On multimodal retrieval, the 9B scores 65.2% on ViDoRe v3, beating nemotron-colembed-v2-8b

antoine_chaffin · x · 2026-10-08

On multimodal retrieval, the 9B scores 65.2% average on ViDoRe v3 with images, outperforming nemotron-colembed-v2-8b and trailing only vision-specific EVIE at a much smaller embedding dimension. The 0.6B scores 62.3%, beating nemotron-colembed-v2-4b and qwen3-vl-embed-8b, and matching topk's 2B model.

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