LLMs & Models3 min read
Multimodal AI
The three-stage rhythm that stops AI from seeing things that aren't there
New research reveals a stable three-stage redistribution of multimodal attention in VLMs, operationalized as the Visual Relay Window (VRW). The TRACE framework uses lightweight trained modules to schedule this window per task, improving grounding-sensitive benchmarks by 4.33 points on average and up to 6.6 points.
2026-07-23