Equation 4 · One Model, Many Modalities: What Multimodal Systems Actually Share
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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. Every deployed system therefore resolves a three-way tension between input resolution, patch size, and context budget, and it resolves it by throwing away detail.
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- [2] An Image is Worth 16x16 Words: Transformers for Image Recognition at Scale ↗
- [3] Neural Discrete Representation Learning ↗
- [4] High Fidelity Neural Audio Compression ↗
- [5] Robust Speech Recognition via Large-Scale Weak Supervision ↗
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