Is Reasoning Always Useful? Rethinking Reasoning Utility in Universal Multimodal Embeddings
SURE (Score-structure Utility Router for Embeddings), which improves UME-R1-7B by 1.5 points and yields consistent gains on two additional embedding models on MMEB-V2, without retraining, label-based policy selection, or extra VLM forward passes is proposed.
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