@article{bottlenecktokensforunifiedmultimodalretr, title = {Bottleneck Tokens for Unified Multimodal Retrieval}, author = {Siyu Sun and Jing Ren and Zhaohe Liao and Dongxiao Mao and Xiangyuan Ren and Yiyi Zhang and Haohua Zhao and Weixiong Lin and Jiang Shaohua and Liqing Zhang and Yuchao Zheng}, year = {2026}, eprint = {2604.11095}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.11095}, }