Omni-Embed-Nemotron: A Unified Multimodal Retrieval Model for Text, Image, Audio, and Video

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Autori principali: Xu, Mengyao, Zhou, Wenfei, Babakhin, Yauhen, Moreira, Gabriel, Ak, Ronay, Osmulski, Radek, Liu, Bo, Oldridge, Even, Schifferer, Benedikt
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author Xu, Mengyao
Zhou, Wenfei
Babakhin, Yauhen
Moreira, Gabriel
Ak, Ronay
Osmulski, Radek
Liu, Bo
Oldridge, Even
Schifferer, Benedikt
author_facet Xu, Mengyao
Zhou, Wenfei
Babakhin, Yauhen
Moreira, Gabriel
Ak, Ronay
Osmulski, Radek
Liu, Bo
Oldridge, Even
Schifferer, Benedikt
contents We present Omni-Embed-Nemotron, a unified multimodal retrieval embedding model developed to handle the increasing complexity of real-world information needs. While Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has significantly advanced language models by incorporating external knowledge, existing text-based retrievers rely on clean, structured input and struggle with the visually and semantically rich content found in real-world documents such as PDFs, slides, or videos. Recent work such as ColPali has shown that preserving document layout using image-based representations can improve retrieval quality. Building on this, and inspired by the capabilities of recent multimodal models such as Qwen2.5-Omni, we extend retrieval beyond text and images to also support audio and video modalities. Omni-Embed-Nemotron enables both cross-modal (e.g., text - video) and joint-modal (e.g., text - video+audio) retrieval using a single model. We describe the architecture, training setup, and evaluation results of Omni-Embed-Nemotron, and demonstrate its effectiveness in text, image, and video retrieval.
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spellingShingle Omni-Embed-Nemotron: A Unified Multimodal Retrieval Model for Text, Image, Audio, and Video
Xu, Mengyao
Zhou, Wenfei
Babakhin, Yauhen
Moreira, Gabriel
Ak, Ronay
Osmulski, Radek
Liu, Bo
Oldridge, Even
Schifferer, Benedikt
Computation and Language
We present Omni-Embed-Nemotron, a unified multimodal retrieval embedding model developed to handle the increasing complexity of real-world information needs. While Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has significantly advanced language models by incorporating external knowledge, existing text-based retrievers rely on clean, structured input and struggle with the visually and semantically rich content found in real-world documents such as PDFs, slides, or videos. Recent work such as ColPali has shown that preserving document layout using image-based representations can improve retrieval quality. Building on this, and inspired by the capabilities of recent multimodal models such as Qwen2.5-Omni, we extend retrieval beyond text and images to also support audio and video modalities. Omni-Embed-Nemotron enables both cross-modal (e.g., text - video) and joint-modal (e.g., text - video+audio) retrieval using a single model. We describe the architecture, training setup, and evaluation results of Omni-Embed-Nemotron, and demonstrate its effectiveness in text, image, and video retrieval.
title Omni-Embed-Nemotron: A Unified Multimodal Retrieval Model for Text, Image, Audio, and Video
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03458