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Ritesh Thawkar

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Preprint Aug 2026

Perception Before Supervision: Self-Contained Visual Distillation from Counterfactual Blind Spots

This work introduces CVPD (Contrastive Counterfactual Visual Process Distillation), which is the first fully self-contained framework for dense, on-policy, token-level visual self-distillation for MLLMs, and proposes a three-gate Counterfactual Criterion that identifies visual blind spots where zooming into a region changes and sharpens the model's answer distribution.

Shravan Venkatraman, Omkar Thawakar, Ritesh Thawkar et al. · 1 citation