Task-Conditional Flow Matching for Balanced Multilingual Text Embedding Adaptation
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arXiv:2608.05785v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multilingual text embedding models are commonly adapted using a single training objective across diverse tasks, despite different tasks requiring fundamentally different optimization strategies. We introduce Task-Conditional Flow Matching (TCFM), a multilingual embedding adaptation framework that selectively applies Flow Matching to translation tasks while optimizing retrieval, classification, and pair-classification tasks with objectives better aligned to their learning dynamics. TCFM further combines teacher-guided representation preservation
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- arXiv:2608.05785v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multilingual text embedding models are commonly adapted using a single training objective across diverse tasks, despite different tasks requiring fundamentally different optimization strategies.
- We introduce Task-Conditional Flow Matching (TCFM), a multilingual embedding adaptation framework that selectively applies Flow Matching to translation tasks while optimizing retrieval, classification, and pair-classification tasks with objectives better aligned to their learning dynamics.
- TCFM further combines teacher-guided representation preservation
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The importance of “Task-Conditional Flow Matching for Balanced Multilingual Text Embedding Adaptation” will be measured by what changes in practice. User behavior, access conditions, verifiable performance and responsible-use outcomes are the signals worth following.
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