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Masking Teacher and Reinforcing Student for Distilling Vision-Language Models research paper by NVIDIA, 2025

NVIDIA · Dec 23, 2025 · Multimodal and robotics · 6 citations · 30 upvotes · unverified

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Large-scale vision-language models (VLMs) have recently achieved remarkable multimodal understanding, but their massive size makes them impractical for deployment on mobile or edge devices.

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Authors
Byung-Kwan Lee, Yu-Chiang Frank Wang, Ryo Hachiuma
arXiv
2512.22238 · PDF
Venue
arXiv.org
Citations
6, 1 influential · Semantic Scholar
Upvotes
30 · Hugging Face
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Influential citationsfirst count: 1Sep 25, 2026
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