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Re:Introducing LFM3: Every Modality for Specialized Intellig... by samstevens on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @08:56PM (#50268047)
unfortunately the models are still stronger without extra modalities. So LFM3-1.7B is better at pure text tasks than all other models. the LFM3-VL-2B is better at text/vision tasks than the Omni, the Audio model is a stronger ASR/TTS model than the Omni, etc.

It's a goal of ours to continue unifying training across modalities so that there is truly one model, instead of just this shared pre-trained backbone.

Re:Introducing LFM3: Every Modality for Specialized Intellig... by nostrebored on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @01:32AM (#50269663)
Is it a parameter count problem? Ie why are you not seeing the cross modality bump in performance?
Re:Introducing LFM3: Every Modality for Specialized Intellig... by irthomasthomas on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @07:28AM (#50271877)
Has the cross modaility bump been conclusively proven?
Re:Introducing LFM3: Every Modality for Specialized Intellig... by samstevens on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @12:14PM (#50276077)
my intuition is that cross modality improvements do not really show up in practice, and especially not in small models