Equation 2 · Part 1 · Ten Failure Modes That Define Multimodal AI Systems
Symbol s_text
What this part means
the actual multimodal increment — what the removed channel contributed beyond what text alone already bought.
Its job in the formula
ext is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
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Where the article explains it
The quantity = - is the actual multimodal increment — what the removed channel contributed beyond what text alone already bought.
The passage around this formula
The finding motivates a simple, checkable decomposition rather than a new metric: for any multimodal benchmark, let be the score with all modalities present and be the same benchmark scored with the non-text modality removed. The quantity
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