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Distilling Vision-Language Models for On-Device Fire Understanding

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 5, 2026 · UTC

Vision-language models (VLMs) offer a promising alternative to conventional fire detection systems by reasoning about the semantic context of a scene and thus reducing false alarms, yet their large model size makes deployment on embedded fire sensors impractical. In this paper, we study how domain-specialized VLMs can be compressed for fully on-device deployment without losing the safety-critical behavior required for fire detection. We develop a teacher-student knowledge distillation framework in which large VLMs fine-tuned for fire understanding can be distilled into lightweight students. Ex

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