Not a neutral survey — a field manual for engineers who build, train, and ship multimodal retrieval at production scale. The C-L-I triangle (Compression · Localization · Instruction), MLLM encoders vs late interaction, MUVERA economics, and falsifiable forecasts through 2030.
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