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MODUS: Decoder-Only Any-to-Any Modeling of Diverse Modalities
arXiv cs.AI · Published · 3 min read
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- What happened
- MODUS is a decoder-only model that handles any-to-any multimodal prediction, accepting arbitrary modalities as inputs and outputs within a single unified network.
- Why it matters
- Relevant for engineers building multimodal systems who want to avoid training specialized encoder-decoder architectures and leverage pre-trained decoder models.
- Watch out
- Paper is recent and acceptance at ICML 2026 is stated; actual performance gains over specialist baselines and real-world deployment characteristics remain to be validated.
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