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When Big Models Train Small Ones: Label-Free Model Parity Alignment for Efficient Visual Question Answering using Small VLMs

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Main Authors:	Penamakuri, Abhirama Subramanyam, Singh, Navlika, Arora, Piyush, Mishra, Anand
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2025
Subjects:	Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Artificial Intelligence Computation and Language
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