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cs.CV2026
LinguDistill: Recovering Linguistic Ability in Vision-Language Models via Selective Cross-Modal Distillation
Patrick Amadeus Irawan, Erland Hilman Fuadi, Shanu Kumar +2
Turning a pretrained language model (LM) into a vision-language model (VLM) through multimodal fine-tuning often erodes its native language ability, a form of catastrophic forgetti…
cs.CL2026
Litmus (Re)Agent: A Benchmark and Agentic System for Predictive Evaluation of Multilingual Models
Avni Mittal, Shanu Kumar, Sandipan Dandapat +1
We study predictive multilingual evaluation: estimating how well a model will perform on a task in a target language when direct benchmark results are missing. This problem is comm…