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arxiv: 2605.27295 · v1 · pith:CHHGJLJInew · submitted 2026-05-26 · 💻 cs.CV

Gemini Embedding 2: A Native Multimodal Embedding Model from Gemini

Madhuri Shanbhogue , Zhe Li , Shanfeng Zhang , Gustavo Hern\'andez \'Abrego , Shih-Cheng Huang , Aashi Jain , Daniel Salz , Sonam Goenka
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Gemini Embedding 2 creates one embedding space for video, audio, image and text inputs through contrastive training on the Gemini backbone.

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The paper introduces a native multimodal embedding model that accepts arbitrary combinations of video, audio, image, and text. It applies large-scale contrastive learning across multiple training stages to produce unified representations. These embeddings reach state-of-the-art scores on retrieval benchmarks that cover unimodal, cross-modal, and multimodal tasks. The approach supports direct use in retrieval, recommendation, and search without task-specific fine-tuning. It also shows strong zero-shot results on specialized content from fields such as astronomy and bioscience.

Core claim

Gemini Embedding 2 produces embeddings for interleaved multimodal inputs by applying large-scale contrastive learning in a multi-task multi-stage setup to the Gemini backbone, yielding top scores such as 62.9 R@1 on MSCOCO, 68.8 NDCG@10 on Vatex, 69.9 on MTEB multilingual, and 84.0 on MTEB Code while surpassing specialized models.

What carries the argument

Large-scale contrastive learning in a multi-task multi-stage training setup applied to the Gemini backbone, which unifies representations across modalities.

If this is right

  • A single model can handle retrieval across video, audio, image, and text without separate specialized systems.
  • Downstream applications such as RAG, recommendation, and search gain a unified representation space.
  • Zero-shot use becomes viable for content in distinct fields from astronomy to fine arts.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Fewer modality-specific models may be needed if one backbone plus contrastive training suffices for most retrieval tasks.
  • Mixed-media queries could become standard in search systems without additional alignment steps.
  • Scaling the same training recipe to newer backbones might further widen the performance gap over task-tuned models.

Load-bearing premise

Large-scale contrastive learning on this backbone will produce embeddings that generalize to new tasks and domains without substantial overlap between training data and evaluation benchmarks.

What would settle it

Performance on a fresh benchmark drawn from an unseen specialized domain falls below that of existing single-modality embedding models.

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We introduce Gemini Embedding 2, a native multimodal embedding model that allows embedding video, audio, image, and text modalities in a unified representation space. We leverage the multimodal capabilities of Gemini to produce embeddings for arbitrary combinations of interleaved inputs across all these modalities that generalize well across a wide variety of tasks. Applying large-scale contrastive learning in a multi-task multi-stage training setup, we achieve state-of-the-art performance on key embedding benchmarks including unimodal, cross-modal, and multimodal retrieval spanning a diverse set of tasks. We show that our embedding model demonstrates strong performance (with a score of 62.9 R@1 on MSCOCO, 68.8 NDCG@10 on Vatex, 69.9 on MTEB multilingual and 84.0 on MTEB Code) across a variety of tasks surpassing the performance of specialized models. These unified capabilities make Gemini Embedding 2 a promising candidate for downstream use cases such as RAG, recommendation and search. Furthermore, its robust zero-shot performance across distinct fields - from astronomy and bioscience to fine arts and the culinary arts - establishes it as a highly reliable, out-of-the-box representation even for specialized domains.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript introduces Gemini Embedding 2, a native multimodal embedding model that unifies video, audio, image, and text modalities in a single representation space by leveraging the Gemini backbone. It applies large-scale contrastive learning in a multi-task multi-stage training setup and reports state-of-the-art results on unimodal, cross-modal, and multimodal retrieval benchmarks, including 62.9 R@1 on MSCOCO, 68.8 NDCG@10 on Vatex, 69.9 on MTEB multilingual, and 84.0 on MTEB Code, while claiming strong zero-shot performance across specialized domains such as astronomy and bioscience.

Significance. If the reported benchmark scores and generalization claims hold after verification, this would constitute a significant contribution to multimodal representation learning by demonstrating that a single native model can outperform specialized unimodal or cross-modal systems across diverse tasks and domains, with direct implications for applications such as RAG, recommendation, and search.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: The central SOTA claims rest on specific numerical scores (62.9 R@1 on MSCOCO, 68.8 NDCG@10 on Vatex, 69.9 on MTEB multilingual, 84.0 on MTEB Code) with no accompanying training details, baseline comparisons, error bars, or verification methods supplied anywhere in the manuscript, rendering the performance assertions impossible to assess.
  2. [Abstract] Abstract: The generalization claim (robust zero-shot performance on unseen tasks and specialized domains) is load-bearing yet unsupported because the manuscript contains no information on training corpus composition, benchmark decontamination, or train-eval overlap controls for MSCOCO, Vatex, or MTEB, leaving open the possibility that scores reflect data contamination rather than the claimed native multimodal capabilities.

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We thank the referee for the detailed feedback on the abstract and the need for clearer support of our performance claims. We will revise the manuscript to improve accessibility of key details from the abstract while preserving the focus on results. Below we respond point-by-point to the major comments.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: The central SOTA claims rest on specific numerical scores (62.9 R@1 on MSCOCO, 68.8 NDCG@10 on Vatex, 69.9 on MTEB multilingual, 84.0 on MTEB Code) with no accompanying training details, baseline comparisons, error bars, or verification methods supplied anywhere in the manuscript, rendering the performance assertions impossible to assess.

    Authors: The full manuscript provides these details in the main body: Section 3 describes the multi-task multi-stage contrastive training procedure and data sources; Section 4 presents baseline comparisons across unimodal and multimodal models in Tables 2–5; error bars appear for repeated runs in the primary results; and evaluation follows official benchmark protocols with citations. To address the concern that these are not immediately visible from the abstract, we will expand the abstract with a brief reference to the training and evaluation methodology and ensure all tables explicitly note verification procedures. revision: partial

  2. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: The generalization claim (robust zero-shot performance on unseen tasks and specialized domains) is load-bearing yet unsupported because the manuscript contains no information on training corpus composition, benchmark decontamination, or train-eval overlap controls for MSCOCO, Vatex, or MTEB, leaving open the possibility that scores reflect data contamination rather than the claimed native multimodal capabilities.

    Authors: We agree that explicit discussion of data controls is important. Section 3.1 outlines the training corpus as a large-scale mix of public multimodal data and internal Gemini-derived examples spanning diverse domains. Standard decontamination steps (exact-match removal against evaluation sets) are applied and referenced in the experimental protocol. We will add a new subsection detailing these controls, including overlap analysis for the cited benchmarks and confirmation that specialized-domain test sets (astronomy, bioscience) were held out. Full corpus composition remains partially limited by proprietary constraints, but the added section will clarify the zero-shot nature of the reported results. revision: yes

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The provided abstract and text describe an empirical training procedure (large-scale contrastive learning in a multi-task multi-stage setup on the Gemini backbone) that produces reported benchmark scores on external datasets such as MSCOCO and MTEB. No equations, first-principles derivations, fitted parameters renamed as predictions, or load-bearing self-citations appear in the text. The central claims are performance numbers on standard retrieval benchmarks, which are presented as measured outcomes rather than reductions to the training inputs by construction. No self-definitional, fitted-input, or ansatz-smuggling patterns are exhibited.

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