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New PACE framework accelerates embodied AI planning by interleaving reasoning and execution

Researchers have developed PACE (Planning with Adaptive Cognitive Effort), a new framework designed to make reasoning-enhanced large language models more practical for embodied systems by addressing prohibitive inference delays. PACE introduces an Interleaved Think-Act architecture that allows reasoning and action execution to occur concurrently, alongside a Dynamic Budget Allocator that adjusts reasoning token budgets based on available execution time. Tested on the Robotouille benchmark with the Qwen3-8B-AWQ model, PACE demonstrated a 67% improvement in success rate over the ReAct+Think baseline and achieved a 6.9x acceleration in thinking time, effectively hiding 66.8% of thinking time within execution windows. AI

IMPACT Enables reasoning models to operate in latency-sensitive embodied domains, potentially accelerating robotics and real-world AI applications.

RANK_REASON The cluster contains an academic paper detailing a new framework and methodology for AI planning. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Yuchen Huang, Xijiang Ying, Zhenhua Ma, Xiaxiang Yuan, Zhijie Gao, Jiayi Huang, Ruichi Mao, Jiazheng Zhang, Hongsheng Ti, Maotao Tian, Rong Shi, Lu Zhao, Shizhuang Zhang, Zhuo Cui, He Wang, Ling Liu, Wei Zhang ·

    PACE: Adaptive Budget Allocation for Time-Efficient Embodied Planning

    arXiv:2608.03034v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reasoning-enhanced large language models have achieved remarkable improvements in planning tasks, yet their deployment in embodied systems remains impractical due to prohibitive inference delays-often exceeding minutes per plannin…