Selection-Based Structured Reasoning: Toward Efficient Multimodal Search Agents
arXiv:2610.01892v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Multimodal agents commonly generate free-form reasoning before each action. For small models, limited model capacity can result in lengthy reasoning that provides little useful guidance for action generation while incurring substantial inference cost. To address this challenge, we introduce Selection-based Structured Reasoning (SSR), a framework that reformulates reasoning as selection instead of open-ended generation. SSR represents rec…