@inproceedings{penamakuri-etal-2025-big, title = "When Big Models Train Small Ones: Label-Free Model Parity Alignment for Efficient Visual Question Answering using Small {VLM}s", author = "Penamakuri, Abhirama Subramanyam and Singh, Navlika and Arora, Piyush and Mishra, Anand", editor = "Christodoulopoulos, Christos and Chakraborty, Tanmoy and Rose, Carolyn and Peng, Violet", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing", month = nov, year = "2025", address = "Suzhou, China", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-emnlp/2025.emnlp-main.1613/", pages = "31632--31649", ISBN = "979-8-89176-332-6" }