2026
RADIO1D: Elastic Representations for Condensed Vision Modeling
Greg Heinrich, Mike Ranzinger, Collin McCarthy, Natan Bagrov, Eugene Khvedchenya, Bryan Catanzaro +3
ICML 2026poster
This paper challenges the assumption that vision-language models (VLMs) require fixed patch-based 2D vision features. Analyzing fine-tuned vision encoders, we find that representations become increasingly abstract and less spatially coherent during VLM training. Notably, models trained with image-te…