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Query-Conditioned Spherical Centroid Aggregation for Multimodal Retrieval

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 14, 2026 · UTC

Multimodal retrieval integrates video, audio, subtitles, and text; however, recent geometric aggregators, such as Gramian volumes, hyperbolic volumes, and spectral objectives, treat all modalities symmetrically. Under a unified evaluation protocol, their joint scores frequently lag behind the strongest single-modality pathway by 1.9 to 27.6 R@1. Controlled analyses attribute this outcome to uniform modality influence. This work introduces Spherical Centroid Aggregation with Learned Adaptive Relevance (SCALAR), a query-conditioned aggregator that assigns relevance-based weights to each availabl

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