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MIL Perspective: Analyzing Q-Former as a Multi-Head Mechanism

MIL Perspective: Analyzing Q-Former as a Multi-Head Mechanism

Update: 2025-11-15
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Proves Q-Former is a Multi-Head MIL module due to permutation invariance in its cross-attention.

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Proves Q-Former is a Multi-Head MIL module due to permutation invariance in its cross-attention. Notes its limitation: it assumes i.i.d. instances, overlooking crucial instance correlation.

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MIL Perspective: Analyzing Q-Former as a Multi-Head Mechanism

MIL Perspective: Analyzing Q-Former as a Multi-Head Mechanism

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