From Fragmentation to Fusion: A Survey and Roadmap for Omnimodal Embeddings
READ THE ORIGINAL SOURCEOpen original sourcehuggingface.co · Opens in a new tabThis survey and position paper argues that embedding research across text, vision, audio, graphs, tables, and time series is fragmented into modality-specific silos, yet converging around contrastive learning objectives, Transformer backbones, the pretrain-finetune recipe, and a shift toward whole semantic units. It proposes the 3C framework of Coverage, Comparability, and Compositionality, mapped to format transformation, cross-modal alignment, and deep joint fusion, which the authors advocate as the terminus. The paper calls for preserving modality-specific structure, cross-pollinating techniques, and building unified benchmarks.
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This survey and position paper argues that embedding research across text, vision, audio, graphs, tables, and time series is fragmented into modality-specific silos, yet converging around contrastive learning objectives, Transformer backbones, the pretrain-finetune recipe, and a shift toward whole semantic units. It proposes the 3C framework of Coverage, Comparability, and Compositionality, mapped to format transformation, cross-modal alignment, and deep joint fusion, which the authors advocate as the terminus. The paper calls for preserving modality-specific structure, cross-pollinating techniques, and building unified benchmarks.
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- Embedding research across modalities is converging on contrastive objectives, Transformer backbones, and the pretrain-finetune recipe.
- The 3C framework (Coverage, Comparability, Compositionality) maps to transformation, alignment, and joint fusion.
- Deep joint fusion is advocated as the terminus because it subsumes alignment and eliminates the modality gap.
- Reaching unification requires unified benchmarks that measure true compositional gains.
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