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Omni-Embed-Mini: Binding Modalities Without Forgetting via Dense Distillation
Mohammed Irfan Kurpath, Jaseel Muhammad Kaithakkodan, Sahal Shaji Mullappilly +2
Extending a text embedding model to new modalities typically degrades text retrieval quality, and existing omni-modal embedders compensate with multi-billion parameters. We present…
Hard Vision, Easy Vision: What GPT-6 Astra Reveals Across Computer Vision
Hanoona Rasheed, Mohammed Irfan Kurpath, Bin Ren +3
Frontier general-purpose systems are rapidly expanding beyond visual understanding into capabilities traditionally handled by dedicated computer-vision models. As these capabilitie…
MAviS: A Multimodal Conversational Assistant For Avian Species
Yevheniia Kryklyvets, Mohammed Irfan Kurpath, Sahal Shaji Mullappilly +5
Fine-grained understanding and species-specific multimodal question answering are vital for advancing biodiversity conservation and ecological monitoring. However, existing multimo…
MediX-R1: Open Ended Medical Reinforcement Learning
Sahal Shaji Mullappilly, Mohammed Irfan Kurpath, Omair Mohamed +5
We introduce MediX-R1, an open-ended Reinforcement Learning (RL) framework for medical multimodal large language models (MLLMs) that enables clinically grounded, free-form answers…