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7 papers

cs.CV2026

A Mixed Diet Makes DINO An Omnivorous Vision Encoder

Rishabh Kabra, Maks Ovsjanikov, Drew A. Hudson +5

Pre-trained vision encoders like DINOv2 have demonstrated exceptional performance on unimodal tasks. However, we observe that their features are poorly aligned across different vis…

cs.CV2026

TIPSv2: Advancing Vision-Language Pretraining with Enhanced Patch-Text Alignment

Bingyi Cao, Koert Chen, Kevis-Kokitsi Maninis +16

Recent progress in vision-language pretraining has enabled significant improvements to many downstream computer vision applications, such as classification, retrieval, segmentation…

cs.CL2025

EmbeddingGemma: Powerful and Lightweight Text Representations

Henrique Schechter Vera, Sahil Dua, Biao Zhang +86

We introduce EmbeddingGemma, a new lightweight, open text embedding model based on the Gemma 3 language model family. Our innovative training recipe strategically captures knowledg…

cs.CV2025

Learning Visual Composition through Improved Semantic Guidance

Austin Stone, Hagen Soltau, Robert Geirhos +6

Visual imagery does not consist of solitary objects, but instead reflects the composition of a multitude of fluid concepts. While there have been great advances in visual represent…

cs.CL2025

Gemini Embedding: Generalizable Embeddings from Gemini

Jinhyuk Lee, Feiyang Chen, Sahil Dua +44

In this report, we introduce Gemini Embedding, a state-of-the-art embedding model leveraging the power of Gemini, Google's most capable large language model. Capitalizing on Gemini…

cs.CV2025

TIPS: Text-Image Pretraining with Spatial awareness

Kevis-Kokitsi Maninis, Kaifeng Chen, Soham Ghosh +11

While image-text representation learning has become very popular in recent years, existing models tend to lack spatial awareness and have limited direct applicability for dense und…