arXiv Machine Learning By Zhuoming Liu, Jinhong Lin, Kwan Man Cheng, Lin Zhang, Shayok Bagchi, Yin Li

DRIFT: A Residual Flow Adapter for Decoding Continuous Outputs in Vision-Language Models

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arXiv:2606. 05758v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Many modern vision-language models (VLMs) build on autoregressive decoding of discrete tokens.

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