DistilVDR: A 524M Compact Visual Document Retriever Distilled from 8B

nanovdr · hf · 2026-08-12

DistilVDR is a compact 524M parameter visual document retriever distilled from an 8B teacher model. Using a dual-student distillation approach with cosine alignment, it achieves near-teacher accuracy without requiring relevance labels, significantly reducing index size and improving retrieval speed.

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