TTE-Flash: Accelerating Reasoning-based Multimodal Representations via Think-Then-Embed Tokens

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arXiv:2605.16638v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent research has demonstrated that Universal Multimodal Embedding (UME) benefits significantly from Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning. In this paradigm, a generative model produces explicit reasoning traces for a multimodal query, with the final representation extracted from an embedding token attending to both the query and the reasoning. Despite its effectiveness, the computational overhead of generating explicit CoT traces is often prohi

Published 19 May 2026

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Title: TTE-Flash: Accelerating Reasoning-based Multimodal Representations via Think-Then-Embed Tokens

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arXiv:2605.16638v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent research has demonstrated that Universal Multimodal Embedding (UME) benefits significantly from Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning. In this paradigm, a generative model produces explicit reasoning traces for a multimodal query, with the final representation extracted from an embedding token attending to both the query and the reasoning. Despite its effectiveness, the computational overhead of generating explicit CoT traces is often prohi
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