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Perception Before Supervision: Self-Contained Visual Distillation from Counterfactual Blind Spots

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Self-improvement for multimodal large language models (MLLMs) is typically driven by reward-based methods that provide only coarse scalar feedback. Distillation offers a richer alternative through dense token-level supervision, but in the visual domain it usually depends on privileged context constructed using external annotations and tools, or stronger models.

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Self-Boosting Vision-Language Models with Noisy Student On-Policy Self-Distillation

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arXiv Machine Learning

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By Kanghui Tian, Siyuan Liu, Ziang Yan, Sheng Xia, Shuai Dong, Yi Wang

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