@article{reasontocontrastacascadedmultimodalretri, title = {Reason to Contrast: A Cascaded Multimodal Retrieval Framework}, author = {Xuanming Cui and Hong-You Chen and Hao Yu and Hao Yuan and Zihao Wang and Shlok Kumar Mishra and Hanchao Yu and Yonghuan Yang and Jun Xiao and Ser-Nam Lim and Jianpeng Cheng and Qi Guo and Xiangjun Fan}, year = {2025}, eprint = {2602.23369}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.23369}, }