Equation 12 · Part 6 · How Multimodal Models Actually Handle Video, Audio, and Space
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What this part means
The expressions on both sides represent the same quantity under the stated assumptions.
Its job in the formula
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
The mechanism that does this at scale is a learned neural codec built around residual vector quantization: an encoder compresses the waveform into a sequence of continuous frames, and each frame is then quantized in successive stages, each stage encoding what the previous stage’s codebook missed. SoundStream is the reference architecture, described by its authors as an end-to-end neural audio codec built on a convolutional encoder-decoder pair with a residual vector quantizer, trained jointly and shown to outperform prior codecs at comparable bitrates [ 7 ] . The mechanism gives a concrete, computable token rate. For a signal sampled at hertz, encoded with hop length h samples per frame,…
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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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