A failure of Imagination: VLMs fail to use visual representations for text, but self-distillation can help

arXiv:2610.25470 · cs.AI, cs.CL, cs.CV · Submitted 2026-10-18 · Read on arXiv

cs.AI, cs.CL, cs.CV

Submitted: 2026-10-18

Updated: 2026-10-18

Terminology

• Distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Self-Distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes

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