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arxiv: 2602.18109 · v2 · submitted 2026-02-20 · 💻 cs.LG · cs.OS· cs.SY· eess.SY

TempoNet: Slack-Quantized Transformer-Guided Reinforcement Scheduler for Adaptive Deadline-Centric Real-Time Dispatchs

Rong Fu , Yibo Meng , Guangzhen Yao , Jiaxuan Lu , Zeyu Zhang , Zhaolu Kang , Ziming Guo , Jia Yee Tan
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Xiaojing Du Simon James Fong
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keywords real-time schedulingreinforcement learningtransformermultiprocessordeadline schedulingq-learningurgency tokenizermixed-criticality
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TempoNet uses a slack-quantized Transformer to improve deadline fulfillment in real-time multiprocessor scheduling over analytic and neural methods.

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The paper presents TempoNet as a reinforcement learning scheduler that combines a permutation-invariant Transformer with deep Q-approximation for handling tight deadlines under compute limits. An Urgency Tokenizer discretizes temporal slack into learnable embeddings to help the model track how close tasks are to missing deadlines and stabilize learning. This pairs with a sparse attention mechanism for efficient reasoning over unordered task sets and a mapping layer that turns Q-scores into processor assignments. Evaluations on industrial mixed-criticality traces and large multiprocessor setups show better deadline meeting rates and more stable training than traditional schedulers or other neural approaches. A reader would care because real-time systems in industry often face complex workloads where missing deadlines has high costs, and this offers a fast, scalable neural alternative.

Core claim

TempoNet pairs a permutation-invariant Transformer with a deep Q-approximation for real-time scheduling. The Urgency Tokenizer discretizes temporal slack into learnable embeddings that stabilize value learning and capture deadline proximity. A latency-aware sparse attention stack with blockwise top-k selection and locality-sensitive chunking supports global reasoning over unordered task sets at near-linear scaling and sub-millisecond inference. A multicore mapping layer converts the Q-scores into processor assignments using masked-greedy selection or differentiable matching. On industrial mixed-criticality traces and large multiprocessor settings this yields consistent gains in deadline-fulf

What carries the argument

The Urgency Tokenizer that discretizes temporal slack into learnable embeddings to stabilize value learning and capture deadline proximity within the Transformer-guided Q-approximation.

If this is right

  • Consistent gains in deadline fulfillment appear on industrial mixed-criticality traces and large multiprocessor settings.
  • Optimization stability improves compared with prior neural baselines.
  • Inference scales near-linearly and stays under one millisecond for large task sets.
  • Behavioral-cloning pretraining delivers sample-efficiency gains while preserving inference speed.
  • The same pipeline works with an actor-critic variant without modification.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The attention patterns could be inspected at runtime to surface which tasks most influence current assignments.
  • The approach might transfer to other permutation-invariant resource problems such as dynamic packet scheduling or cloud job placement.
  • Hybrid systems could combine this learned scheduler with classical analytic fallbacks for safety-critical edges.
  • Pretraining on expert traces suggests the method could learn from existing real-time OS heuristics without full retraining.

Load-bearing premise

Discretizing temporal slack into learnable embeddings will stabilize value learning and reliably capture deadline proximity across varied workload mixes and processor counts.

What would settle it

If new evaluations on industrial traces with higher slack variability or larger processor counts show no improvement or worse deadline fulfillment than analytic schedulers and neural baselines, the performance claim would be falsified.

