2. Why are transformers a natural fit for multimodal models?
- They only work on text, so other modalities are converted to words
- They need no training data
- They run faster than any other architecture on images
- They operate on any sequence of vectors, whatever modality produced it
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जवाब: They operate on any sequence of vectors, whatever modality produced it
Self-attention works on sequences of embeddings. Once images or audio are cut into vectors, the same layers apply.
पाठ: Prerequisites: Tensors, Embeddings and Transformers
3. A product team has a good image classifier and a good text classifier, very little paired data, and inputs where the image is often missing. Which fusion is the sensible start?
- Late fusion of the two models' scores
- Early fusion of raw pixels and tokens
- Training a vision-language model from scratch
- Dropping the text model entirely
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जवाब: Late fusion of the two models' scores
Late fusion reuses both models, needs little paired data and degrades gracefully when one modality is absent.
पाठ: Fusion Strategies: Early, Late and In-Between