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Multimodal LLM Architecture

Deep dive into multimodal LLM architecture covering encoders, projection strategies, fusion techniques, three-stage training with DPO, MoE for efficient inference, and adaptive thinking modes.

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Modality-specific encoders

Projection layers for cross-modal alignment

Cross-attention vs early fusion vs late fusion

Training strategies: three-stage with DPO

Handling variable-length visual tokens

Visual Instruction Tuning

Direct Preference Optimization (DPO)

Mixture-of-Experts for efficient inference

Modality gap

Adaptive thinking modes

Flamingo architecture

Perceiver Resampler

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