SmoGVLM: A Small, Graph-enhanced Vision-Language Model
arXiv cs.CV / 4/21/2026
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Key Points
- The paper introduces SmoGVLM, a small vision-language model that uses graph neural networks to integrate structured knowledge across visual and text modalities.
- It targets common issues in large VLMs such as hallucination and weak grounding in knowledge-intensive reasoning.
- The authors evaluate SmoGVLM across multiple model sizes (from 1.3B to 13B) to study how graph-enhanced training affects performance scaling.
- Results show that a small SmoGVLM can improve performance by up to 16.24% and outperform larger VLMs and strong fine-tuned baselines.
- The work suggests that structured knowledge augmentation can enable more efficient, smaller-scale multimodal reasoning systems without relying solely on very large model sizes.
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