PENGUIN‑VL: EFFICIENT VISION‑LANGUAGE MODELS

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Tencent AI Lab released Penguin‑VL, a compact VLM family designed to improve multimodal efficiency by redesigning the vision encoder. It introduces Penguin‑Encoder, initialized from a text‑only LLM to align visual features with language representations and improve data‑efficient multimodal reasoning.