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Aug 2026
Why Vision Fails as a Universal Bridge: Rectifying Modality Asynchrony in Multilingual MLLMs
Through rigorous mechanistic analysis, this work identifies the Ghost Anchor phenomenon: a temporal modality asynchrony where linguistic translation to the English semantic manifold completes in early layers, while visual semanticization remains immature.
Yihang Du, Juhao Liang, Zheng-Zhao Lai et al.
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