Selection-Based Structured Reasoning: Toward Efficient Multimodal Search Agents
Apple Machine Learning Research 1 week ago 35
Selection-based Structured Reasoning (SSR) reframes multimodal agent reasoning from freeform text generation into a selection task to reduce unhelpful long reasoning and its inference cost. At each turn, the model picks from reusable natural-language reasoning candidates rather than writing reasoning from scratch. This change makes agent action steps rely on structured, pre-specified reasoning options instead of open-ended deliberation.