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V-REX: Efficient Specialist VLM Training for Veterinary X-Rays

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TL;DR - V-REX is a specialist vision-language model trained from scratch to generate diagnostic reports for veterinary radiographs. It challenges the assumption that domain expertise requires fine-tuning large foundation models, reporting better task performance with substantially fewer parameters, data, and compute.

  • Redesigns the full VLM pipeline, including tokenization, generative pre-training, grounding, and inference.
  • Introduces training strategies intended to improve data utilization, efficiency, and downstream performance.
  • Uses only veterinary radiology data rather than relying on external foundation-model training data.
  • Reports significant gains over open foundation models, though the provided abstract gives no quantitative results.

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V-REX: Efficient Specialist VLM Training for Veterinary X-Rays

arXiv cs.CV Tim Elsner, Nicole McNally, Andre Dourson, Michael Fitzke 2026-08-20 arXiv:2608.20069
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TL;DR - V-REX is a specialist vision-language model trained from scratch to generate diagnostic reports for veterinary radiographs. It challenges the assumption that domain expertise requires fine-tuning large foundation models, reporting better task performance with substantially fewer parameters, data, and compute.

  • Redesigns the full VLM pipeline, including tokenization, generative pre-training, grounding, and inference.
  • Introduces training strategies intended to improve data utilization, efficiency, and downstream performance.
  • Uses only veterinary radiology data rather than relying on external foundation-model training data.
  • Reports significant gains over open foundation models, though the provided abstract gives no quantitative results.
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