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7 papers

cs.CV2026

Xray-Visual Models: Scaling Vision models on Industry Scale Data

Shlok Mishra, Tsung-Yu Lin, Linda Wang +24

We present Xray-Visual, a unified vision model architecture for large-scale image and video understanding trained on industry-scale social media data. Our model leverages over 15 b…

cs.IR2026

Principled Synthetic Data Enables the First Scaling Laws for LLMs in Recommendation

Benyu Zhang, Qiang Zhang, Jianpeng Cheng +10

Large Language Models (LLMs) represent a promising frontier for recommender systems, yet their development has been impeded by the absence of predictable scaling laws, which are cr…

cs.CV2026

Unifying Contrastive and Generative Objectives for Visual Understanding and Text-to-Image Generation

Chao Li, Tianhong Li, Sai Vidyaranya Nuthalapati +9

Unifying text-image contrastive learning and text-to-image (T2I) generation in a single end-to-end model is challenging because the two objectives demand opposing masking regimes:…

cs.AI2026

Think Then Embed: Generative Context Improves Multimodal Embedding

Xuanming Cui, Jianpeng Cheng, Hong-you Chen +11

There is a growing interest in Universal Multimodal Embeddings (UME), where models are required to generate task-specific representations. While recent studies show that Multimodal…

cs.IR2025

Reason to Contrast: A Cascaded Multimodal Retrieval Framework

Xuanming Cui, Hong-You Chen, Hao Yu +10

Traditional multimodal retrieval systems rely primarily on bi-encoder architectures, where performance is closely tied to embedding dimensionality. Recent work, Think-Then-Embed (T…

cs.AR2025

A Systematic Characterization of LLM Inference on GPUs

Haonan Wang, Xuxin Xiao, Mingyu Yan +8

This work presents a systematic characterization of Large Language Model (LLM) inference to address fragmented understanding. Through comprehensive experiments, we establish a four…