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Selection-Based Structured Reasoning: Toward Efficient Multimodal Search Agents

Our short summary of Apple’s engineering write-up. The full story, with all the detail, is on their blog.

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Problem

Long, costly reasoning slowed multimodal search agents.

Solution

They replaced freeform reasoning with a set of reusable reasoning options and let the model pick the best one, scoring all options in parallel.

Per‑turn latency dropped 90%, overall inference latency 28–54% faster

Want the architecture, code and numbers? They’re in the original post.

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