Code and artifacts for "The Cost of Language: Centroid Erasure Exposes and Exploits Modal Competition in Multimodal Language Models" (COLM 2026). Centroid replacement, a training-free probe for text-vs-visual dependence in multimodal LMs, and text centroid contrastive decoding (TCCD) are included.
interpretability multimodal representation-analysis llm mllm multimodal-large-language-models vision-language-models contrastive-decoding colm2026 modality-measurement
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Jul 29, 2026 - Python