3 papers
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
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
Adapting Decoder-Based Language Models for Diverse Encoder Downstream Tasks
Paul Suganthan, Fedor Moiseev, Le Yan +7
Decoder-based transformers, while revolutionizing language modeling and scaling to immense sizes, have not completely overtaken encoder-heavy architectures in natural language proc…