MODUS is a decoder-only architecture that treats all modalities symmetrically, allowing any combination of inputs and outputs without modality-specific heads. This enables the use of strong pre-trained decoder-only models as priors for diverse multimodal tasks.
HOW THIS AFFECTS YOU
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builderYou can build more flexible multimodal applications using a single, unified model architecture.
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researcherThis moves multimodal research toward a unified, symmetric transformer architecture rather than disparate encoder-decoder setups.