Gromov-Wasserstein distance between modalities provides a stronger, inference-only predictor of final VLM performance than conventional encoder metrics, backed by theory linking it to cross-modal learnability and verified across 60+ training runs.
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SMoES improves MoE-VLM performance and efficiency via soft modality-guided expert routing and inter-bin mutual information regularization, yielding 0.9-4.2% task gains and 56% communication reduction.
A 0.5B student VLM distills from a 3B teacher using visual-switch distillation and DBiLD loss to gain 3.6 points on average across 10 multimodal benchmarks without architecture changes.