WeMM-Embedding-2B

WeMM-Embedding-2B is a universal multimodal embedding model built on Qwen3.5. It accepts text, images, videos, visual documents, and interleaved multimodal inputs, and returns a 2,048-dimensional L2-normalized embedding. Audio input is not supported.

Installation

pip install torch transformers==5.2.0 "qwen-vl-utils[decord]==0.0.14" \
  "sentence-transformers>=5.7.0" "accelerate>=1.1.0"

Transformers

import torch
from qwen_vl_utils import process_vision_info
from transformers import AutoModel, AutoProcessor

model_id = "tencent/WeMM-Embedding-2B"
processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained(model_id, trust_remote_code=True)
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained(
    model_id, trust_remote_code=True, dtype=torch.bfloat16
).cuda().eval()

messages = [{"role": "user", "content": [
    {"type": "image", "image": "/path/to/image.jpg"},
    {"type": "video", "video": "/path/to/video.mp4"},
    {"type": "text", "text": "This can be any text input."},
]}]
text = processor.apply_chat_template(
    messages, tokenize=False, add_generation_prompt=False
)
images, videos, video_kwargs = process_vision_info(
    messages,
    image_patch_size=16,
    return_video_kwargs=True,
    return_video_metadata=True,
)
if videos is not None:
    videos, video_metadata = zip(*videos)
    videos, video_metadata = list(videos), list(video_metadata)
else:
    video_metadata = None
inputs = processor(
    text=text,
    images=images,
    videos=videos,
    video_metadata=video_metadata,
    return_tensors="pt",
    **video_kwargs,
).to("cuda")

with torch.inference_mode():
    embedding = model.embedding(**inputs)

Use any subset of the content items to encode text, image, or video independently.

Sentence Transformers

from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer

model_id = "tencent/WeMM-Embedding-2B"
model = SentenceTransformer(model_id, trust_remote_code=True)

queries = [
    "Which Llama 4 model variants are available?",
    "How is mapo tofu prepared?",
]
documents = [
    "Mapo tofu is a Sichuan dish of soft tofu simmered in a spicy, numbing sauce of chili bean paste and Sichuan peppercorn.",
    {
        "image": "https://huggingface.co/datasets/sentence-transformers/example-documents/resolve/main/llama4_hgf.png",
    },
    {
        "video": "https://huggingface.co/datasets/sentence-transformers/example-documents/resolve/main/mapo_tofu.mp4",
    },
]

query_embeddings = model.encode_query(queries)
document_embeddings = model.encode_document(documents)
print(query_embeddings.shape, document_embeddings.shape)
# (2, 2048) (3, 2048)

similarities = model.similarity(query_embeddings, document_embeddings)
print(similarities)
# tensor([[0.0685, 0.5379, 0.0423],
#         [0.7829, 0.1852, 0.4729]])

Each input is a string, a URL or path, a PIL.Image, or a dict combining image, video, and text keys. Chat messages such as {"role": "user", "content": [{"type": "image", "image": ...}, {"type": "text", "text": ...}]} are also accepted, which is the way to interleave several images or videos in one input.

Matryoshka Embeddings

embedding_256 = torch.nn.functional.normalize(embedding[..., :256], dim=-1)

With Sentence Transformers, pass truncate_dim and let it renormalize:

embeddings_256 = model.encode_document(documents, truncate_dim=256, normalize_embeddings=True)

Use a dimension listed in model.config.matryoshka_dimensions. On MMEB-v2, 256-dimensional embeddings retain 98.7% of the full-dimensional image and video performance.

Serving

vLLM 0.27.0:

MODEL_PATH=/path/to/WeMM-Embedding-2B
vllm serve "$MODEL_PATH" \
  --runner pooling \
  --chat-template "$MODEL_PATH/embedding_chat_template.jinja"

SGLang 0.5.9:

MODEL_PATH=/path/to/WeMM-Embedding-2B
python patch_sglang_video.py
python -m sglang.launch_server \
  --model-path "$MODEL_PATH" \
  --is-embedding \
  --enable-precise-embedding-interpolation

Evaluation

MMEB-v2

Results on 78 datasets from Table 1 of the technical report. Image and video tasks use Hit@1, while visual-document tasks use NDCG@5. Higher is better.

Model	Size	AVG	Image	Video	VisDoc
VLM2Vec	2B	47.8	59.7	29.0	44.0
GME	2B	55.4	51.9	33.9	76.8
VLM2Vec-V2	2B	59.3	64.9	34.9	69.2
Qwen3-VL-Embedding	2B	73.2	75.0	61.9	79.2
DME-Small†	2B	74.8	75.9	65.6	79.9
WeMM-Embedding	2B	77.9	79.6	70.8	80.7
WeMM-Embedding	4B	79.2	80.8	72.1	82.0
VLM2Vec	8B	53.2	65.5	34.0	49.1
GME	8B	59.2	56.0	38.6	79.3
Qwen3-VL-Embedding	8B	77.8	80.1	67.1	82.4
DME-Medium†	9B	78.4	79.8	70.8	82.0
WeMM-Embedding	9B	80.6	81.9	74.3	83.3

† Closed-source leaderboard submission without publicly released model weights or a public inference endpoint.

MMEB-v3

Results on all 190 tasks from Table 2 of the technical report. V3-All includes the 78 MMEB-v2 tasks, 53 text tasks, 47 agent tasks, 11 audio tasks, and MCMR. Unsupported tasks are assigned a score of zero.

Model	Size	V3-All	Text	Agent	MCMR	Audio
VLM2Vec-V2	2B	38.3	24.5	28.7	4.1	0.0
Omni-Embed-Nemotron	3B	43.5	39.2	36.5	26.1	36.5
E5-Omni	3B	44.6	26.7	36.9	31.9	30.8
Qwen3-VL-Embedding	2B	50.9	39.2	39.3	42.0	0.0
WeMM-Embedding	2B	56.0	45.3	45.1	42.5	0.0
WeMM-Embedding	4B	58.2	47.9	49.0	41.9	0.0
WAVE	7B	26.3	13.7	11.3	8.9	31.8
VLM2Vec	8B	32.9	22.2	19.7	0.9	0.0
LCO-Embedding-Omni	7B	40.6	32.4	27.8	20.0	43.2
GME	8B	43.6	37.1	35.6	27.3	0.0
E5-Omni	7B	47.1	26.9	36.7	41.1	43.0
Tianmu-Emb-Uni	8B	53.3	43.6	39.4	38.8	38.9
Qwen3-VL-Embedding	8B	53.5	42.5	38.4	38.0	0.0
WeMM-Embedding	9B	59.5	48.8	51.0	49.3	0.0

Text results use NDCG@5; agent, MCMR, and audio results use Hit@1.

Citation

If you find this repository useful, please consider giving a star ⭐ and citation

@article{wemm-embedding,
      title={WeMM-Embedding: WeChat Multi-Modal Embedding Technical Report}, 
      author={Junjie Zhou and Ke Mei and Lei Li and Tianyi Wang and Fengyun Rao and Jing Lyu},
      year={2026},
      eprint={2608.24053},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CV},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.24053}, 
}

License

WeMM-Embedding-2B, including the code, model parameters, and weights made publicly available by Tencent, is licensed under the Apache License 2.0. Third-party components remain subject to their respective original licenses.