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Multimodal embedding models have been crucial in enabling various downstream tasks such as semantic similarity, information retrieval, and clustering over different modalities. However, existing multimodal embeddings like VLM2Vec, E5-V, GME…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Rui Meng , Ziyan Jiang , Ye Liu , Mingyi Su , Xinyi Yang , Yuepeng Fu , Can Qin , Zeyuan Chen , Ran Xu , Caiming Xiong , Yingbo Zhou , Wenhu Chen , Semih Yavuz

Prevailing Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) encode the input image(s) as vision tokens and feed them into the language backbone, similar to how Large Language Models (LLMs) process the text tokens. However, the number of vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Shiyu Zhao , Zhenting Wang , Felix Juefei-Xu , Xide Xia , Miao Liu , Xiaofang Wang , Mingfu Liang , Ning Zhang , Dimitris N. Metaxas , Licheng Yu

Multimodal retrieval systems typically employ Vision Language Models (VLMs) that encode images and text independently into vectors within a shared embedding space. Despite incorporating text encoders, VLMs consistently underperform…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Xinyuan Zhang , Lina Zhang , Lisung Chen , Guangyao Liu , Shuai Nie , Jiaming Xu , Runyu Shi , Ying Huang , Guoquan Zhang

Current vision-language models (VLMs) still exhibit inferior performance on knowledge-intensive tasks, primarily due to the challenge of accurately encoding all the associations between visual objects and scenes to their corresponding…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Jingyuan Qi , Zhiyang Xu , Rulin Shao , Yang Chen , Jin Di , Yu Cheng , Qifan Wang , Lifu Huang

Recently embedding-based retrieval or dense retrieval have shown state of the art results, compared with traditional sparse or bag-of-words based approaches. This paper introduces a model-agnostic doc-level embedding framework through large…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Mingrui Wu , Sheng Cao

This paper presents a zero-shot system for fact-checked claim retrieval. We employed several state-of-the-art large language models to obtain text embeddings. The models were then combined to obtain the best possible result. Our approach…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Ladislav Lenc , Daniel Cífka , Jiří Martínek , Jakub Šmíd , Pavel Král

Neural information retrieval (IR) has greatly advanced search and other knowledge-intensive language tasks. While many neural IR methods encode queries and documents into single-vector representations, late interaction models produce…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Keshav Santhanam , Omar Khattab , Jon Saad-Falcon , Christopher Potts , Matei Zaharia

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated exceptional proficiency in text understanding and embedding tasks. However, their potential in multimodal representation, particularly for item-to-item (I2I) recommendations, remains…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Chao Zhang , Haoxin Zhang , Shiwei Wu , Di Wu , Tong Xu , Xiangyu Zhao , Yan Gao , Yao Hu , Enhong Chen

Visual document understanding typically requires separate retrieval and generation models, doubling memory and system complexity. We present Hydra, a dual-head approach that provides both ColBERT-style late-interaction retrieval and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Athos Georgiou

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have driven interest in billion-scale retrieval models with strong generalization across retrieval tasks and languages. Additionally, progress in large vision-language models has created…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Xueguang Ma , Luyu Gao , Shengyao Zhuang , Jiaqi Samantha Zhan , Jamie Callan , Jimmy Lin

Multi-vector representations generated by late interaction models, such as ColBERT, enable superior retrieval quality compared to single-vector representations in information retrieval applications. In multi-vector retrieval systems, both…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Elias Jääsaari , Ville Hyvönen , Teemu Roos

Traditional information extraction systems face challenges with text only language models as it does not consider infographics (visual elements of information) such as tables, charts, images etc. often used to convey complex information to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Rachna Saxena , Abhijeet Kumar , Suresh Shanmugam

Modern video retrieval systems are expected to handle diverse tasks ranging from corpus-level retrieval, fine-grained moment localization to flexible multimodal querying. Specialized architectures achieve strong retrieval performance by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Shaunak Halbe , Bhagyashree Puranik , Jayakrishnan Unnikrishnan , Kushan Thakkar , Vimal Bhat , Toufiq Parag

Video Large Language Models (VideoLLMs) excel at video understanding tasks where outputs are textual, such as Video Question Answering and Video Captioning. However, they underperform specialized embedding-based models in Retrieval tasks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Rohit Gupta , Jayakrishnan Unnikrishnan , Fan Fei , Sheng Liu , Son Tran , Mubarak Shah

We introduce jina-embeddings-v4, a 3.8 billion parameter multimodal embedding model that unifies text and image representations through a novel architecture supporting both single-vector and multi-vector embeddings in the late interaction…

LLMs confront inherent limitations in terms of its knowledge, memory, and action. The retrieval augmentation stands as a vital mechanism to address these limitations, which brings in useful information from external sources to augment the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Peitian Zhang , Shitao Xiao , Zheng Liu , Zhicheng Dou , Jian-Yun Nie

Cross-modal retrieval is gaining increasing efficacy and interest from the research community, thanks to large-scale training, novel architectural and learning designs, and its application in LLMs and multimodal LLMs. In this paper, we move…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Davide Caffagni , Sara Sarto , Marcella Cornia , Lorenzo Baraldi , Rita Cucchiara

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable efficacy in text embedding, yet current adaptation methods like LoRA face significant bottlenecks in computational efficiency and cross-architecture transferability. Whenever a new…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Yu-Che Tsai , Kuan-Yu Chen , Yuan-Hao Chen , Yu-Han Chang , Ching-Yu Tsai , Yu-Hsiang Chuang , Shou-De Lin

Text embedding models have been popular for information retrieval applications such as semantic search and Question-Answering systems based on Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). Those models are typically Transformer models that are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Gabriel de Souza P. Moreira , Radek Osmulski , Mengyao Xu , Ronay Ak , Benedikt Schifferer , Even Oldridge

Large Language Models (LLMs) have swiftly emerged as vital resources for different applications in the biomedical and healthcare domains; however, these models encounter issues such as generating inaccurate information or hallucinations.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Mingchen Li , Halil Kilicoglu , Hua Xu , Rui Zhang