Tony Wu

NeoMME: A Single-Tower Multimodal-Native Multilingual Foundation Encoder for Efficient Fine-Tuning and Inference

Multimodal models often build on architectures designed for generative vision-language modeling, typically combining separately pretrained vision encoders with causal language models. Visual document retrievers such as ColPali repurpose these models as encoders, carrying over the parameter and compute overhead of a VLM...