AIBullisharXiv – CS AI · 4h ago7/10
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Chain-of-Models Pre-Training: Rethinking Training Acceleration of Vision Foundation Models
Researchers present Chain-of-Models Pre-Training (CoM-PT), a novel method that accelerates vision foundation model training by up to 7.09X through sequential knowledge transfer from smaller to larger models in a unified pipeline, rather than training each model independently. The approach maintains or improves performance while significantly reducing computational costs, with efficiency gains increasing as more models are added to the training sequence.