Equation 8 · Adapters, Native Pretraining, and Unified Tokens: The Main Multimodal Architectures, Compared
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All of here is shared and randomly initialised at t=0 , and no term is held fixed while another is optimised. That is the formal content of “native”: contrast it with the modular recipe, where the vision and language terms are each minimised separately, over separate data, to convergence, long before the two are ever combined.
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- [4] Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models ↗
- [5] Language Is Not All You Need: Aligning Perception with Language Models ↗
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