deferred

Definition

Postponed to a later stage rather than handled immediately. In systems it names lazy evaluation — do the work only when the result is actually needed; in machine learning it names abstention pipelines where low-confidence cases are deferred to a human or a stronger model. The trade is latency for accuracy or efficiency. Unlike a rejected input, a deferred one still gets handled by someone.

Explainers using this term

• Paper explained: DEFT-RLVR — show a driving VLM the future trajectory too early and it fabricates its reasoningDeferred Exposure of Future Trajectories for Verifiable Reasoning in Autonomous Driving VLMs