Equation 5 · How Multimodal Models Actually Handle Video, Audio, and Space
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tokens. Video adds a third factor. If a model attends over T sampled frames, each cut into the same spatial grid, and groups consecutive frames per temporal patch, the token count becomes
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- [1] Video generation models as world simulators ↗
- [3] Language Model Beats Diffusion: Tokenizer is Key to Visual Generation ↗
- [2] VideoPoet: A Large Language Model for Zero-Shot Video Generation ↗
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