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Chain-of-Visual-Thought: Teaching VLMs to See and Think Better with Continuous Visual Tokens

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Main Authors:	Qin, Yiming, Wei, Bomin, Ge, Jiaxin, Kallidromitis, Konstantinos, Fu, Stephanie, Darrell, Trevor, Wang, XuDong
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2025
Subjects:	Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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