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Equation 7 · Part 2 · Building a Multimodal AI Application That Actually Uses Its Inputs

Symbol m

Δm=Accfull−Accablate(m).\Delta_m = \mathrm{Acc}_{\mathrm{full}} - \mathrm{Acc}_{\mathrm{ablate}(m)}.
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m is part of the quantity the equation computes from the expression on the right.

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m is part of the quantity the equation computes from the expression on the right.

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The formal version is a simple, reportable metric. For a task with a full-input accuracy Accfull\mathrm{Acc}_{\mathrm{full}} and an accuracy Accablate(m)\mathrm{Acc}_{\mathrm{ablate}(m)} measured with modality m removed, blanked, or replaced with noise, define Δm=Accfull−Accablate(m)\Delta_m = \mathrm{Acc}_{\mathrm{full}} - \mathrm{Acc}_{\mathrm{ablate}(m)}. A small Δm\Delta_m for a modality the task specification says should matter is the signature of a unimodal shortcut: the model is scoring well on the full-input evaluation without actually depending on that channel. This is not a…

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