The Topology of Multimodal Fusion: Why Current Architectures Fail at Creative Cognition

arXiv:2604.04465v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper identifies a structural limitation in current multimodal AI architectures that is topological rather than parametric. Contrastive alignment (CLIP), cross-attention fusion (GPT-4V/Gemini), and diffusion-based generation share a common...