Chain-of-Adaptation: Surgical Vision-Language Adaptation with Reinforcement Learning

ArXi:2603.20116v1 Announce Type: cross Conventional fine-tuning on domain-specific datasets can inadvertently alter a model's pretrained multimodal priors, leading to reduced generalization. To address this, we propose Chain-of-Adaptation (CoA), an adaptation framework designed to integrate domain knowledge while maintaining the model's inherent reasoning and perceptual capabilities. CoA