# Adaptive Instructed-Retriever: Frontier-Quality Search at 2x Lower Latency

DevFeed: [Adaptive Instructed-Retriever: Frontier-Quality Search at 2x Lower Latency](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/adaptive-instructed-retriever-frontier-quality-search-at-2x-lower-latency-11536.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.databricks.com/blog/adaptive-instructed-retriever-frontier-quality-search-2x-lower-latency>)

Author: Cindy Wang; Cheng Li; Jialu Liu; Sean Kulinski; Arnav Singhvi; Wen Sun; Michael Bendersky

Published: 2026-09-09T13:30:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Databricks](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/databricks.md>)

Topics: [databricks](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/databricks.md>), [Latency](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/latency.md>), [Low Latency](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/low-latency.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>)

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## AI overview

Databricks introduces Adaptive Instructed-Retriever, a retrieval model that combines fast parallel search with sequential multi-step search for harder enterprise queries. It adaptively spends extra computation only when useful, achieving comparable quality to leading third-party models at twice lower latency while improving over single-step retrieval on reported benchmarks.

## Source excerpt

Effective enterprise data agents require search that is both accurate and fast. Earlier...