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2026-08-06
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VLMs & Multimodal
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Paper Deep Dive — ViT: Treating an Image Like a Sentence
A reading of the ViT paper (Dosovitskiy et al., 2020/2021) grounded strictly in its own text: the move of treating 16x16 patches as words, what the position-embedding ablation actually showed, the price of dropping the convolutional inductive bias, and how conditional the claim 'beats CNNs at scale' really is.