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7 papers

cs.CL2025

T5Gemma 2: Seeing, Reading, and Understanding Longer

Biao Zhang, Paul Suganthan, Gaël Liu +17

We introduce T5Gemma 2, the next generation of the T5Gemma family of lightweight open encoder-decoder models, featuring strong multilingual, multimodal and long-context capabilitie…

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.IR2025

Harnessing Pairwise Ranking Prompting Through Sample-Efficient Ranking Distillation

Junru Wu, Le Yan, Zhen Qin +6

While Pairwise Ranking Prompting (PRP) with Large Language Models (LLMs) is one of the most effective zero-shot document ranking methods, it has a quadratic computational complexit…

cs.CV2025

Entity Image and Mixed-Modal Image Retrieval Datasets

Cristian-Ioan Blaga, Paul Suganthan, Sahil Dua +6

Despite advances in multimodal learning, challenging benchmarks for mixed-modal image retrieval that combines visual and textual information are lacking. This paper introduces a no…

cs.CL2025

Encoder-Decoder Gemma: Improving the Quality-Efficiency Trade-Off via Adaptation

Biao Zhang, Fedor Moiseev, Joshua Ainslie +7

While decoder-only large language models (LLMs) have shown impressive results, encoder-decoder models are still widely adopted in real-world applications for their inference effici…

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…