2 papers
cs.IR2026
Douyin Multimodal Embedding Model Technical Report
Haonan Chen, Chu Li, Zhicheng Wang +4
Multimodal representation learning is a cornerstone of modern AI. By encoding multimodal queries and targets into vectors, it powers industrial search and recommendation and underp…
cs.LG2026
Bottleneck Tokens for Unified Multimodal Retrieval
Siyu Sun, Jing Ren, Zhaohe Liao +8
Adapting decoder-only multimodal large language models (MLLMs) for unified multimodal retrieval faces two structural gaps. First, existing methods rely on implicit pooling, which o…