@article{onthemodalitygapandthecontrastivelossinm, title = {On the modality gap and the contrastive loss in multi-modal representation learning}, author = {Fabian Mager and Hiba Nassar and Lars Kai Hansen}, year = {2026}, eprint = {2607.10698}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.10698}, }