Do VLMs Need Vision Transformers? Evaluating State Space Models as Vision Encoders
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Source paper: Do VLMs Need Vision Transformers? Evaluating State Space Models as Vision Encoders
PDF: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.19209v1
Repository: https://github.com/raykuo18/vlm-ssm-vision-encoders
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