Frontier models struggle when correct actions must arrive on time

Realtime-Bench shows that inference delays and prolonged reasoning substantially hinder agents in dynamic games and web tasks.

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Jingyu Tang · Xu Yang · Zhehao Zhang · Zheng Wang · Qi Cheng · Haozhe Zhao · +4 more

University of Texas at Austin · The Ohio State University · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · NVIDIA · Northwestern University

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Tang and colleagues evaluate 12 frontier models on 50 interactive tasks where environments keep changing and late actions can fail.

The authors created Realtime-Bench, a collection of 50 dynamic game and web tasks designed to test temporal state awareness, adaptive deliberation and time-aware action selection.

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On dynamic real-time interaction tasks, the best frontier model succeeds only 44% of the time under wall-clock constraints.

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