@article{towardsphysicsofmultimodalpretrainingkno, title = {Towards Physics of Multimodal Pretraining: Knowledge Flow, Modality Synergy, Early Unification, and Recipes}, author = {Junlin Han and Shengbang Tong and David Fan and Minghao Chen and Philip Torr and Filippos Kokkinos and Mike Lewis}, year = {2026}, eprint = {2608.05000}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.05000}, }