About Time: When Reinforcement Learning Finally Learns to Wait
Waiting is a decision. That sounds obvious to anyone who has watched a warehouse robot pause at an intersection, a trading system delay execution, or an autonomous vehicle slow down before a pedestrian crossing. In the real world, “do the task” is rarely the whole instruction. The operational instruction is closer to: do the task, in this order, not before this condition, not after that deadline, and preferably without wasting time while pretending that nothing is happening. ...