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Equation 9 · Building a Multimodal AI Application That Actually Uses Its Inputs

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Δimage\Delta_{\mathrm{image}}

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Δimage\Delta_{\mathrm{image}}

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Slice the ablation results by task subtype , because an aggregate delta hides subtypes where the shortcut is total. A visual question answering system can show a healthy aggregate Δimage\Delta_{\mathrm{image}} while still answering every counting question from the question text alone.

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