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SpatialOPSD: spatial intelligence learned through self-distillation

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Source:Hugging Face
A new paper shows how a multimodal model can internalize the spatial reasoning ability of a tool-using agent, cutting Inference cost: the model learns from verified traces of its own executions, with no reliance on external tools.
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