Equation 9 · Part 8 · Adapters, Native Pretraining, and Unified Tokens: The Main Multimodal Architectures, Compared
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The expressions on both sides represent the same quantity under the stated assumptions.
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The equals sign connects the complete expression on the left with the complete expression on the right. Both sides must have compatible units.
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The passage around this formula
Meta’s Chameleon commits to the same principle at a much larger scale and is candid that stability, not capability, was the hard engineering problem. It describes itself as “a family of early-fusion token-based mixed-modal models” that interleaves image and text tokens in one sequence, generating either kind at any position, and its authors state directly that this “requires a stable training approach from inception, an alignment recipe, and an architectural parameterization tailored for the early-fusion, token-based, mixed-modal setting” [ 7 ] . The paper documents the failure mode this addresses concretely: without a query-key normalisation step controlling the growth of attention logits,…
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An equals sign says that the expression on its left and the expression on its right have the same value under the stated definitions and assumptions.
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Sources cited in the surrounding passage
- [7] Chameleon: Mixed-Modal Early-Fusion Foundation Models ↗
- [8] CM3: A Causal Masked Multimodal Model of the Internet ↗
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