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MoEMB uses Mixture-of-Experts to scale multimodal embeddings efficiently

Researchers have introduced MoEMB, a novel approach to scaling universal multimodal embeddings (UME) by utilizing mixture-of-experts (MoE) models. This method enhances encoder capacity without increasing the representation size or retrieval effort, addressing limitations of previous scaling techniques. MoEMB achieves state-of-the-art performance on MMEB-V2 and MRMR benchmarks with significantly fewer active parameters and less computation compared to existing methods. The study also explores adaptive computation strategies to further improve efficiency for MoE-based embedding models, making them more suitable for large-scale retrieval and recommendation systems. AI

IMPACT This research could lead to more efficient and powerful multimodal AI systems for tasks like retrieval and recommendation.

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Xuanming Cui, Shlok Kumar Mishra, Wentao Bao, Aashu Singh, Zihao Wang, Xiangjun Fan, Jun Xiao, Ser-Nam Lim, Jianpeng Cheng ·

    MoEMB: Scaling Universal Multimodal Embeddings with Efficient Mixture-of-Experts Models

    arXiv:2609.08663v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Universal multimodal embedding (UME) increasingly demands encoder's capacity for handling a broad range of tasks and modalities with increased complexity. Prior scaling methods either increase the representation size, retrieval ef…