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PAND: Prompt-Aware Neighborhood Distillation for Lightweight Fine-Grained Visual Classification

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arXiv:2602. 07768v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Distilling knowledge from large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) into lightweight networks is crucial yet challenging in Fine-Grained Visual Classification (FGVC), due to the reliance on fixed prompts and global alignment.

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