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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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