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ARXIV:2602.11858 · PERCEPTION AI · SUBMITTED 19 MAR · 21:31 UTC · FRESHNESS STALE
ARXIV:2602.11858PERCEPTION AISUBMITTED 19 MAR · 21:31 UTCFRESHNESS STALEarXiv
Region-to-Image Distillation for improving fine-grained multimodal perception in MLLMs.
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Region-to-Image Distillation for improving fine-grained multimodal perception in MLLMs. Recent "Thinking-with-Images" methods alleviate this by iteratively zooming in and out regions of interest during inference, but incur high latency due to repeated tool calls…
Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) excel at broad visual understanding but still struggle with fine-grained perception, where decisive evidence is small and easily overwhelmed by global context. Recent "Thinking-with-Images" methods alleviate this by iteratively…
ScienceToStartup currently rates this 9.0/10 on the public viability pass. After training on such data, the smaller student model improves "single-glance" fine-grained perception without tool use.
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Region-to-Image Distillation for improving fine-grained multimodal perception in MLLMs.
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10.48550/arXiv.2602.11858Region-to-Image Distillation for improving fine-grained multimodal perception in MLLMs.
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Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) excel at broad visual understanding but still struggle with fine-grained perception, where decisive evidence is small and easily overwhelmed by global context. Recent "Thinking-with-Images" methods alleviate this by iteratively zooming in and out regions of interest during inference, but incur high latency due to repeated tool calls and visual re-encoding. To address this, we propose Region-to-Image Distillation, which transforms zooming from an inference-time tool into a training-time primitive, thereby internalizing the benefits of agentic zooming into a single forward pass of an MLLM. In particular, we first zoom in to micro-cropped regions to let strong teacher models generate high-quality VQA data, and then distill this region-grounded supervision back to the full image. After training on such data, the smaller student model improves "single-glance" fine-grained perception without tool use. To rigorously evaluate this capability, we further present ZoomBench, a hybrid-annotated benchmark of 845 VQA data spanning six fine-grained perceptual dimensions, together with a dual-view protocol that quantifies the global--regional "zooming gap". Experiments show that our models achieve leading performance across multiple fine-grained perception benchmarks, and also improve general multimodal cognition on benchmarks such as visual reasoning and GUI agents. We further discuss when "Thinking-with-Images" is necessary versus when its gains can be distilled into a single forward pass. Our code is available at https://github.com/inclusionAI/Zooming-without-Zooming.
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Region-to-Image Distillation for improving fine-grained multimodal perception in MLLMs. Recent "Thinking-with-Images" methods alleviate this by iteratively zooming in and out regions of interest during inference, but incur high latency due to repeated tool calls and visual re-en...
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Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) excel at broad visual understanding but still struggle with fine-grained perception, where decisive evidence is small and easily overwhelmed by global context. Recent "Thinking-with-Images" methods alleviate this by iteratively zooming in...
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ScienceToStartup currently rates this 9.0/10 on the public viability pass. After training on such data, the smaller student model improves "single-glance" fine-grained perception without tool use.
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Perception AI moved forward this cycle; last verified April 2026. Public score 9.0/10.
Region-to-Image Distillation, which transforms zooming from an inference-time tool into a training-time primitive
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the smaller student model improves 'single-glance' fine-grained perception without tool use
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we further present ZoomBench, a hybrid-annotated benchmark of 845 VQA data spanning six fine-grained perceptual dimensions
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also improve general multimodal cognition on benchmarks such as visual reasoning and GUI agents
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the method's efficacy largely depends on the quality and diversity of training data
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