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Karl Pazdernik

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

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Multimodal Models (1)Open-Source Models & Weights (1)Training Efficiency & Optimization (1)

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Sameera Horawalavithana (1)Lauren Phillips (1)Ian Stewart (1)Sai Munikoti (1)

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Apr 13, 2026

National LaboratoryApr 13, 2026·also JHU, of the Rockies, PNNL, RPI

Back to the Barn with LLAMAs: Evolving Pretrained LLM Backbones in Finetuning Vision Language Models

Swapping in the latest LLM backbone doesn't guarantee a better VLM – sometimes it just solves *different* problems.

Sameera Horawalavithana, Lauren Phillips, Ian Stewart +2

Multimodal Models Open-Source Models & Weights Training Efficiency & Optimization