Distilling Visual Reasoning into Text Space
Distills a teacher's interleaved visual and textual reasoning into a student that no longer generates intermediate visual representations. The student still writes a textual chain of thought; what is internalized is the visual portion of the reasoning.
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arXiv:2609.34408 · Initial submission: 2026-09-28
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Internalized reasoning — Learn from worked solutions so that some or all of the reasoning can later happen without writing those steps. Training may use a separate teacher model or progressively remove written steps from the model being trained.
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