@article{causal2vecimprovingdecoderonlyllmsasembe, title = {Causal2Vec: Improving Decoder-only LLMs as Embedding Models through a Contextual Token}, author = {Ailiang Lin and Zhuoyun Li and Yusong Wang and Kotaro Funakoshi and Manabu Okumura}, year = {2025}, eprint = {2507.23386}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23386}, }