| EVIE: High-Performance Multilingual Visual Document Retrieval with Matryoshka Embeddings and Token Compression | ✓ Link | 66.75 | 64.16 | EVIE-8B | 2026-09-07 |
| Nemotron ColEmbed V2: Top-Performing Late Interaction embedding models for Visual Document Retrieval | | 63.53 | | Nemotron ColEmbed VL 8B V2 | 2026-02-03 |
| MTEB Leaderboard | | 57.64 | | ColNomic 7B | 2025-04-02 |
| MTEB Leaderboard | ✓ Link | 57.54 | | jina-embeddings-v4 | 2025-06-23 |
| Nemotron ColEmbed V2: Top-Performing Late Interaction embedding models for Visual Document Retrieval | | 57.07 | | Llama NemoRetriever ColEmbed 3B v1 | 2026-02-03 |
| MTEB Leaderboard | | 56.4 | | ColNomic 3B | 2025-04-02 |
| NeoMME: A Single-Tower Multimodal-Native Multilingual Foundation Encoder for Efficient Fine-Tuning and Inference | | 55.6 | 53.29 | NeoMME-800M-Retriever (late interaction) | 2026-08-31 |
| Nemotron ColEmbed V2: Top-Performing Late Interaction embedding models for Visual Document Retrieval | | 55.48 | | Llama NemoRetriever ColEmbed 1B v1 | 2026-02-03 |
| MTEB Leaderboard | ✓ Link | 52.44 | | ColQwen2.5 v0.2 | 2024-06-27 |
| MINER: Mining Multimodal Internal Representation for Efficient Retrieval | | 49.7 | | MINER-Jina | 2026-05-07 |
| jina-embeddings-v5-omni: Text-Geometry-Preserving Multimodal Embeddings via Frozen-Tower Composition | ✓ Link | 45.71 | | jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small | 2026-05-08 |
| CausalEmbed: Auto-Regressive Multi-Vector Generation in Latent Space for Visual Document Embedding | ✓ Link | 45.55 | 42.6 | CausalQwen | 2026-01-29 |
| NanoVDR: Distilling a 2B Vision-Language Retriever into a 70M Text-Only Encoder for Visual Document Retrieval | | | 46.5 | NanoVDR-S-Multi | 2026-03-13 |
| Hydra: Unifying Document Retrieval and Generation in a Single Vision-Language Model | | | 56.39 | Hydra-4B | 2026-03-30 |
| DistilVDR: A Compact End-to-End Visual Document Retriever via Dual-Student Distillation | ✓ Link | | 47.07 | DistilVDR-HiRes | 2026-08-11 |
| ColNanoVDR: Document-Free Query Distillation for Multi-Vector Visual Document Retrieval via Optimal Transport | ✓ Link | | 60.1 | ColNanoVDR (from ColVec1.1-8b) | 2026-09-28 |
| MTEB Leaderboard | ✓ Link | 44.18 | | ColQwen2 v1.0 | 2024-06-27 |
| MTEB Leaderboard | ✓ Link | 42.95 | | ColPali v1.3 | 2024-06-27 |
| MTEB Leaderboard | ✓ Link | 26.12 | | ColModernVBERT | 2025-10-01 |
| MTEB Leaderboard | ✓ Link | 17.68135417 | | SigLIP Large Patch16 384 | 2023-03-27 |
| MTEB Leaderboard | ✓ Link | 17.2255 | | SigLIP SO400M Patch14 384 | 2023-03-27 |
| MTEB Leaderboard | ✓ Link | 15.41 | | BiModernVBERT | 2025-10-01 |
| MTEB Leaderboard | ✓ Link | 15.17822917 | | SigLIP Base Patch16 512 | 2023-03-27 |
| MTEB Leaderboard | ✓ Link | 14.96 | | ModernVBERT-embed | 2025-10-01 |
| MTEB Leaderboard | ✓ Link | 12.3615625 | | SigLIP Base Patch16 384 | 2023-03-27 |
| MTEB Leaderboard | ✓ Link | 9.02 | | CLIP ViT-L/14 | 2021-02-26 |
| MTEB Leaderboard | ✓ Link | 7.7263125 | | SigLIP Base Patch16 256 | 2023-03-27 |
| MTEB Leaderboard | ✓ Link | 7.236 | | SigLIP Base Patch16 256 Multilingual | 2023-03-27 |
| MTEB Leaderboard | ✓ Link | 6.31527083 | | SigLIP Base Patch16 224 | 2023-03-27 |
| MTEB Leaderboard | ✓ Link | 5.25 | | CLIP ViT-B/16 | 2021-02-26 |
| MTEB Leaderboard | ✓ Link | 2.68 | | CLIP ViT-B/32 | 2021-02-26 |