# Joint, Decoupled, or Agent: When Each Multimodal Alignment Paradigm Wins

**Published:** October 20, 2026
**Author:** Yi Fang, Gaurav Srivastava, Sirui Ding, Xuan Wang
**Source:** arXiv — cs.AI
**Language:** en-US
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arXiv:2610.24108v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Jointly pretrained multimodal encoders are a common way to combine modalities, while alternatives integrate their information during downstream training or inference. When does each approach win? We compare three paradigms,…

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