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Mitigating Visual Degradation in MLLMs via Spatial-Spectral Visual Anchor Learning

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Despite the progress of multimodal large language models (MLLMs), they continue to exhibit deficiencies in visual perception. Following visual instruction tuning, internal MLLM representations rapidly deviate from their original semantic states during inference, causing severe information degradation.

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