New VLM paper finds image and text align from layer 1 in newer models
stanislavfort · x · 2026-07-22
A VLM paper challenges the common belief that image and text representations only align in the late layers.
- The authors used DeepDream-style optimization on Gemma 3.
- They found alignment appears from layer 1 in newer models, rather than only in the top layers.
- The post points to a paper co-authored by evzenwy, javirandor, floriantramer, and stanislavfort.
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