Following an image through a VLM: ViT → projector → language model
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The projector is an easy box to skip in a vision-language model diagram. It explains how the visual encoder and the language model meet. Ling-3.0-flash-VL's official architecture diagram is a concrete example. On the visual branch, a ViT encoder produces visual features. A two-layer MLP projector m…
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- 2026-09-09 11:12 · r/learnmachinelearning
Following an image through a VLM: ViT → projector → language model