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Vision Transformers (ViT) have emerged as the de-facto choice for numerous industry grade vision solutions. But their inference cost can be prohibitive for many settings, as they compute self-attention in each layer which suffers from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Rajat Koner , Gagan Jain , Prateek Jain , Volker Tresp , Sujoy Paul

Token pruning is essential for enhancing the computational efficiency of vision-language models (VLMs), particularly for video-based tasks where temporal redundancy is prevalent. Prior approaches typically prune tokens either (1) within the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Jianrui Zhang , Yue Yang , Rohun Tripathi , Winson Han , Ranjay Krishna , Christopher Clark , Yong Jae Lee , Sangho Lee

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) encode images and videos into abundant tokens, which contain substantial redundancy and computation cost. While visual token pruning mitigates the issue, most existing methods lack insight into the intrinsic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Jizhihui Liu , Feiyi Du , Guangdao Zhu , Niu Lian , Jun Li , Bin Chen , Weili Guan , Yaowei Wang

Vision Transformer (ViT) has prevailed in computer vision tasks due to its strong long-range dependency modelling ability. \textcolor{blue}{However, its large model size and weak local feature modeling ability hinder its application in real…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Yi Zhang , Lingxiao Wei , Bowei Zhang , Ziwei Liu , Kai Yi , Shu Hu

Recent advancements in Vision-Language Models (VLMs) enable large language models (LLMs) to process high-resolution images, significantly improving real-world multimodal understanding. However, this capability introduces a large number of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yuna Lee , Kyoungho Min , Yulhwa Kim

Transformers yield state-of-the-art results across many tasks. However, their heuristically designed architecture impose huge computational costs during inference. This work aims on challenging the common design philosophy of the Vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Huanrui Yang , Hongxu Yin , Maying Shen , Pavlo Molchanov , Hai Li , Jan Kautz

Slow inference speed is one of the most crucial concerns for deploying multi-view 3D detectors to tasks with high real-time requirements like autonomous driving. Although many sparse query-based methods have already attempted to improve the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Dingyuan Zhang , Dingkang Liang , Zichang Tan , Xiaoqing Ye , Cheng Zhang , Jingdong Wang , Xiang Bai

Vision transformers (ViTs) have emerged as a prevalent architecture for vision tasks owing to their impressive performance. However, when it comes to handling long token sequences, especially in dense prediction tasks that require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Jin Li , Yaoming Wang , Xiaopeng Zhang , Bowen Shi , Dongsheng Jiang , Chenglin Li , Wenrui Dai , Hongkai Xiong , Qi Tian

Vision representation learning, especially self-supervised learning, is pivotal for various vision applications. Ensemble learning has also succeeded in enhancing the performance and robustness of the vision models. However, traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Zhong-Yu Li , Yu-Song Hu , Bo-Wen Yin , Ming-Ming Cheng

Vision transformers have been widely explored in various vision tasks. Due to heavy computational cost, much interest has aroused for compressing vision transformer dynamically in the aspect of tokens. Current methods mainly pay attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Fanhu Zeng , Deli Yu , Zhenglun Kong , Hao Tang

While models derived from Vision Transformers (ViTs) have been phonemically surging, pre-trained models cannot seamlessly adapt to arbitrary resolution images without altering the architecture and configuration, such as sampling the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Song Zhang , Qingzhong Wang , Jiang Bian , Haoyi Xiong

Large Vision Language Models show impressive performance across image and video understanding tasks, yet their computational cost grows rapidly with the number of visual tokens. Existing token pruning methods mitigate this issue through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Dong-Jae Lee , Sunghyun Baek , Junmo Kim

Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) have proven effective on various tasks. They typically encode visual inputs into Original Model sequences of tokens, which are then concatenated with textual tokens and jointly processed by the language model.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Hao Zhang , Mengsi Lyu , Bo Huang , Yulong Ao , Yonghua Lin

Deployment of Transformer models on edge devices is becoming increasingly challenging due to the exponentially growing inference cost that scales quadratically with the number of tokens in the input sequence. Token pruning is an emerging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Hongjie Wang , Bhishma Dedhia , Niraj K. Jha

The large pre-trained vision transformers (ViTs) have demonstrated remarkable performance on various visual tasks, but suffer from expensive computational and memory cost problems when deployed on resource-constrained devices. Among the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Yanjing Li , Sheng Xu , Baochang Zhang , Xianbin Cao , Peng Gao , Guodong Guo

Recent token reduction methods for Vision Transformers (ViTs) incorporate token merging, which measures the similarities between token embeddings and combines the most similar pairs. However, their merging policies are directly dependent on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Dong Hoon Lee , Seunghoon Hong

Recent Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have advanced multi-modal understanding by incorporating finer-grained visual perception and encoding. However, such methods incur significant computational costs due to longer visual token…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Ce Zhang , Kaixin Ma , Tianqing Fang , Wenhao Yu , Hongming Zhang , Zhisong Zhang , Haitao Mi , Dong Yu

The Visual Geometry Grounded Transformer (VGGT) marks a significant leap forward in 3D scene reconstruction, as it is the first model that directly infers all key 3D attributes (camera poses, depths, and dense geometry) jointly in one pass.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Weitian Wang , Lukas Meiner , Rai Shubham , Cecilia De La Parra , Akash Kumar

Vision transformers (ViTs) have been trending in image classification tasks due to their promising performance when compared to convolutional neural networks (CNNs). As a result, many researchers have tried to incorporate ViTs in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Swalpa Kumar Roy , Ankur Deria , Danfeng Hong , Behnood Rasti , Antonio Plaza , Jocelyn Chanussot

The vision transformer splits each image into a sequence of tokens with fixed length and processes the tokens in the same way as words in natural language processing. More tokens normally lead to better performance but considerably…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Yichen Zhu , Yuqin Zhu , Jie Du , Yi Wang , Zhicai Ou , Feifei Feng , Jian Tang