Qwen3-VL-Embedding and Qwen3-VL-Reranker: A Unified Framework for State-of-the-Art Multimodal Retrieval and Ranking research paper by Alibaba (Qwen), 2026
Alibaba (Qwen) · Retrieval and data · Jan 8, 2026 · 315 citations · 59 upvotes · unverified
What it shows
The Qwen3-VL-Embedding and Qwen3-VL-Reranker models form an end-to-end multimodal search pipeline, leveraging multi-stage training and cross-attention mechanisms to achieve high-precision retrieval across diverse modalities.
By Mingxin Li, Yanzhao Zhang, Dingkun Long and 9 more · arXiv 2601.04720 · PDF · Code
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About this paper
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- arXiv.org
- Citations
- 315, 62 influential · Semantic Scholar
- Upvotes
- 59 · Hugging Face
- Lab
- Alibaba (Qwen) · on Companies · on Quarterly
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