Reusable reasoning choices make multimodal search agents substantially faster

SSR replaces free-form deliberation with parallel scoring of predefined reasoning candidates, preserving task performance while cutting inference latency.

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Feiyu Gavin Zhu · Xiaoyu Zhu · Jiqi Yang · Rui Yang · Arnab Kumar Mondal · Yancheng Wang · +6 more

Apple · Carnegie Mellon University

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The authors built a library of high-level reasoning candidates for recurring search situations, such as recognizing that an entity is known but a requested attribute still needs to be found.

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From Apple and Carnegie Mellon University

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Selection-based Structured Reasoning replaces freeform reasoning with selection from pre-specified candidates, cutting reasoning latency by over 90%.

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