'Text Chaos': Irrelevant Text Hurts Multimodal Retrieval More Than Images

Researchers from Tsinghua and others found that dense retrievers degrade sharply on mixed-modal corpora, as irrelevant text disrupts ranking more than images—a phenomenon dubbed 'text chaos'—and proposed Trident to mitigate it.

2026-10-09 ~ 2026-10-09 · 2 related posts

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