arXiv AI By Hassan Shapourian, Kasra Hejazi, Olabode M. Sule, Beren Millidge

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arXiv:2606. 00390v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present Zamba2-VL, a suite of vision-language models built on Zamba2, a hybrid language-model architecture combining Mamba2 state-space layers with a small number of shared transformer blocks.

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