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New and improved embedding model

We are excited to announce a new embedding model which is significantly more capable, cost effective, and simpler to use.

arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 4

Towards Universal Tabular Embeddings: A Benchmark Across Data Tasks

The paper introduces TEmBed, a unified benchmark for evaluating tabular embeddings across four representation levels—cell, row, column, and table—using a diverse set of models. It demonstrates that the best model depends on the specific task and representation level, providing practical guidance for selecting embeddings in real-world applications. The study aims to facilitate the development of more general-purpose tabular representation models.

By Liane Vogel, Kavitha Srinivas, Niharika D'Souza, Sola Shirai, Oktie Hassanzadeh, Horst Samulowitz
arXiv Computer Vision
2d ago

Omni-Embed-Mini: Binding Modalities Without Forgetting via Dense Distillation

Omni-Embed-Mini is a 0.9B‑parameter model that embeds text, speech, audio, images, video, and visually‑rich documents into a single shared cosine space without updating any text‑side parameters. It uses a dense cascaded caption as a teacher signal, allowing the teacher and student to share identical backbone weights and requiring only lightweight projectors and phased LoRA adapters for alignment. The model achieves strong text retrieval performance (49.57 nDCG@10 on MTEB‑v2 BEIR‑8) while extending to five additional modalities and is significantly smaller than other open omni‑modal embedders.

By Mohammed Irfan Kurpath, Jaseel Muhammad Kaithakkodan, Sahal Shaji Mullappilly, Ivan Laptev, Hisham Cholakkal
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 16

Multi-modal Knowledge Preserving Adapter for Embedding Backward Compatibility

The paper introduces the Multi-modal Knowledge Preserving Adapter (MKP-Adapter), an adapter-only approach that enables backward compatible training for multi-modal large language models without updating the backbone. It employs a multi-level preservation loss to maintain embedding geometry and a focal re-weighting strategy to focus on difficult samples. Experiments show strong backward compatibility across image, text, visual document, and video retrieval tasks with minimal latency overhead.

By Jaeseok Byun, Gukyeong Kwon, Han-Kai Hsu, Meher Gitika Karumuri, Zhikang Zhang, Hao Yang, Davide Modolo