@article{llavackdbottomupcascadedknowledgedistill, title = {LLaVA-CKD: Bottom-Up Cascaded Knowledge Distillation for Vision-Language Models}, author = {Nikolaos Gkalelis and Vasileios Mezaris}, year = {2026}, eprint = {2605.10641}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.10641}, }