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most citedThink Then Embed: Generative Context Improves Multimodal Embedding

2 citations · 2 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

cs.LG2026

MoEMB: Scaling Universal Multimodal Embeddings with Efficient Mixture-of-Experts Models

Xuanming Cui, Shlok Kumar Mishra, Wentao Bao +6

Universal multimodal embedding (UME) increasingly demands encoder's capacity for handling a broad range of tasks and modalities with increased complexity. Prior scaling methods eit…

cs.AI2026

SVR-R1: Bootstrapping Multi-modal Reasoning with Self-verification in Reinforcement Learning

Mingyuan Wu, Jingcheng Yang, Shengyi Qian +11

We introduce Self-Verified Reasoner (SVR-R1), a multi-turn RL framework that turns a model's own verification into a learning signal for multimodal reasoning. For each query, the m…

cs.CV2026

RepFusion: Leveraging Multimodal Priors for Denoising in Representation Space

Xichen Pan, Aashu Singh, Satya Narayan Shukla +3

Large language models (LLMs) are widely used in text-to-image (T2I) systems, but they are typically limited to text encoding, while denoising is handled by newly trained generative…

cs.CL2026

Detecting AI-Generated Content on Social Media with Multi-modal Language Models

Chenyang Yang, Shen Yan, Yibo Yang +13

Generative AI has enabled the creation of photorealistic images and videos that are increasingly disseminated on social media, often used for spam, misinformation, manipulation, an…

cs.CV2026

An Attribute-Based Measure of Video Complexity

Aditya Sarkar, Yi Li, Zihao Wang +8

A new framework for the estimation of the complexity posed by video-question pairs to video-LLMs, Video Attribute-Based Complexity (VideoABC), is proposed. Video complexity is defi…

cs.IR2026

Verifiable Reasoning for LLM-based Generative Recommendation

Xinyu Lin, Hanqing Zeng, Hanchao Yu +8

Reasoning in Large Language Models (LLMs) has recently shown strong potential in enhancing generative recommendation through deep understanding of complex user preference. Existing…

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.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.AI2026

Socratic Students: Teaching Language Models to Learn by Asking Questions

Rajeev Bhatt Ambati, Tianyi Niu, Aashu Singh +3

Large language Models (LLMs) are usually used to answer questions, but many high-stakes applications (e.g., tutoring, clinical support) require the complementary skill of asking qu…

cs.CL2025

RESTRAIN: From Spurious Votes to Signals -- Self-Driven RL with Self-Penalization

Zhaoning Yu, Will Su, Leitian Tao +9

Reinforcement learning with human-annotated data has boosted chain-of-thought reasoning in large reasoning models, but these gains come at high costs in labeled data while falterin…

cs.AI2025★ 2 cited

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.CV2025

StreamMem: Query-Agnostic KV Cache Memory for Streaming Video Understanding

Yanlai Yang, Zhuokai Zhao, Satya Narayan Shukla +4

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have made significant progress in visual-language reasoning, but their ability to efficiently handle long videos remains limited. Despite r…

cs.IR2025

Optimizing Recall or Relevance? A Multi-Task Multi-Head Approach for Item-to-Item Retrieval in Recommendation

Jiang Zhang, Sumit Kumar, Wei Chang +7

The task of item-to-item (I2I) retrieval is to identify a set of relevant and highly engaging items based on a given trigger item. It is a crucial component in modern recommendatio…

cs.CV2025

Transfer between Modalities with MetaQueries

Xichen Pan, Satya Narayan Shukla, Aashu Singh +9

Unified multimodal models aim to integrate understanding (text output) and generation (pixel output), but aligning these different modalities within a single architecture often dem…

cs.CV2024

CompCap: Improving Multimodal Large Language Models with Composite Captions

Xiaohui Chen, Satya Narayan Shukla, Mahmoud Azab +8

How well can Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) understand composite images? Composite images (CIs) are synthetic visuals created by merging multiple visual elements, such as…