Beyond Global Similarity: Towards Fine-grained, Multi-condition Multimodal Retrieval

Abstract

Recent advances in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have substantially expanded the capabilities of multimodal retrieval, enabling systems to align and retrieve information across visual and textual modalities. Yet, existing benchmarks largely focus on coarse-grained or single-condition alignment, overlooking real-world scenarios where user queries specify multiple interdependent constraints across modalities. To bridge this gap, we introduce MCMR (Multi-Conditional Multimodal Retrieval): a large-scale benchmark designed to evaluate fine-grained, multi-condition cross-modal retrieval under natural-language queries. MCMR spans five product domains: upper and bottom clothing, jewelry, shoes, and furniture. It also preserves rich long-form metadata essential for compositional matching. Each query integrates complementary visual and textual attributes, requiring models to jointly satisfy all specified conditions for relevance. We benchmark a diverse suite of MLLM-based multimodal r

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