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Recent years have witnessed a surge in deep learning research, marked by the introduction of expansive generative models like OpenAI's SORA and GPT, Meta AI's LLAMA series, and Google's FLAN, BART, and Gemini models. However, the rapid…

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Multimodal LLM datasets are inherently heterogeneous, with significant data variability. Although each modality exhibits independent variability, sample-level entanglement makes it difficult to balance workloads across both modalities and…