arxiv: 2605.06460 · v1 · submitted 2026-05-07 · 💻 cs.LG

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MINER: Mining Multimodal Internal Representation for Efficient Retrieval

Bowei He, Difan Jiao, Gonghao Zhang, Haochen Liu, Haolun Wu, Rui Song, Weien Li, Xue Liu, Ye Yuan, Zeyu Li, Zhenwei Tang

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keywords MINERdense retrievalmultimodal retrievalvisual document retrievallayer probinginternal representationstransformer fusionsingle-vector embedding

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MINER fuses internal transformer-layer signals into single dense vectors to improve visual document retrieval without extra storage cost.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

Single-vector retrievers for visual documents normally lag behind token-level methods because they discard most information after the final layer. The paper first shows through layer diagnostics that retrieval-relevant signals already exist across earlier layers. MINER then adds lightweight probes to surface those signals and fuses them with adaptive sparse masking into one compact embedding. The result is higher accuracy on ViDoRe benchmarks while retaining the index size and speed of ordinary dense retrieval.

Core claim

MINER attaches a lightweight probe to each transformer layer of a multimodal backbone, uses a diagnostic to identify retrieval-aligned dimensions, applies performance-adaptive neuron-level masking, and fuses the surviving activations into the final single-vector representation. This plug-in requires no backbone changes and preserves the storage and serving advantages of dense retrieval while narrowing the quality gap to late-interaction baselines.

What carries the argument

MINER module: Retrieval-Aligned Layer Probing to surface relevant dimensions per layer, followed by Adaptive Sparse Multi-Layer Fusion that masks and combines signals into one compact vector.

If this is right

Dense single-vector retrievers can reach within 0.2 nDCG@5 of strong late-interaction methods on some ViDoRe settings.
Up to 4.5% nDCG@5 gains are achievable over the unmodified backbone across ViDoRe V1/V2/V3.
Index size and serving latency remain identical to standard dense retrieval.
The method works as a drop-in module on existing multimodal backbones without retraining the core model.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

The same layer-probing idea could be tested on text-only retrieval or other transformer-based tasks where final embeddings are known to discard useful signals.
If the adaptive masking generalizes, similar lightweight fusion might reduce the need for entirely new retrieval architectures.
The approach suggests that many current dense retrievers already contain untapped capacity in their intermediate layers.

Load-bearing premise

The internal activations at different layers contain distinct retrieval-relevant signals that lightweight probes can identify and combine without information loss or backbone changes.

What would settle it

Running MINER on a standard backbone and finding no nDCG@5 improvement or an increase beyond one vector per document would falsify the central efficiency claim.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.06460 by Bowei He, Difan Jiao, Gonghao Zhang, Haochen Liu, Haolun Wu, Rui Song, Weien Li, Xue Liu, Ye Yuan, Zeyu Li, Zhenwei Tang.

**Figure 1.** Figure 1: The line shows the layerwise normalized Alignment Ratio ( view at source ↗

**Figure 2.** Figure 2: Overview of MINER. MINER acts as a plug-in module that extracts readout-aligned view at source ↗

**Figure 3.** Figure 3: Efficiency-performance trade-off on ViDoRe V view at source ↗

**Figure 4.** Figure 4: Hyperparameters sensitivity analysis, reported as a percentage of the default configuration. view at source ↗

**Figure 5.** Figure 5: The line shows the layerwise normalized Alignment Ratio ( view at source ↗

**Figure 6.** Figure 6: The line shows the layerwise normalized Alignment Ratio ( view at source ↗

**Figure 7.** Figure 7: Layerwise normalized alignment ratio ARdl before and after retrieval-aligned probing on Jina. Probing consistently increases ARdl across the analyzed internal layers, indicating that intermediate representations become more aligned with the final cross-modal retrieval space after the learned alignment step. 19 21 23 25 27 29 31 33 Layer Index 0.0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 A Rl Eager Non-probing ARl vs. Probing ARl N… view at source ↗

**Figure 8.** Figure 8: Layerwise normalized alignment ratio ARdl before and after retrieval-aligned probing on Eager. Probing consistently increases ARdl across the analyzed internal layers, indicating that intermediate representations become more aligned with the final cross-modal retrieval space after the learned alignment step. 15 17 19 21 23 25 27 29 31 33 Layer Index 0.0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 A Rl MoCa Non-probing ARl vs. Probing… view at source ↗

