Multimodal LLMs perceive numbers accurately across modalities but fail at multi-digit multiplication, with performance predicted by an arithmetic load metric C and degradation confirmed as computational rather than perceptual.
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Multiplication in Multimodal LLMs: Computation with Text, Image, and Audio Inputs
Multimodal LLMs perceive numbers accurately across modalities but fail at multi-digit multiplication, with performance predicted by an arithmetic load metric C and degradation confirmed as computational rather than perceptual.