arxivcs.CVcs.AIcs.LG2026-07-03
RADIO1D: Elastic Representations for Condensed Vision Modeling
Greg Heinrich, Mike Ranzinger, Collin McCarthy, Natan Bagrov, Eugene Khvedchenya, Bryan Catanzaro, et al.
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 t…