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This paper compares natively multimodal embedding models (Gemini Embedding 2, Amazon Nova 2) against frontier LLMs (GPT-4.1, Claude Sonnet 4.6) for hard-negative text-to-image retrieval, finding comparable accuracy but much lower latency for embedding-based ranking.
ECI_sem is a training-free method for ranking hard negative sources in dense retrieval using frozen embeddings, achieving strong performance on MS MARCO and BEIR benchmarks.