When to Plan: Learning to Select Between Reactive Control and Deliberative Planning

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Researchers have developed a reinforcement learning method that teaches agents to choose between 'fast' reactive actions and 'slow' deliberative planning. This mimics human meta-reasoning, allowing AI to save compute on easy tasks while deploying heavy thinking only when faced with novel or complex scenarios. It directly addresses the trade-off between execution speed and logical accuracy in autonomous systems.