Multimodal LLMs process code as images to achieve up to 8x token compression, with visual cues like syntax highlighting aiding tasks and clone detection remaining resilient or even improving under compression.
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CodeOCR: On the Effectiveness of Vision Language Models in Code Understanding
Multimodal LLMs process code as images to achieve up to 8x token compression, with visual cues like syntax highlighting aiding tasks and clone detection remaining resilient or even improving under compression.