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BYPASSING INFERENCE BOTTLENECKS WITH RETRIEVE-FOR-TRAIN

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Search systems often need a useful set, not ten versions of the same result. They can ask an AI to explore several angles, but generating those searches one by one is slow and expensive. Retrieve-for-Train teaches a smaller model the exploration strategy ahead of time, letting it produce complementary searches together. Google reports broader result coverage with 12-20x lower query-generation latency.