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Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2602.18109 by Guangzhen Yao, Jiaxuan Lu, Jia Yee Tan, Rong Fu, Simon James Fong, Xiaojing Du, Yibo Meng, Zeyu Zhang, Zhaolu Kang, Ziming Guo.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Overview of the TempoNet architecture for adaptive deadline-centric real-time dispatching. The pipeline initiates with the Urgency Tokenizer (UT), which transforms continuous per-job slack si(t) into a discrete vocabulary via Slack Quantization (clip and floor) and retrieves learned Urgency Tokens xi(t) from an embedding matrix E. These tokens are gathered into a Token Assembly matrix X(t), maintaining per… view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Attention-Criticality Correlation Analysis [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Attention Focus Distribution Across Tasks heatmap [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Computational Time Scaling with System Size [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Entropy Distribution Across Transformer Layers [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Distribution of Q-Values Across Utilization Levels [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Embedding Dimension Performance–Computation Tradeoff [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_7.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Miss rate comparison between EDF empirical, TempoNet, and the utilization-based reference [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p029_8.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 9. Figure 9: Real-time boundary: synthetic inference latency versus number of active tasks [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p032_9.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 10. Figure 10: Hyperparameter sensitivity: filled contour of synthetic deadline compliance versus slack bin width [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p033_10.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 11. Figure 11: Comparative convergence of standard ϵ-greedy and the enhanced uncertainty-based exploration on heteroge￾neous workloads. The enhanced strategy converges faster and attains slightly higher final performance. P.1 Actor–Critic extension The per-token outputs produced by TempoNet provide a natural scaffold for an actor–critic agent. Concretely, the shared encoder remains unchanged and two lightweight heads ar… view at source ↗
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Figure 12. Figure 12: Probability of selection conditioned on quantized slack and normalized remaining execution. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p043_12.png] view at source ↗
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Real-time schedulers must reason about tight deadlines under strict compute budgets. We present TempoNet, a reinforcement learning scheduler that pairs a permutation-invariant Transformer with a deep Q-approximation. An Urgency Tokenizer discretizes temporal slack into learnable embeddings, stabilizing value learning and capturing deadline proximity. A latency-aware sparse attention stack with blockwise top-k selection and locality-sensitive chunking enables global reasoning over unordered task sets with near-linear scaling and sub-millisecond inference. A multicore mapping layer converts contextualized Q-scores into processor assignments through masked-greedy selection or differentiable matching. Extensive evaluations on industrial mixed-criticality traces and large multiprocessor settings show consistent gains in deadline fulfillment over analytic schedulers and neural baselines, together with improved optimization stability. Diagnostics include sensitivity analyses for slack quantization, attention-driven policy interpretation, hardware-in-the-loop and kernel micro-benchmarks, and robustness under stress with simple runtime mitigations; we also report sample-efficiency benefits from behavioral-cloning pretraining and compatibility with an actor-critic variant without altering the inference pipeline. These results establish a practical framework for Transformer-based decision making in high-throughput real-time scheduling.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript presents TempoNet, a reinforcement learning scheduler that integrates a permutation-invariant Transformer with deep Q-approximation for real-time task dispatch. It introduces an Urgency Tokenizer to discretize temporal slack into learnable embeddings, a latency-aware sparse attention mechanism with blockwise top-k selection for efficient global reasoning over unordered task sets, and a multicore mapping layer using masked-greedy or differentiable assignment. The central claim is that this pipeline delivers consistent gains in deadline fulfillment on industrial mixed-criticality traces and large multiprocessor settings relative to analytic schedulers and neural baselines, while improving optimization stability, with sub-millisecond inference and supporting diagnostics on slack quantization sensitivity, attention interpretability, hardware-in-the-loop benchmarks, and behavioral-cloning pretraining.

Significance. If the empirical results hold under the reported conditions, the work supplies a practical, scalable framework for incorporating Transformer-based decision making into high-throughput real-time systems. The explicit sensitivity analyses, hardware-in-the-loop evaluation, and pretraining compatibility strengthen the contribution beyond a single benchmark comparison.

major comments (1)
  1. [§4] §4 (Evaluation): The central claim of 'consistent gains' and 'improved optimization stability' rests on the full pipeline (Transformer + Urgency Tokenizer + sparse attention). The manuscript reports sensitivity analyses for slack quantization, but it is unclear whether the chosen quantization levels were fixed before seeing test-set performance or selected to maximize the reported deadline-fulfillment metric; an explicit statement of the selection protocol and a hold-out validation set would be required to rule out post-hoc fitting.
minor comments (3)
  1. [Title] Title: 'Dispatchs' is a typographical error and should read 'Dispatches'.
  2. [Abstract] Abstract: The sentence describing the multicore mapping layer is long and could be split for clarity; the parenthetical list of diagnostics also mixes methods and results.
  3. [§3.4] Notation: The distinction between 'masked-greedy selection' and 'differentiable matching' in the mapping layer should be given explicit equations or pseudocode in §3.4 to avoid ambiguity when readers attempt to re-implement the inference pipeline.

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We thank the referee for the constructive comments and for recognizing the practical value of TempoNet for Transformer-based real-time scheduling. We address the single major comment below and will incorporate the requested clarifications.

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  1. Referee: [§4] §4 (Evaluation): The central claim of 'consistent gains' and 'improved optimization stability' rests on the full pipeline (Transformer + Urgency Tokenizer + sparse attention). The manuscript reports sensitivity analyses for slack quantization, but it is unclear whether the chosen quantization levels were fixed before seeing test-set performance or selected to maximize the reported deadline-fulfillment metric; an explicit statement of the selection protocol and a hold-out validation set would be required to rule out post-hoc fitting.

    Authors: We agree that an explicit description of the quantization-level selection protocol is necessary to substantiate the central claims. The levels were fixed in advance using domain knowledge from real-time systems literature on slack distributions together with cross-validation performed on a dedicated hold-out subset of the industrial traces; this subset was never used for final test-set evaluation or metric maximization. To eliminate any ambiguity we will revise §4 to state the protocol in full, including the hold-out validation procedure and the rationale for the chosen discretization. This change will directly address the concern about post-hoc fitting while preserving the reported results. revision: yes

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full rationale

The manuscript presents TempoNet as an empirical RL scheduler combining a permutation-invariant Transformer, Urgency Tokenizer for slack discretization, sparse attention, and multicore mapping. All load-bearing claims rest on external evaluations against industrial traces, analytic baselines, and neural comparators, with explicit sensitivity analyses, hardware-in-the-loop benchmarks, and behavioral-cloning diagnostics reported. No equations, self-definitional reductions, fitted-input predictions, or self-citation chains that collapse the central result to its own inputs are present in the provided text. The derivation is therefore self-contained against external benchmarks.

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    purpose: Discretizes temporal slack into learnable embeddings to stabilize value learning
    Presented as a core new module in the abstract; no external validation or falsifiable prediction supplied.

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