Equation 1 · Part 5 · One Model, Many Modalities: What Multimodal Systems Actually Share
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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
For images the dominant answer is patchification, introduced at scale by the Vision Transformer: cut the image into a grid of non-overlapping square patches, flatten each, and project it linearly into the model’s embedding dimension, so that a pure transformer applied directly to sequences of image patches performs competitively with convolutional networks when pre-trained on enough data [ 2 ] . The token count follows immediately from the geometry, . for an image of height H and width W at patch size P . The quadratic relationship is the entire practical story of image tokenisation. Halving the patch size quadruples the sequence, and attention cost grows faster still.…
Learn the underlying idea
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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