Is Reasoning Always Useful? Rethinking Reasoning Utility in Universal Multimodal Embeddings

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arXiv:2609.29560v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reasoning-enhanced universal multimodal embeddings (UME) improve heterogeneous retrieval, but plausible rationales do not necessarily produce discriminative rankings. We study this gap by comparing the discriminative (DISC) and reasoning-driven…

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