Preprint
Aug 2026
Adaptive Hierarchical Representation Alliance for Multimodal Learning
Multimodal models often align language, vision, and audio in a single final-layer latent space, implicitly assuming that task-relevant evidence emerges at the same semantic depth across modalities. Using layer-wise CKA analysis, we observe that this assumption leads to semantic granularity mismatch: textual cues usuall...
Chun-Lei Meng, Peng-Bin Feng, Jacqueline J. Pang et al.
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