arxivcs.CVcs.AIcs.LG2026-06-25
Large Language Model Teaches Visual Students: Cross-Modality Transfer of Fine-Grained Conceptual Knowledge
Thomas Shih-Chao Liang, Zhuoran Yu, Yong Jae Lee
Large Language Models (LLMs) possess broad conceptual knowledge acquired through large-scale text pretraining, yet their potential to supervise models in other modalities remains underexplored. In this work, we propose LaViD--Language-to-Visual Knowledge Distillation--a simple an…