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arXiv cs.LGPaper

The Alignment Illusion in Multimodal Large Language Models

This is a real finding about how alignment metrics mislead us. MLLMs look well-integrated because the language decoder pulls visual and text tokens toward the same directions, not because they actually fuse. For teams building or evaluating MLLMs: your alignment score is measuring architecture, not understanding. You need intervention-based diagnostics to see what's really happening.