arXiv Machine Learning August 21, 2026 By Nyx Iskandar, Saathvik Selvan, Slater Victoroff

Projector Is All You Train

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arXiv:2608. 19726v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The typical training process of a multimodal large language model (MLLM) involves adapting both the language model backbone and the projector between the backbone and a modality-specific encoder.

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