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Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) have emerged as powerful models capable of understanding various data modalities, including text, images, and videos. LMMs encode both text and visual data into tokens that are then combined and processed by…

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The success of VLMs often relies on the dynamic high-resolution schema that adaptively augments the input images to multiple crops, so that the details of the images can be retained. However, such approaches result in a large number of…

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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…

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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

In large vision-language models, visual tokens typically constitute the majority of input tokens, leading to substantial computational overhead. To address this, recent studies have explored pruning redundant or less informative visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Sangin Lee , Yukyung Choi

Visual tokens dominate inference cost in vision-language models (VLMs), yet many carry redundant information. Existing pruning methods alleviate this but typically rely on attention magnitude or similarity scores. We reformulate visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Landi He , Xiaoyu Yang , Lijian Xu

In Vision-Language Models (VLMs), processing a massive number of visual tokens incurs prohibitive computational overhead. While recent training-aware pruning methods attempt to selectively discard redundant tokens, they largely rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Mingzhe Huang , Weijun Wang , Xin Ding , Liang Mi , Hao Wen , Yuanchun Li , Lichen Pang , Shansong Yang , Yunxin Liu , Ting Cao

Large language models (LLMs) have enabled the creation of multi-modal LLMs that exhibit strong comprehension of visual data such as images and videos. However, these models usually rely on extensive visual tokens from visual encoders,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Yiwu Zhong , Zhuoming Liu , Yin Li , Liwei Wang

Large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) enable strong multimodal reasoning but incur heavy inference costs from redundant visual tokens. Token pruning alleviates this issue, yet existing approaches face limitations. Attention-based methods rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Youngeun Kim , Youjia Zhang , Huiling Liu , Aecheon Jung , Sunwoo Lee , Sungeun Hong

Multi-modal Large Langue Models (MLLMs) often process thousands of visual tokens, which consume a significant portion of the context window and impose a substantial computational burden. Prior work has empirically explored visual token…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Dingchen Yang , Bowen Cao , Anran Zhang , Weibo Gu , Winston Hu , Guang Chen

Video large language models (VideoLLMs) show strong capability in video understanding, yet long-context inference is still dominated by massive redundant visual tokens in the prefill stage. We revisit token compression for VideoLLMs under a…

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Large Vision Language Models (LVLMs) have been widely adopted to guide vision foundation models in performing reasoning segmentation tasks, achieving impressive performance. However, the substantial computational overhead associated with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Hanning Chen , Yang Ni , Wenjun Huang , Hyunwoo Oh , Yezi Liu , Tamoghno Das , Mohsen Imani

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have advanced rapidly within the unified Transformer architecture, yet their deployment on resource-constrained devices remains challenging due to high computational complexity. While pruning has emerged as an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Zimeng Wu , Yunhong Wang , Donghao Wang , Jiaxin Chen

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across a range of multimodal tasks. However, their inference efficiency is constrained by the large number of visual tokens processed during decoding. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Yu Meng , Kaiyuan Li , Chenran Huang , Chen Gao , Xinlei Chen , Yong Li , Xiaoping Zhang

Real-time inference of vision-language-action (VLA) models is essential for robotic control. While visual token pruning has shown strong potential for accelerating inference, most existing methods mainly base pruning decisions on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Shilin Ma , Chubin Zhang , Changyuan Wang , Yuji Wang , Yue Wu , Zixuan Wang , Jingqi Tian , Zheng Zhu , Yansong Tang

Instructed Visual Segmentation (IVS) tasks require segmenting objects in images or videos based on natural language instructions. While recent multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have achieved strong performance on IVS, their inference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Wenhui Zhu , Xiwen Chen , Zhipeng Wang , Shao Tang , Sayan Ghosh , Xuanzhao Dong , Rajat Koner , Yalin Wang

Recent Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated remarkable multimodal understanding capabilities, yet the redundant visual tokens incur prohibitive computational overhead and degrade inference efficiency. Prior studies typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Qiankun Ma , Ziyao Zhang , Haofei Wang , Jie Chen , Zhen Song , Hairong Zheng

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have emerged as the backbone of many segmentation models, consistently achieving state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance. However, their success comes at a significant computational cost. Image token pruning is one of…

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Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown strong reasoning ability, but their high computational and memory costs hinder deployment in resource-constrained settings. While Post-Training Quantization (PTQ) and vision token pruning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Xinhao Wang , Zhonyu Xia , Zhiwei Lin , Zhe Li , Yongtao Wang

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have shown strong capabilities on diverse multimodal tasks. However, the large number of visual tokens output by the vision encoder severely hinders inference efficiency, and prior studies have shown that many…

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