3 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.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.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…