UMER: Unifying Embedding and Ranking via Pair-Aware Discriminative Reasoning for Universal Multimodal Retrieval

arXiv:2608.18504 · cs.AI · Submitted 2026-08-19 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-08-19

Updated: 2026-08-26

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Embeddings — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Chain-of-Thought (CoT) — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Chain-of-Thought (CoT) Reasoning — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verification — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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