THE MECHANISM
Attention, action chunks, and compression
03Attention asks “what matters now?”
→04Chunks make short-horizon commitments
→05Compression is practical, not cosmetic
FAILURE → REPAIR
Common trap
“Action tokens make robotics identical to language modeling.”
Better model
The physical loop still has deadlines, continuous dynamics, safety constraints, and embodiment-specific action spaces.
YOUR NEXT GATE
Choose a chunk horizon
- 1Measure your control frequency.
- 2Estimate how long one chunk lasts in real time.
- 3List one disturbance the robot should react to sooner than that.