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Vision Transformers (ViTs) have achieved state-of-the-art accuracy on various computer vision tasks. However, their high computational complexity prevents them from being applied to many real-world applications. Weight and token pruning are…

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The adoption of Vision Transformers (ViTs) in resource-constrained applications necessitates improvements in inference throughput. To this end several token pruning and merging approaches have been proposed that improve efficiency by…

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Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) achieve superior image generation quality but suffer from quadratic computational complexity relative to token count. While various token reduction (TR) methods have been proposed to mitigate this cost, they…

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Vision Transformers (ViTs) have shown impressive performance in computer vision, but their high computational cost, quadratic in the number of tokens, limits their adoption in computation-constrained applications. However, this large number…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Yifei Liu , Mathias Gehrig , Nico Messikommer , Marco Cannici , Davide Scaramuzza

Recently it has been shown that deep learning-based image compression has shown the potential to outperform traditional codecs. However, most existing methods train multiple networks for multiple bit rates, which increases the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-13 Mohammad Akbari , Jie Liang , Jingning Han , Chengjie Tu

In this paper, we propose a novel variable rate deep compression architecture that operates on raw 3D point cloud data. The majority of learning-based point cloud compression methods work on a downsampled representation of the data.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Md Ahmed Al Muzaddid , William J. Beksi

Unified models aim to support both understanding and generation by encoding images into discrete tokens and processing them alongside text within a single autoregressive framework. This unified design offers architectural simplicity and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Ziyao Wang , Chen Chen , Jingtao Li , Weiming Zhuang , Jiabo Huang , Ang Li , Lingjuan Lyu

Recently, many neural network-based image compression methods have shown promising results superior to the existing tool-based conventional codecs. However, most of them are often trained as separate models for different target bit rates,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-09 Jooyoung Lee , Seyoon Jeong , Munchurl Kim

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have emerged as state-of-the-art models for various vision tasks recently. However, their heavy computation costs remain daunting for resource-limited devices. To address this, researchers have dedicated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Ao Wang , Hui Chen , Zijia Lin , Sicheng Zhao , Jungong Han , Guiguang Ding

Acceleration methods for diffusion models (e.g., token merging or downsampling) typically optimize synthesis quality under reduced compute, yet often ignore discriminative capacity. We revisit token compression with a joint objective and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Jiacheng Liu , Shengkun Tang , Jiacheng Cui , Dongkuan Xu , Zhiqiang Shen

We propose a versatile deep image compression network based on Spatial Feature Transform (SFT arXiv:1804.02815), which takes a source image and a corresponding quality map as inputs and produce a compressed image with variable rates. Our…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-24 Myungseo Song , Jinyoung Choi , Bohyung Han

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have achieved remarkable success across various vision tasks, yet their deployment is often hindered by prohibitive computational costs. While structured weight pruning and token compression have emerged as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Hyunchan Moon , Cheonjun Park , Steven L. Waslander

As Vision Transformers (ViTs) increasingly set new benchmarks in computer vision, their practical deployment on inference engines is often hindered by their significant memory bandwidth and (on-chip) memory footprint requirements. This…

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Vision tokens in multimodal large language models often dominate huge computational overhead due to their excessive length compared to linguistic modality. Abundant recent methods aim to solve this problem with token pruning, which first…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Zichen Wen , Yifeng Gao , Shaobo Wang , Junyuan Zhang , Qintong Zhang , Weijia Li , Conghui He , Linfeng Zhang

Although vision transformers (ViT) have shown remarkable success in various vision tasks, their computationally expensive self-attention hinder their deployment on resource-constrained devices. Token reduction, which discards less important…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Haoyue Zhang , Jie Zhang , Song Guo

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have demonstrated outstanding performance in computer vision tasks, yet their high computational complexity prevents their deployment in computing resource-constrained environments. Various token pruning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Xuwei Xu , Changlin Li , Yudong Chen , Xiaojun Chang , Jiajun Liu , Sen Wang

Attention is sparse in vision transformers. We observe the final prediction in vision transformers is only based on a subset of most informative tokens, which is sufficient for accurate image recognition. Based on this observation, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Yongming Rao , Wenliang Zhao , Benlin Liu , Jiwen Lu , Jie Zhou , Cho-Jui Hsieh

Transformers have demonstrated remarkable success across vision, language, and video. Yet, increasing task complexity has led to larger models and more tokens, raising the quadratic cost of self-attention and the overhead of GPU memory…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Joonmyung Choi , Sanghyeok Lee , Byungoh Ko , Eunseo Kim , Jihyung Kil , Hyunwoo J. Kim

In this paper, we propose a progressive learning paradigm for transformer-based variable-rate image compression. Our approach covers a wide range of compression rates with the assistance of the Layer-adaptive Prompt Module (LPM). Inspired…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Shiyu Qin , Yimin Zhou , Jinpeng Wang , Bin Chen , Baoyi An , Tao Dai , Shu-Tao Xia

Vision Transformer (ViT) has achieved impressive results across various vision tasks, yet its high computational cost limits practical applications. Recent methods have aimed to reduce ViT's $O(n^2)$ complexity by pruning unimportant…

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