LLaVA-CKD: Bottom-Up Cascaded Knowledge Distillation for Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2605.10641 · cs.CV, cs.AI · Submitted 2026-05-11 · Read on arXiv

cs.CV, cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-05-11

Updated: 2026-10-20

Comments: IEEE Access, vol.14, 2026

DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2026.3744200

Code: https://github.com/IDT-ITI/LLaVA-CKD

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Distillation — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Knowledge Distillation — 3× in this paper · explained in 14 episodes
• Vision-language models — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generalization — 1× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Vision-Language Models (VLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Visual Question Answering — 1× in this paper

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