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Most large multimodal models (LMMs) are implemented by feeding visual tokens as a sequence into the first layer of a large language model (LLM). The resulting architecture is simple but significantly increases computation and memory costs,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Lingchen Meng , Jianwei Yang , Rui Tian , Xiyang Dai , Zuxuan Wu , Jianfeng Gao , Yu-Gang Jiang

Token-based video representation has emerged as a promising approach for enabling large language models (LLMs) to interpret video content. However, existing token reduction techniques, such as pruning and merging, often disrupt essential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Haichao Zhang , Yun Fu

This paper introduces Chain-of-Sight, a vision-language bridge module that accelerates the pre-training of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs). Our approach employs a sequence of visual resamplers that capture visual details at various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Ziyuan Huang , Kaixiang Ji , Biao Gong , Zhiwu Qing , Qinglong Zhang , Kecheng Zheng , Jian Wang , Jingdong Chen , Ming Yang

Video Large Language Models (Video LLMs) achieve strong performance on video understanding tasks but suffer from high inference costs due to the large number of visual tokens. We propose KiToke, a training-free, query-agnostic token…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Haifeng Huang , Yang Li

Long video understanding is a complex task that requires both spatial detail and temporal awareness. While Vision-Language Models (VLMs) obtain frame-level understanding capabilities through multi-frame input, they suffer from information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Ziyi Wang , Haoran Wu , Yiming Rong , Deyang Jiang , Yixin Zhang , Yunlong Zhao , Shuang Xu , Bo XU

We present an effective method for fusing visual-and-language representations for several question answering tasks including visual question answering and visual entailment. In contrast to prior works that concatenate unimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Maxwell Mbabilla Aladago , AJ Piergiovanni

Vision Language Models (VLMs) excel at identifying and describing objects but often fail at spatial reasoning. We study why VLMs, such as LLaVA, underutilize spatial cues despite having positional encodings and spatially rich vision encoder…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Jianing Qi , Jiawei Liu , Hao Tang , Zhigang Zhu

Recent Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated strong performance on vision-language understanding tasks, yet their inference efficiency is often hampered by the large number of visual tokens, particularly in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Jiafei Song , Fengwei Zhou , Jin Qu , Wenjin Jason Li , Tong Wu , Gengjian Xue , Zhikang Zhao , Daomin Wei , Yichao Lu , Bailin Na

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have made significant progress in bridging visual perception with high-level textual reasoning. However, they face a fundamental contradiction: while excelling at complex semantic understanding,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Yifei She , Huangxuan Wu

Recent advances in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have enabled impressive progress in vision-language understanding, yet their high computational cost limits deployment in resource-constrained scenarios such as robotic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Quoc-Huy Trinh

Accurate spatiotemporal traffic forecasting is a critical prerequisite for proactive resource management in dense urban mobile networks. While large language models have shown promise in time series analysis, they inherently struggle to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Ning Yang , Hengyu Zhong , Haijun Zhang , Randall Berry

Recent advances in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have enabled impressive progress in vision-language understanding, yet their high computational cost limits deployment in resource-constrained scenarios such as personal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Quoc-Huy Trinh , Mustapha Abdullahi , Bo Zhao , Debesh Jha

Large language models (LLMs) primarily rely on supervised fine-tuning (SFT) as a key method to adapt pre-trained models to domain-specific tasks such as mathematical reasoning. However, standard SFT uniformly penalizes all tokens,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Zhiwen Ruan , Yixia Li , He Zhu , Yun Chen , Peng Li , Yang Liu , Guanhua Chen

Video large language models (Video-LLMs) have demonstrated strong capabilities in video understanding tasks. However, their practical deployment is still hindered by the inefficiency introduced by processing massive amounts of visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Hesong Wang , Xin Jin , Lu Lu , Chenhaowen Li , Jian Chen , Qiang Liu , Huan Wang

The quadratic computational complexity to the number of tokens limits the practical applications of Vision Transformers (ViTs). Several works propose to prune redundant tokens to achieve efficient ViTs. However, these methods generally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Shuning Chang , Pichao Wang , Ming Lin , Fan Wang , David Junhao Zhang , Rong Jin , Mike Zheng Shou

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) enable sophisticated reasoning over images and videos, yet their inference is hindered by a systemic efficiency barrier known as visual token dominance. This overhead is driven by a multi-regime…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Jun Zhang , Yicheng Ji , Feiyang Ren , Yihang Li , Bowen Zeng , Zonghao Chen , Ke Chen , Lidan Shou , Gang Chen , Huan Li

Video semantic segmentation aims to generate accurate semantic maps for each video frame. To this end, many works dedicate to integrate diverse information from consecutive frames to enhance the features for prediction, where a feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-11 Jiafan Zhuang , Zilei Wang , Junjie Li

Current solutions for efficiently constructing large vision-language (VL) models follow a two-step paradigm: projecting the output of pre-trained vision encoders to the input space of pre-trained language models as visual prompts; and then…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Shibo Jie , Yehui Tang , Ning Ding , Zhi-Hong Deng , Kai Han , Yunhe Wang

Recent advances in product bundling have leveraged multimodal information through sophisticated encoders, but remain constrained by limited semantic understanding and a narrow scope of knowledge. Therefore, some attempts employ In-context…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Xiaohao Liu , Jie Wu , Zhulin Tao , Yunshan Ma , Yinwei Wei , Tat-seng Chua

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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