Multimodal models learn when to look and how long to reason

L2T places visual and textual computation in one token sequence, then adapts both the reasoning mode and computation budget to each task.

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Quanlin Chen · Xiuwei Chen · Kun Xiang · Zehua Ma · Chunjin Ye · Boqiang Guo · +2 more

Sun Yat-sen University · Shenzhen Loop Area Institute · Beijing Zhongguancun Academy · Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd · Harbin Institute of Technology

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Chen et al.

The authors first trained a vector-quantized visual tokenizer, called VQ-VT, to encode intermediate visual states produced by tools such as cropping, zooming or image transformation.

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From Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd and 4 others · Part of Visual Token Efficiency, now 4 papers

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L2T jointly optimizes the form and depth of computation for multimodal reasoning.

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