Generative Giants, Retrieval Weaklings: Why do Multimodal Large Language Models Fail at Multimodal Retrieval?

Hengyi Feng, Zeang Sheng, Meiyi Qiang, Yang Li, Wentao Zhang. Generative Giants, Retrieval Weaklings: Why do Multimodal Large Language Models Fail at Multimodal Retrieval?. In Maria Liakata, Viviane P. Moreira, Jiajun Zhang 0001, David Jurgens, editors, Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2026, San Diego, California, United States, July 2-7, 2026. pages 15917-15933, Association for Computational Linguistics, 2026. [doi]

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Hengyi Feng

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Zeang Sheng

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Meiyi Qiang

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Yang Li

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Wentao Zhang

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