arxivcs.CLcs.CV2026-07-24
Scaling Native Multimodal Pre-Training From Scratch
Haoyuan Wu, Aoqi Wu, Hai Wang, Jiajia Wu, Jinxiang Ou, Bei Yu
Although large language models (LLMs) exhibit remarkable reasoning capabilities, their reliance on text-only pre-training restricts the perception of the multimodal physical world. Native multimodal pre-training avoids this limitation by training models from scratch on multimodal…