**Figure 9.** Figure 9: Layerwise normalized alignment ratio ARdl before and after retrieval-aligned probing on MoCa. Probing consistently increases ARdl across the analyzed internal layers, indicating that intermediate representations become more aligned with the final cross-modal retrieval space after the learned alignment step. 15 view at source ↗

**Figure 10.** Figure 10: Percentage of neurons selected by the Top- view at source ↗

**Figure 11.** Figure 11: Percentage of neurons selected by the Top- view at source ↗

**Figure 12.** Figure 12: Percentage of neurons selected by the Top- view at source ↗

**Figure 13.** Figure 13: Hyperparameters sensitivity analysis of Eager, reported as a percentage of the default view at source ↗

**Figure 14.** Figure 14: Hyperparameters sensitivity analysis of MoCa, reported as a percentage of the default view at source ↗

read the original abstract

Visual document retrieval has become essential for accessing information in visually rich documents. Existing approaches fall into two camps. Late-interaction retrievers achieve strong quality through fine-grained token-level matching but store hundreds of vectors per page, incurring large index footprints and high serving costs. By contrast, dense single-vector retrievers retain storage and latency advantages but consistently lag in quality because they compress all information into a single final-layer embedding. In this work, we first conduct a layerwise diagnostic on single-vector retrievers, revealing that retrieval-relevant signal resides in internal representations. Motivated by these findings, we propose MINER (Mining Multimodal Internal RepreseNtation for Efficient Retrieval), a lightweight plug-in module that probes and fuses internal signals across transformer layers into a single compact embedding without modifying the backbone or sacrificing single-vector efficiency. The first Retrieval-Aligned Layer Probing stage attaches a lightweight probe at each layer, surfacing which dimensions carry retrieval-relevant information. The subsequent Adaptive Sparse Multi-Layer Fusion stage applies performance-adaptive neuron-level masking to the selected layers and fuses the surviving signals into the final dense vector. Across ViDoRe V1/V2/V3, MINER outperforms existing dense single-vector retrievers on the majority of benchmarks, with up to 4.5% nDCG@5 improvement over its corresponding backbone. Compared to strong late-interaction baselines, in some settings MINER substantially narrows the nDCG@$5$ gap to $0.2$ while preserving the storage and serving advantages of dense retrieval.

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MINER claims solid gains on dense retrievers for visual documents by probing internal layers and fusing them sparsely, but the abstract leaves the reliability of that probing and masking unproven.

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The main thing to know is that this paper shows how to pull retrieval-relevant signals from internal transformer layers in a multimodal backbone and pack them into one dense vector without retraining the model or blowing up the index size. The reported numbers are up to 4.5% nDCG@5 better than the plain backbone on ViDoRe sets, and in some cases it closes most of the gap to late-interaction methods while keeping single-vector serving costs.

Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper introduces MINER, a lightweight plug-in for dense single-vector retrievers in visual document retrieval. It performs a layerwise diagnostic to identify retrieval-relevant signals in internal transformer representations, then uses Retrieval-Aligned Layer Probing followed by Adaptive Sparse Multi-Layer Fusion (performance-adaptive neuron-level masking) to combine them into a single compact embedding without altering the backbone. On ViDoRe V1/V2/V3, it reports up to 4.5% nDCG@5 gains over backbones and narrows gaps to late-interaction baselines while retaining dense-retrieval efficiency.

Significance. If the empirical claims hold under rigorous verification, MINER would provide a practical, storage-efficient way to improve multimodal dense retrieval quality by surfacing internal-layer signals, potentially closing part of the quality gap to late-interaction methods without their index-size penalty. The plug-in design and layer-probing idea could generalize to other transformer-based retrievers.

major comments (2)

