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Mar 19, 2025 · Artificial Intelligence

Understanding Multimodal Large Language Models: Part 1

This article explains the fundamentals of multimodal large language models, covering their definition, typical applications, two main architectural approaches—unified embedding decoder and cross‑modal attention—along with detailed component breakdowns, a PyTorch implementation of image‑patch projection, and training considerations, ending with a discussion of trade‑offs between the methods.