arxivcs.CVcond-mat.mtrl-scics.AIcs.LG2026-07-12
Answer-Conditioned Chain-of-Thought Distillation for Few-Shot Industrial Vision with Small VLMs
Deploying AI-based visual inspection in manufacturing is hard because requirements change often, new defect types appear, and large labeled datasets are rarely available. We propose answer-conditioned chain-of-thought (CoT) distillation for rapidly adapting small vision-language…