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Equation 7 · Part 3 · Building a Multimodal AI Application That Actually Uses Its Inputs

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Δm=Accfull−Accablate(m).\Delta_m = \mathrm{Acc}_{\mathrm{full}} - \mathrm{Acc}_{\mathrm{ablate}(m)}.
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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 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 hypothetical failure mode. Agrawal and colleagues showed that VQA models trained and evaluated under the field’s original data splits could reach strong scores while relying heavily on the language prior in…

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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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