LinMU achieves linear-complexity multimodal understanding by swapping self-attention for an M-MATE dual-branch block and distilling from a frozen teacher VLM, matching accuracy with up to 2.7x faster TTFT and 9x higher throughput.
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LinMU: Multimodal Understanding Made Linear
LinMU achieves linear-complexity multimodal understanding by swapping self-attention for an M-MATE dual-branch block and distilling from a frozen teacher VLM, matching accuracy with up to 2.7x faster TTFT and 9x higher throughput.