Ovis-Embedding: Pushing the Frontiers of Universal Omni-Modal Embeddings

Abstract:In this report, we introduce \textbf{Ovis-Embedding}, a state-of-the-art omni-modal embedding family built on native integration of text, image, video, and audio. Instead of assembling separate modality towers, Ovis-Embedding uses a shared multimodal backbone to encode different modalities in a common representation space. Specifically, we make \textbf{three key advances}: (1) \textbf{native omni-modal initialization}: we adopt a pretrained Qwen-omni model as the embedding backbone and adapt it through contrastive training with low-rank initialization; (2) \textbf{data-centric omni-modal training}: we construct a broad, high-quality corpus spanning text, images, video, audio, and interleaved multimodal data. To improve data efficiency, we introduce homogeneous-source sampling to form task-consistent batches with informative in-batch negatives; and (3) \textbf{embedding-specific training and inference optimization}: we use focal loss to emphasize hard examples and similarity-based Embedding Distillation to transfer fine-grained similarity structure from complementary experts. At inference time, low-rank feature decomposition enables compact embeddings with flexible dimensionality and minimal performance loss. Empirical evaluations show that the \textbf{Ovis-Embedding} family achieves state-of-the-art performance on \textbf{MMEB-v3}, \textbf{MMEB-v2}, \textbf{MVEB}, \textbf{MAEB}, and \textbf{RTEB}, demonstrating its effectiveness across text, image, video, and audio modalities. These results highlight the potential of unified omni-modal training to overcome modality fragmentation and advance universal embedding models for any-to-any retrieval.

Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)

arXiv:2609.25165 [cs.AI]

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