Look Where It Matters: High-Resolution Crops Retrieval for Efficient VLMs

arXiv:2603.16932 · cs.CV, cs.AI · Submitted 2026-03-14 · Read on arXiv

cs.CV, cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-03-14

Updated: 2026-09-23

Code: https://github.com/huggingface/trl

Project page: https://nimrodshabtay.github.io/AwaRes

Terminology

• GRPO — 40× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Accuracy — 37× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 22× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Pruning — 10× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Grounding — 8× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Ablation — 6× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Reasoning Traces — 5× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Trace — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Transformer — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 4× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• LLM judge — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning — 4× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• LLM-as-a-Judge — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Sparsity — 3× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Calibration — 2× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition — 2× in this paper
• Hallucination — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• KL Regularization — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Regularization — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Robustness — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) — 2× in this paper · explained in 8 episodes
• Vision-Language Models (VLMs) — 2× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• alpha — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Cosine Similarity — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Decoupling — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Embeddings — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• External Validation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• F1 Score — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Fidelity — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Instruction Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• KV cache — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Multimodal Reasoning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Reward Function — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Sample Complexity — 1× in this paper · explained in 15 episodes
• Semantic Understanding — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Qwen3-VL Technical Report
• Qwen2.5-VL Technical Report
• The Llama 3 Herd of Models
• MANTIS: Interleaved Multi-Image Instruction Tuning
• DeepSeek-V3.2: Pushing the Frontier of Open Large Language Models

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