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Focus Session: Hardware and Software Techniques for Accelerating Multimodal Foundation Models
Apr 27, 2026arXiv Machine Learning
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arXiv:2604.21952v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This work presents a multi-layered methodology for efficiently accelerating multimodal foundation models (MFMs). It combines hardware and software co-design of transformer blocks with an optimization pipeline that reduces computational and memory requi
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