Disentangling Visual Encoding Choices in Multimodal Models
November 11, 2026
This framework isolates the effects of visual priors, dedicated vision capacity, and pre-fusion placement by training models from scratch on common data. Results show how these components independently affect performance on visual question answering.
HOW THIS AFFECTS YOU
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researcherYou can see exactly which part of a vision encoder contributes most to model performance.