Representations of Text and Images Align From Layer One
arXiv:2601.08017v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We show that for a variety of concepts in adapter-based vision-language models, the representations of their images and their text descriptions are meaningfully aligned from the very first layer. This contradicts the established view that such image-text alignment only appears in late layers. We show this using a new synthesis-based method inspired by DeepDream: given a textual concept such as “Jupiter”, we extract its concept vector at a given layer, and then use […]