Why Removing the Vision Encoder Can Be Better — From an Infra Perspective
liuziwei7 · x · 2026-08-19
Discusses the value of Encoder-Free multimodal models like NEO/SenseNova-U. Beyond research intuition, the author argues that from an infra perspective, the key advantage is that it changes as little as possible about the mature LLM training stack. This may be why scale-first labs are interested. A short post breaks down these infra advantages.
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