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Ovis-Embedding: Pushing the Frontiers of Universal Omni-Modal Embeddings
Summary
Ovis-Embedding is a unified omni‑modal embedding model that shares a single backbone for text, image, video, and audio, trained with contrastive loss, homogeneous‑source sampling, and embedding distillation. It achieves state‑of‑the‑art results on several multimodal retrieval benchmarks while offering low‑rank, dimension‑flexible embeddings.
- Uses a single pretrained Qwen‑omni backbone for all modalities, avoiding separate towers.
- Homogeneous‑source sampling creates task‑consistent batches with informative in‑batch negatives.
- Combines focal loss with similarity‑based embedding distillation from expert models.
- Low‑rank feature decomposition at inference yields compact, dimension‑adjustable embeddings with minimal loss.
Engineers building cross‑modal retrieval or unified embedding systems should watch for this approach to reduce model fragmentation and improve performance.
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