From Models to Systems: A Comprehensive Survey of Efficient Multimodal Learning
The rapid expansion of multimodal models has surfaced formidable bottlenecks in computation, memory, and deployment, catalyzing the rise of Efficient…
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| Corroboration | 0.35 | 0.39 | +0.135 26% | 1 independent org on the story. Tier-3 aggregators never corroborate — they can show something is circulating, never that it is true. |
| Source trustleads | 0.25 | 0.85 | +0.212 41% | arXiv is the highest-trust source on this story and is first-party — the organisation announcing its own news. Trust is taken from the best source, not averaged. |
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The rapid expansion of multimodal models has surfaced formidable bottlenecks in computation, memory, and deployment, catalyzing the rise of Efficient Multimodal Learning (EML) as a pivotal research frontier. Despite intensive progress, a cohesive understanding of what, how, and where efficiency is manifested across the learning stack remains fragmented. This survey systematizes the EML landscape by introducing the first structured, model-to-system taxonomy. We distill insights from over 300 seminal works into three hierarchical levels--model, algorithm, and system--addressing architectural parsimony, execution refinement, and hardware-aware orchestration, respectively.
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