AI engineering glossary · Generative media multimodal

What is perceiver resampler?

Perceiver resampler: A module that compresses a variable number of visual features into a fixed small set of tokens using cross-attention with learned latent queries, keeping the language model's input short. It is used in Flamingo-style models.

Level: advancedTopic: Generative media multimodal

Perceiver resampler: an example

Frames from a video produce thousands of patch features, which the resampler reduces to 64 visual tokens.

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