Fusion or Confusion? Multimodal Complexity Is Not All You Need

arXiv:2512.22991 · cs.LG · Submitted 2025-12-28 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2025-12-28

Updated: 2026-10-30

Terminology

• Multimodal Learning — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Methodological Rigor — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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