arXiv:2601. 20844v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: This paper studies the Minimal Embeddable Dimension (MED): the least dimension in which there exists a configuration of $m$ object vectors so that every subset of size at most $k$ is exactly retrieved by score comparison.
By Zihao Wang, Hang Yin, Lihui Liu, Hanghang Tong, Yangqiu Song, Ginny Wong, Simon See
arXiv:2608.22980v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Dense vector retrieval has become the foundation of modern semantic search, yet existing approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) indexes treat an embeddin...
By Kishore Konda
arXiv:2504. 16318v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Cosine similarity is a standard comparison rule for learned representations in information retrieval, natural language processing, computer vision, and multimodal learning.
By Kisung You
arXiv:2602. 07739v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Embedding geometry plays a fundamental role in retrieval quality, yet dense retrievers for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) remain largely confined to Euclidean space.
By Hiren Madhu, Ngoc Bui, Ali Maatouk, Leandros Tassiulas, Smita Krishnaswamy, Menglin Yang, Sukanta Ganguly, Kiran Srinivasan, Rex Ying
arXiv:2609.06663v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Although multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) excel in diverse tasks, their scalability remains limited by the memory and computational overhead...
By Chin Ting Hsu, Yu-Syuan Xu, Ling Zou, Hsien-Kai Kuo, Wen-Huang Cheng
arXiv:2609.39836v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Contrastive vision-language models map visual and textual representations into a shared normalized embedding space, making cosine similarity the natura...
By Simone Ricci, Niccol\`o Biondi, Federico Pernici
arXiv:2606. 30625v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Contrastive embedding models trained with scale-invariant losses are typically paired with distance metrics like cosine similarity, effectively ignoring embedding magnitudes.
By Ziwei Su, Junyu Ren, Victor Veitch
arXiv:2606. 04603v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Approximate Nearest Neighbour search indices form the backbone of real-world recommender systems, enabling real-time candidate retrieval over million-item catalogues.
By Olivier Jeunen
arXiv:2604. 11539v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Human perception of visual similarity is inherently adaptive and subjective, depending on the users' interests and focus.
By Sohwi Lim, Lee Hyoseok, Jungjoon Park, Tae-Hyun Oh
The paper reviews 50 image augmentation and generation techniques, categorizing them into ten groups, and conducts a large‑scale empirical study to assess their effectiveness as test generators for embedding‑based image retrieval systems. Using Amazon Titan and OpenCLIP embeddings, the authors evaluate the techniques across four dimensions—embedding‑space similarity, embedding uncertainty, semantic realism, and retrieval failure rate—on CIFAR‑10, ImageNet‑1K, and an industrial dataset. Results show that weather simulation and SaSPA yield the highest uncertainty and failure rates while maintaining realistic visuals, whereas GAN‑based methods produce low realism due to synthetic artifacts.
By Yehan De Silva, Anirudh Sridhar, Armin Lotfy, Nafiseh Kahani, Yvan Labiche, Ziyu Wang, Frank Ouyang, Clare Carty, Azalia Shamsaei
WIDE: Wildcard Inference with Dynamic Expansion for Cross-Modal Generative Retrieval proposes a new approach to address information asymmetry in cross-modal retrieval. The method introduces Adaptive Entropy Thresholding to calibrate uncertainty, Asymmetry-aware Wildcard Decoding to emit wildcards instead of forced identifiers, and Blind-Spot Re-ranking to evaluate expanded candidates. Experiments on the M-BEIR benchmark show that WIDE outperforms existing generative retrieval methods by reducing forced hallucination while keeping index structures compact.
By Teng Guo, Xin Wang, Jiayou Xu, Keying Zhou, Jifeng Shen, Haoxin Ruan
arXiv:2506. 08774v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Different machine learning models can represent the same underlying concept in different ways.
By Fan Xu, Luis A. Leiva