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Feature Alignment Determines Fusion Strategy: A Comparative Study of Cross-Attention and Concatenation in Multimodal Learning

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Main Authors:	Zhou, Zhiqiang, Xie, Xuezhen
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2026
Subjects:	Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Machine Learning
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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