NanoVDR: Distilling a 2B Vision-Language Retriever into a 70M Text-Only Encoder for Visual Document Retrieval explores NanoVDR distills a large vision-language model into a lightweight text-only encoder for efficient visual document retrieval.. Commercial viability score: 8/10 in Visual Document Retrieval.
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