Equation 3 · Part 2 · Ten Failure Modes That Define Multimodal AI Systems
Symbol s_multi
What this part means
the large.
Its job in the formula
ulti is one of the signed contributions combined to compute the quantity on the left.
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A large with a small is not evidence of multimodal competence; it is evidence that the benchmark, not the model, is doing something unimodal.
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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 . is the actual multimodal increment — what the removed channel contributed beyond what text alone already bought. A large…
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