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Mohammed Irfan Kurpath

Publications 2

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Omni-Embed-Mini: Binding Modalities Without Forgetting via Dense Distillation

Mohammed Irfan Kurpath, Jaseel Muhammad Kaithakkodan, Sahal Shaji Mullappilly et al. · 2026

Extending a text embedding model to new modalities typically degrades text retrieval quality, and existing omni-modal embedders compensate with multi-billion parameters. We present Omni-Embed-Mini, a 0.9B-parameter model that maps text, speech, audio, images, video, and visually-rich documents into a single shared cosi …

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Hard Vision, Easy Vision: What GPT-6 Astra Reveals Across Computer Vision

Hanoona Rasheed, Mohammed Irfan Kurpath, Bin Ren et al. · 2026

Frontier general-purpose systems are rapidly expanding beyond visual understanding into capabilities traditionally handled by dedicated computer-vision models. As these capabilities expand, a central question for the computer-vision community is how far this reach extends, and what remains hard. We evaluate GPT-6 Astra …

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