arXiv AI
Sep 16

OPD-Aha: From Linguistic Momentum to Visual Reflection in Multimodal On-Policy Distillation

OPD‑Aha is a privileged on‑policy distillation method that improves multimodal reasoning by reconstructing the distillation target from the teacher’s isolated visual preference instead of relying on fragile teacher‑student discrepancies. It suppresses continuations that contradict the image, encouraging students to interrupt flawed reasoning with reflection tokens such as "wait" and "actually." This approach leads to consistent improvements across fine‑grained perception and complex multimodal reasoning benchmarks.

By Chenhao Qiu, Dawei Li, Yechao Zhang, Lei Gong, Zhen Tan
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 9

OpenVisTool: An Open Recipe for Synthesizing Instructive Visual Tool-Use Trajectories

Visual tool use has emerged as a fundamental capability for multimodal agents to actively acquire evidence beyond a fixed image encoding. The prevailing recipe learns this capability from teacher-generated trajectories filtered for answer correctness, implicitly assuming that every successful demonstration provides effective supervision.

arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 3

CA-OPD: Confidence-Aware On-Policy Distillation for Structured Visual Prediction

CA-OPD is a confidence‑aware on‑policy distillation framework that improves structured visual prediction by using teacher confidence to selectively correct unreliable student transitions and gradually transfer rollout control to the student. The method aligns supervision with intervention decisions, providing direct cross‑entropy loss for corrected tokens and full predictive distribution for retained tokens. In a multi‑teacher setting for GUI grounding and OCR, CA‑OPD significantly outperforms the Qwen3.5‑0.8B baseline, achieving large gains on benchmarks such as ScreenSpot‑Pro and OCRBench‑v2 English.

By Menghao Li, Linjie Mu, Yin Wang, Haotian Hu, Yannian Gu, Lujiayi Xue, Fanyi Wang