arXiv Machine Learning

Reconstructing Content with Collaborative Attention for Universal Multimodal Representation Learning

arXiv:2603. 01471v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Multimodal embedding models, rooted in multimodal large language models (MLLMs), have yielded significant performance improvements across diverse tasks such as retrieval and classification.

arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 2

Reconstructing Content via Collaborative Attention to Improve Multimodal Embedding Quality

arXiv:2603. 01471v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Multimodal embedding models, rooted in multimodal large language models (MLLMs), have yielded significant performance improvements across diverse tasks such as retrieval and classification.

By Jiahan Chen, Da Li, Hengran Zhang, Yinqiong Cai, Lixin Su, Jiafeng Guo, Daiting Shi, Dawei Yin, Keping Bi

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arXiv AI

Jul 21

LookME: Lookup-Based Multimodal Embeddings for Layer Injection in Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2607. 16305v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have achieved strong progress in multimodal understanding.

By Zeyu Xu, Xingzhong Hou, Pengkai Guo, Siling Lin, Xiao Xu, Menghua Zhai, Haoyu Chen, Yunke Zhang, Fei Huang

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arXiv AI

Jun 26

Semantic Generative Tuning for Unified Multimodal Models

arXiv:2605. 18714v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Unified multimodal models (UMMs) strive to consolidate visual understanding and visual generation within a single architecture.

By Songsong Yu, Yuxin Chen, Ying Shan, Yanwei Li

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arXiv Machine Learning

1d ago

FuseLIP: Multimodal Embeddings via Early Fusion of Discrete Tokens

arXiv:2506. 03096v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Contrastive language-image pre-training aligns features of text-image pairs in a common latent space via distinct encoders for each modality.

By Christian Schlarmann, Francesco Croce, Nicolas Flammarion, Matthias Hein

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arXiv AI

Jun 12

HYDRA-X: Native Unified Multimodal Models with Holistic Visual Tokenizers

arXiv:2606. 13289v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Holistic visual tokenizers are fundamental to unified multimodal models (UMMs) as they map diverse visual inputs into a unified representation space.

By Guozhen Zhang, Xuerui Qiu, Yutao Cui, Tianhui Song, Changlin Li, Junzhe Li, Tao Huang, Xiao Zhang, Yang Li, Jianbing Wu, Miles Yang, Zhao Zhong, Liefeng Bo, Limin Wang

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arXiv AI

Jul 21

Learning to Detect Cross-Modal Negation: An Analysis of Latent Representations and an Attention-Based Solution

arXiv:2607. 17712v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Detecting high-level semantic concepts like negation across modalities remains a challenge for current multimodal systems.

By Ali AbuSaleh, Leon Hammerla, Alexander Mehler

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arXiv AI

Aug 10

Learning to Predict Middle-Layer Attention in MLLMs for Visual Token Prunin

arXiv:2608. 06411v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) achieve strong performance across diverse vision-language tasks, but their efficiency is limited by the cost of processing numerous visual tokens.

By Yuyao Sun, Tao Deng, Shuang Li, Deqing Wang, Hao Geng, Minjun Yu

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arXiv AI

Jun 16

Token Reduction Should Go Beyond Efficiency in Generative Models -- From Vision, Language to Multimodality

arXiv:2505. 18227v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In Transformer architectures, tokens\textemdash discrete units derived from raw data\textemdash are formed by segmenting inputs into fixed-length chunks.

By Zhenglun Kong, Yize Li, Fanhu Zeng, Lei Xin, Shvat Messica, Xue Lin, Pu Zhao, Manolis Kellis, Hao Tang, Marinka Zitnik

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arXiv AI

Jun 8

Modality Gap-Driven Subspace Alignment Training Paradigm For Multimodal Large Language Models

arXiv:2602. 07026v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Despite the success of multimodal contrastive learning in aligning visual and linguistic representations, a persistent geometric anomaly, the Modality Gap, remains: embeddings of distinct modalities expressing identical semantics occupy systematically offset regions.

By Xiaomin Yu, Yi Xin, Yuhui Zhang, Wenjie Zhang, Chonghan Liu, Hanzhen Zhao, Chen Liu, Xiaoxing Hu, Ziyue Qiao, Hao Tang, Xiaobin Hu, Chengwei Qin, Hui Xiong, Yu Qiao, Shuicheng Yan

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arXiv AI

Jun 8

MACS: Modality-Aware Capacity Scaling for Efficient Multimodal MoE Inference

arXiv:2605. 05225v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Mixture-of-Experts Multimodal Large Language Models (MoE MLLMs) suffer from a significant efficiency bottleneck during Expert Parallelism (EP) inference due to the straggler effect.

By Bo Li, Chuan Wu, Shaolin Zhu

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arXiv AI

Jun 16

MMLongEmbed: Benchmarking Multimodal Embedding Models in Long-Context Scenarios

arXiv:2606. 14747v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advancements have significantly expanded the theoretical context windows of Multimodal Embedding Models (MEMs).

By Haitian Wang, Ruoxi Sun, Quantong Qiu, Juntao Li, Junhui Li, Hua Chen, Jinxiong Chang, Min Zhang

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arXiv AI

Jul 28

Disentangling Semantic Attention from Structural Bias in the Attention Manifold

arXiv:2607. 24017v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The empirical success of attention mechanism in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) often obscures its inherent, subtle flaws.

By Pengkun Jiao, Bin Zhu, Jingjing Chen, Yu-gang Jiang

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