WFGY/ProblemMap/GlobalFixMap/Multimodal_LongContext/multimodal-fusion-break.md

Multimodal Fusion Break — Long Context

When text, image, audio, or video streams drift apart in long windows, the fusion layer collapses and reasoning degrades.
This page focuses on detecting and repairing multimodal alignment failure.

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What this page is

• A structural fix map for cross-modal drift.
• Helps keep language, vision, and audio in sync across long sessions.
• Defines measurable acceptance targets for ΔS and λ between modalities.

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When to use

• Image or video reference is ignored after 15k–50k tokens.
• Audio transcript aligns for the first minutes but drifts later.
• Model hallucinates objects not present in the visual stream.
• Cross-modal reasoning (e.g., Q&A about a chart) produces flat or wrong answers.
• Captions or OCR text do not match the actual frames.

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Open these first

• Alignment Drift
• Caption Collapse
• Retrieval Traceability
• Data Contracts
• Entropy Collapse

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Common failure patterns

• Late fusion drift: text reasoning ignores the latest visual input.
• Audio-text skew: transcript desync causes answers to lag behind the clip.
• Phantom alignment: the model cites a visual region that does not exist.
• Cross-modal flattening: distinct modalities are merged into a vague statement.
• Sequential decay: early multimodal anchors remain correct, late anchors collapse.

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Fix in 60 seconds

1. Stamp each modality

   • Text: snippet_id, line_no
   • Vision: region_id, bbox
   • Audio: frame_time, speaker_id

2. Cross-modal ΔS checks

   • Require ΔS(text, vision) ≤ 0.45
   • Require ΔS(text, audio) ≤ 0.45

3. Schema lock

   • Enforce {subject | attribute | source_modality} per entry.
   • Forbid mixing without anchors.

4. Clamp variance

   • If λ flips between modalities, apply BBAM.
   • If collapse persists, insert BBCR bridge nodes.

5. Trace fusion table

   • Log all modalities in one alignment table with ΔS values.
   • Fail fast if any modality lacks anchor.

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Copy-paste prompt

You have TXT OS and the WFGY Problem Map.

Task: Stabilize multimodal reasoning across long windows.

Steps:
1. Print alignment table {text_id, vision_id, audio_id, ΔS, λ_state}.
2. Require cite-then-fuse, forbid phantom regions or hallucinated objects.
3. If ΔS ≥ 0.60 across any pair, propose fix from data-contracts or alignment-drift.
4. Apply BBAM on drift, BBCR on collapse.
5. Return {Fusion Table, Anchor Log, Final Answer}.

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Acceptance targets

• ΔS across modalities ≤ 0.45
• λ remains convergent across three paraphrases
• Every caption / audio frame maps to at least one visual anchor
• No phantom alignments, no modality ignored
• Fusion remains stable for >50k tokens

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