AI RESEARCH
What Matters for Grocery Product Retrieval with Open Source Vision Language Models
arXiv CS.CV
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ArXi:2605.18029v1 Announce Type: new Multimodal product retrieval (MPR) underpins checkout-free retail and automated inventory systems, yet it demands fine-grained SKU discrimination that standard vision-language benchmarks fail to capture. We present the first systematic zero-shot evaluation of 190 open-source VLMs on the MPR task of the GroceryVision Challenge, isolating pre-