English
Related papers

Related papers: Dynamic Token Reduction during Generation for Visi…

200 papers

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have shown remarkable capabilities in a wide range of vision-language tasks. However, the large number of visual tokens introduces significant computational overhead. To address this issue, visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Yuxiang Duan , Ao Li , Yingqin Li , Luyu Li , Pengwei Wang

In multimodal large language models (MLLMs), the length of input visual tokens is often significantly greater than that of their textual counterparts, leading to a high inference cost. Many works aim to address this issue by removing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Qizhe Zhang , Mengzhen Liu , Lichen Li , Ming Lu , Yuan Zhang , Junwen Pan , Qi She , Shanghang Zhang

Recent advances have explored visual token pruning to accelerate the inference of large vision-language models (LVLMs). However, existing methods often struggle to balance token importance and diversity: importance-based methods tend to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Zhaohong Huang , Wenjing Liu , Yuxin Zhang , Fei Chao , Rongrong Ji

Recent works on accelerating Vision-Language Models achieve strong performance across a variety of vision-language tasks despite highly compressing visual information. In this work, we examine the popular acceleration approach of early…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Mark Endo , Xiaohan Wang , Serena Yeung-Levy

Large Language Models (LLMs) face computational inefficiencies and redundant processing when handling long context inputs, prompting a focus on compression techniques. While existing semantic vector-based compression methods achieve…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Shaoshen Chen , Yangning Li , Zishan Xu , Yinghui Li , Xin Su , Zifei Shan , Hai-tao Zheng

The rapid advancement of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) has led to remarkable performances across various domains. However, this progress is accompanied by a substantial surge in the resource consumption of these models. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Dingjie Song , Wenjun Wang , Shunian Chen , Xidong Wang , Michael Guan , Benyou Wang

With the rapid development of deep learning, large language models have shown strong capabilities in complex reasoning tasks such as mathematical equation solving. However, their substantial computational and storage costs hinder practical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Fengming Yu , Qingyu Meng , Haiwei Pan , Kejia Zhang

Vision Language Models (VLMs) struggle with long-form videos due to the quadratic complexity of attention mechanisms. We propose Language-Guided Temporal Token Pruning (LGTTP), which leverages temporal cues from queries to adaptively prune…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Yogesh Kumar

Recent Multimodal Large Language Models(MLLMs) often use a large number of visual tokens to compensate their visual shortcoming, leading to excessive computation and obvious visual redundancy. In this paper, we investigate what kind of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Yutao Jiang , Qiong Wu , Wenhao Lin , Wei Yu , Yiyi Zhou

The excessive use of visual tokens in existing Multimoal Large Language Models (MLLMs) often exhibits obvious redundancy and brings in prohibitively expensive computation. To gain insights into this problem, we first conduct extensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Qiong Wu , Wenhao Lin , Yiyi Zhou , Weihao Ye , Zhanpeng Zen , Xiaoshuai Sun , Rongrong Ji

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have advanced multimodal learning but face high computational costs due to the large number of visual tokens, motivating token pruning to improve inference efficiency. The key challenge lies in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Ao Li , Yuxiang Duan , Jinghui Zhang , Congbo Ma , Yutong Xie , Gustavo Carneiro , Mohammad Yaqub , Hu Wang

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown remarkable versatility in understanding diverse multimodal data and tasks. However, these capabilities come with an increased model scale. While post-training pruning reduces model size in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Jaewoo Lee , Keyang Xuan , Chanakya Ekbote , Sandeep Polisetty , Yi R. Fung , Paul Pu Liang

While 3D Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) demonstrate remarkable scene understanding capabilities, their practical deployment faces critical challenges due to computational inefficiency. The key bottleneck stems from processing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Wencan Huang , Daizong Liu , Wei Hu

By treating visual tokens from visual encoders as text tokens, Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have achieved remarkable progress across diverse visual understanding tasks, leveraging the robust architectures of Large Language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Zeliang Zhang , Phu Pham , Wentian Zhao , Kun Wan , Yu-Jhe Li , Jianing Zhou , Daniel Miranda , Ajinkya Kale , Chenliang Xu

Video generation, while capable of generating realistic videos, is computationally expensive and slow, prohibiting real-time applications. In this paper, we observe that video latents encoded via an autoencoder under the Latent Diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Dennis Menn , Chih-Hsien Chou

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

Text-to-image generation models, especially Multimodal Diffusion Transformers (MMDiT), have shown remarkable progress in generating high-quality images. However, these models often face significant computational bottlenecks, particularly in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Hanling Zhang , Rundong Su , Zhihang Yuan , Pengtao Chen , Mingzhu Shen Yibo Fan , Shengen Yan , Guohao Dai , Yu Wang

Recent advances in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have expanded reasoning capabilities into 3D domains, enabling fine-grained spatial understanding. However, the substantial size of 3D MLLMs and the high dimensionality of input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Yuhui Lin , Siyue Yu , Yuxing Yang , Guangliang Cheng , Jimin Xiao

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) encounter significant computational and memory bottlenecks from the massive number of visual tokens generated by high-resolution images or multi-image inputs. Previous token compression techniques…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Jiaying Zhu , Yurui Zhu , Xin Lu , Wenrui Yan , Dong Li , Kunlin Liu , Xueyang Fu , Zheng-Jun Zha

Diffusion language models (DLMs) generate text through iterative denoising, but inference requires full-sequence attention at every iteration, resulting in substantial redundant computation on masked tokens. Block-wise diffusion can reduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Fengrui Zuo , Zhiwei Ke , Yiming Liu , Wenqi Lou , Chao Wang , Xuehai Zhou