Multimodal
This wiki entry defines a term used across VSAVM and explains why it matters in the architecture.
The diagram has a transparent background and highlights the operational meaning of the term inside VSAVM.
Related wiki pages: VM, event stream, VSA, bounded closure, consistency contract.
Definition
Multimodal processing integrates multiple input or output modalities such as text, audio, and images.
Role in VSAVM
VSAVM is multimodal by representation: all modalities become event streams. This allows one VM and one correctness contract to operate uniformly across modalities.
Mechanics and implications
Audio becomes transcript events with timing; images and video become symbolic descriptors or discrete tokens. Structural separators define scope even in temporal streams. The VM remains modality-agnostic because it consumes discrete events and canonical facts.
Further reading
Multimodal learning literature is broad. VSAVM’s emphasis is on representation unification and execution-based checking, not on any specific encoder design.
References
Multimodal learning (Wikipedia) Event stream processing (Wikipedia) Computer vision (Wikipedia)