[Legacy] Compass: Developing a Japanese Financial Vision-Language Model (FT-LLM 2026 version)
[Legacy / FT-LLM 2026 version] Compass, a Japanese Vision-Language Model specialized for financial document understanding. This is the earlier write-up of the Compass project, framed for the FT-LLM 2026 free-form task. The latest version — re-framed as a study of staged continual adaptation for the CATS Workshop @ ICML 2026 — is available at /mysite/blog/compass/.