BGE-VL-v1.5-zs
by BAAI
Zero-shot multimodal retrieval from BAAI's MegaPairs-trained BGE-VL family
BAAI/BGE-VL-v1.5-zsmixpeek://image_extractor@v1/baai_bge_vl_15_zs_v1Overview
BGE-VL v1.5 ZS is a zero-shot vision-language embedding model trained for universal multimodal retrieval. The BGE-VL family uses MegaPairs, a large synthetic triplet dataset for image, text, and composed image retrieval, to improve retrieval generalization beyond standard CLIP-style contrastive pairs.
On Mixpeek, BGE-VL v1.5 ZS is useful when agents need instruction-style visual retrieval over screenshots, product images, documents, and video frames. It can retrieve by text, image, or combined text-plus-image intent before a heavier VLM reads the selected evidence.
Architecture
Sentence Transformers compatible multimodal embedding model based on an LLaVA-NeXT style vision-language backbone. It maps text, image, and composed text-image inputs into a shared retrieval space and supports task prompts for query formatting.
Mixpeek SDK Integration
// No extractor parameter takes a Hugging Face model id (checked against
// GET /v1/discovery/extractors, which returns 13), so BGE-VL-v1.5-zs runs
// on your side and the output is upserted through POST
// /v1/namespaces/{namespace_id}/documents/upsert. On Enterprise the other
// path is to upload the weights instead: POST /v1/namespaces/{id}/models
// accepts the huggingface format and a custom plugin loads them.
const res = await fetch(
"https://api.mixpeek.com/v1/namespaces/ns_your_namespace/documents/upsert",
{
method: "POST",
headers: {
Authorization: "Bearer API_KEY",
"Content-Type": "application/json",
},
body: JSON.stringify({
collection_id: "col_your_collection",
documents: [
{
document_id: "asset-00412",
// The vector name has to match a vector index on the collection.
vectors: { "image-embedding": yourVector },
payload: { source_key: "archive/2026/asset-00412" },
},
],
}),
},
);
// Managed alternative, if this exact model is not the requirement:
// image_extractor@v1 runs google/siglip-base-patch16-224
// (768-d) over a bucket, with no inference of your own.Capabilities
- Zero-shot text-image and composed image retrieval
- Instruction-style prompts for query embeddings
- Sentence Transformers integration
- MIT license
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Specification
Research Paper
MegaPairs: Massive Data Synthesis for Universal Multimodal Retrieval
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