VisME is a universal multimodal embedding model from our CVPR 2026 paper Illuminating Visual Identity in Universal Multimodal Embeddings. Built on Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct, VisME produces dense embeddings for images, text, and image–text pairs, with strong performance on both general multimodal benchmarks (MMEB) and identity-centric retrieval (MVEB).

Highlights

Identity-aware retrieval — trained with visual-identity supervision via the MVEB benchmark (4 meta-tasks, 28 test subsets).
Strong general capability — jointly trained on MMEB-v1 and MVEB, maintaining competitive performance on standard MMEB tasks.

Performance

Results on MMEB (Cls / VQA / Ret / Grd) and MVEB (ID-Rec / Re-ID / ID-Grd / ID-Edit). Metrics are reported as in the paper (average Precision@1 across datasets within each task group).

Training Data

VisME is trained on a mixture of:

Benchmark	Role
MMEB-v1	General multimodal embedding tasks (classification, VQA, retrieval, grounding)
MVEB	Visual-identity retrieval across recognition, re-ID, grounding, and editing

The MVEB datasets are now open-sourced. Training code will be released soon.

Usage

python

import torch
import torch.nn.functional as F
from io import BytesIO
from urllib.request import Request, urlopen
from PIL import Image
from visme import VisME

model = VisME("path/to/this/repo")
model = model.cuda().eval()

instruction = "Represent the face with the following text."
text = "Retrieve all images with the same cartoon character."

samples = {
    "SpiderMan_comic_E616": "https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/spiderman/images/a/ad/Peter_Parker_%28Earth-616%29_017.png/revision/latest?cb=20210807043502",
    "SpiderMan_promo_E199999": "https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/2/28/Peter_Parker_%28Earth-199999%29_from_Spider-Man_No_Way_Home_promotional_art_002.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/1000?cb=20230730084204",
    "Toxin": "https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/superheroes/images/5/53/Toxin.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20240813171932",
}

def load_image(url: str) -> Image.Image:
    req = Request(url, headers={"User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0"})
    with urlopen(req, timeout=30) as resp:
        return Image.open(BytesIO(resp.read())).convert("RGB")

names = list(samples.keys())
batch = [
    {"image": load_image(samples[name]), "text": text, "instruction": instruction}
    for name in names
]

with torch.no_grad():
    embeddings = model.encode_input(batch)  # shape: (3, 3584), L2-normalized

# Pairwise cosine similarity
# SpiderMan_comic_E616  <-> SpiderMan_promo_E199999
# SpiderMan_comic_E616  <-> Toxin
# SpiderMan_promo_E199999 <-> Toxin
for i in range(len(names)):
    for j in range(i + 1, len(names)):
        sim = F.cosine_similarity(embeddings[i : i + 1], embeddings[j : j + 1]).item()
        print(f"cosine_similarity({names[i]}, {names[j]}) = {sim:.4f}")

Evaluation

Benchmark evaluation code for MMEB and MVEB is coming soon. In the meantime, please refer to the paper for full experimental settings and baselines.

Citation

If you find VisME or MVEB useful, please cite:

bibtex

@inproceedings{cao2026illuminating,
  title={Illuminating Visual Identity in Universal Multimodal Embeddings},
  author={Cao, Jiawei and Feng, Junyi and Hua, Jiashen and Huang, Ziheng and Deng, Bing and Wu, Kaijie and Gu, Chaochen and Ye, Jieping},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition},
  pages={8737--8748},
  year={2026}
}

License

This model is built upon Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct. Please follow the license terms of the base model and the respective datasets used during training.

HugC/VisME-Qwen25VL-3B

VisME (Qwen2.5-VL-7B)