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Thinking Without Images: Internalizing Visual Manipulation with On-Policy Self-Distillation

arXiv:2606.08719v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: ''Thinking with Images'' has emerged as an effective paradigm for fine-grained visual reasoning: by explicitly zooming into relevant regions and reasoning over crops, models can access local evidence that is difficult to recover from a single global image. However, this benefit comes with redundant tool invocations and longer inference traces. Moreover, when such behaviors are learned mainly from outcome reward, the resulting intermediate crops...