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Engagement Process: Rethinking the Temporal Interface of Action and Observation

Jiahao Zhang, Jialian Li, Jiaming Song, Jie Chen, Junhong Liu, Weiran Guo, Xutao Wang, Yuchen Cao

The Engagement Process decouples actions and observations into independent time streams to handle real-world timing mismatches in agent-environment interactions.

arxiv:2605.11484 v2 · 2026-05-12 · cs.AI

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EP represents actions and observations as decoupled event streams along time, rather than updates paired at fixed decision steps. This interface captures single-agent timing issues such as deliberation latency, delayed feedback, and persistent actions, while supporting richer agent-side organization, multi-rate coordination, and compositional interaction among subsystems.

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That decoupling actions and observations into independent time streams can be practically implemented and optimized in learning settings without the added complexity negating benefits, and that the described experiments sufficiently demonstrate advantages over standard POMDP interfaces.

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Engagement Process decouples actions and observations into separate time-based event streams within a POMDP structure to explicitly model timing mismatches, deliberation latency, and multi-rate interactions.

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arxiv: 2605.11484 · arxiv_version: 2605.11484v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.11484 · pith_short_12: WIZMBBQIQSZ7 · pith_short_16: WIZMBBQIQSZ7VKM2 · pith_short_8: WIZMBBQI

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