3 papers
cs.CV2026
CubistMerge: Spatial-Preserving Token Merging For Diverse ViT Backbones
Wenyi Gong, Mieszko Lis
Many modern ViT backbones adopt spatial architectural designs, such as window attention, decomposed relative positional embeddings in SAM, and RoPE in DINOv3. Such architectures im…
cs.CL2026
Reranker Optimization via Geodesic Distances on k-NN Manifolds
Wen G. Gong
Current neural reranking approaches for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) rely on cross-encoders or large language models (LLMs), requiring substantial computational resources a…
cs.CL2025
Benchmarking Cross-Lingual Semantic Alignment in Multilingual Embeddings
Wen G. Gong
With hundreds of multilingual embedding models available, practitioners lack clear guidance on which provide genuine cross-lingual semantic alignment versus task performance throug…