[Abstract and §3 (Method)] The central performance claims (up to 4.5% nDCG@5 improvement and gap narrowing to 0.2) rest on the premise that the layerwise diagnostic reliably isolates retrieval-relevant dimensions and that adaptive sparse masking fuses them without information loss. However, the abstract and method description supply no layer-wise contribution ablations, information-theoretic measures, or stability checks across query sets, leaving the weakest assumption untested and the reported gains unverifiable from the given text.
[Abstract and §4 (Experiments)] Experimental reporting is insufficient to support the benchmark claims: the abstract mentions gains across ViDoRe V1/V2/V3 but provides no details on exact baselines, statistical significance tests, variance across runs, or ablation results for the probing and masking stages. This directly affects soundness of the majority-of-benchmarks outperformance assertion.

minor comments (2)

[Abstract] Notation inconsistency: nDCG@5 appears both as plain text and as nDCG@$5$; standardize throughout.
[§3.2] The description of 'performance-adaptive neuron-level masking' would benefit from a precise algorithmic statement or pseudocode to clarify how the masking threshold is chosen and applied.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the thoughtful and detailed comments. These points highlight opportunities to strengthen the presentation of our layerwise analysis and experimental rigor. We address each major comment below and commit to revisions that directly incorporate the requested details without altering the core claims or methodology.

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Referee: [Abstract and §3 (Method)] The central performance claims (up to 4.5% nDCG@5 improvement and gap narrowing to 0.2) rest on the premise that the layerwise diagnostic reliably isolates retrieval-relevant dimensions and that adaptive sparse masking fuses them without information loss. However, the abstract and method description supply no layer-wise contribution ablations, information-theoretic measures, or stability checks across query sets, leaving the weakest assumption untested and the reported gains unverifiable from the given text.

Authors: We agree that the abstract and §3 would benefit from more explicit supporting analyses. The manuscript already includes a layerwise diagnostic in §3.1 that examines retrieval performance using internal representations from different transformer layers, which motivated the design of Retrieval-Aligned Layer Probing. To address the concern directly, we will add a dedicated ablation subsection in the revised §3 that reports per-layer nDCG@5 contributions on ViDoRe benchmarks, along with stability results across query subsets. While our work is primarily empirical rather than information-theoretic, we will also include a brief analysis of dimension-wise variance or mutual information estimates between probed layers and retrieval labels where space allows. These additions will make the isolation of retrieval-relevant signals verifiable and will be included in the next version. revision: yes
Referee: [Abstract and §4 (Experiments)] Experimental reporting is insufficient to support the benchmark claims: the abstract mentions gains across ViDoRe V1/V2/V3 but provides no details on exact baselines, statistical significance tests, variance across runs, or ablation results for the probing and masking stages. This directly affects soundness of the majority-of-benchmarks outperformance assertion.

Authors: We acknowledge that the abstract and experimental reporting can be made more self-contained. The full §4 already specifies the exact backbones (e.g., CLIP, BLIP, and other dense single-vector models) and late-interaction baselines (e.g., ColBERT variants), along with results tables for ViDoRe V1/V2/V3. To strengthen verifiability, we will revise the abstract to briefly note the evaluation protocol and will expand §4 with: (i) statistical significance tests (paired t-tests with p-values) comparing MINER to backbones, (ii) standard deviations across three random seeds for all reported metrics, and (iii) a comprehensive ablation table isolating the contributions of the probing and adaptive sparse fusion stages. These changes will directly support the outperformance claims and will be incorporated in the revision. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: empirical plug-in method with independent experimental validation

full rationale

The paper proposes MINER as a lightweight diagnostic-and-fusion plug-in for existing single-vector retrievers. It begins with an empirical layerwise diagnostic to identify retrieval-relevant signals in internal transformer layers, then describes two stages (Retrieval-Aligned Layer Probing and Adaptive Sparse Multi-Layer Fusion) that attach probes and apply neuron-level masking before producing a single dense vector. All performance claims (up to 4.5% nDCG@5 gains on ViDoRe benchmarks) are presented as outcomes of these experiments rather than as predictions derived from equations or fitted parameters. No self-definitional loops, fitted-input predictions, or load-bearing self-citations appear in the derivation chain; the method is explicitly additive and evaluated against external baselines without reducing to its own inputs by construction.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

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The central claim rests on the unverified assumption that internal layers hold isolatable retrieval signals and that lightweight probing plus masking preserves them.

axioms (1)

domain assumption Retrieval-relevant information resides in internal transformer layer representations and can be surfaced by lightweight probes.
Explicitly stated as motivation from the layerwise diagnostic.

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