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Vision-language models (VLMs) face significant computational inefficiencies caused by excessive generation of visual tokens. While prior work shows that a large fraction of visual tokens are redundant, existing compression methods struggle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Zhengyao Fang , Pengyuan Lyu , Chengquan Zhang , Guangming Lu , Jun Yu , Wenjie Pei

For multimodal large language models (MLLMs), visual information is relatively sparse compared with text. As a result, research on visual pruning emerges for efficient inference. Current approaches typically measure token importance based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Jiameng Li , Aleksei Tiulpin , Matthew B. Blaschko

Large multimodal models (LMMs) often suffer from severe inference inefficiency due to the large number of visual tokens introduced by image encoders. While recent token compression methods, such as pruning and merging, have shown promise in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Tianfan Peng , Yuntao Du , Pengzhou Ji , Shijie Dong , Kailin Jiang , Mingchuan Ma , Yijun Tian , Jinhe Bi , Qian Li , Wei Du , Feng Xiao , Lizhen Cui

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown strong performance in vision-language tasks, but their inference efficiency is severely limited by the exponential growth of visual tokens in complex scenarios such as high-resolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Yuhao Chen , Bin Shan , Xin Ye , Cheng Chen

Enabling Large Language Models (LLMs) to comprehend the 3D physical world remains a significant challenge. Due to the lack of large-scale 3D-text pair datasets, the success of LLMs has yet to be replicated in 3D understanding. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Yuan Tang , Xu Han , Xianzhi Li , Qiao Yu , Jinfeng Xu , Yixue Hao , Long Hu , Min Chen

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have achieved significant breakthroughs by leveraging Large Vision Language Models (VLMs) to jointly interpret instructions and visual inputs. However, the substantial increase in visual tokens,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Haosheng Li , Weixin Mao , Zihan Lan , Hongwei Xiong , Hongan Wang , Chenyang Si , Ziwei Liu , Xiaoming Deng , Hua Chen

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) deliver impressive vision-language reasoning but suffer steep inference latency because self-attention scales quadratically with sequence length and thousands of visual tokens contributed by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Wengyi Zhan , Mingbao Lin , Zhihang Lin , Rongrong Ji

As large language models (LLMs) become increasingly powerful, the sequential nature of autoregressive generation creates a fundamental throughput bottleneck that limits the practical deployment. While Multi-Token Prediction (MTP) has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Yuxuan Cai , Xiaozhuan Liang , Xinghua Wang , Jin Ma , Haijin Liang , Jinwen Luo , Xinyu Zuo , Lisheng Duan , Yuyang Yin , Xi Chen

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

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

Visual Autoregressive (VAR) modeling has gained popularity for its shift towards next-scale prediction. However, existing VAR paradigms process the entire token map at each scale step, leading to the complexity and runtime scaling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Hang Guo , Yawei Li , Taolin Zhang , Jiangshan Wang , Tao Dai , Shu-Tao Xia , Luca Benini

Current Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM) architectures face a critical tradeoff between performance and efficiency: decoder-only architectures achieve higher performance but lower efficiency, while cross-attention-based architectures…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Hongliang Li , Jiaxin Zhang , Wenhui Liao , Dezhi Peng , Kai Ding , Lianwen Jin

While Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have achieved remarkable success in 2D visual understanding, their ability to reason about 3D space remains limited. To address this gap, we introduce geometrically referenced 3D scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Jiangye Yuan , Gowri Kumar , Baoyuan Wang

Although Multimodal Large Language Models have achieved remarkable progress, they still struggle with complex 3D spatial reasoning due to the reliance on 2D visual priors. Existing approaches typically mitigate this limitation either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Jiahua Chen , Qihong Tang , Weinong Wang , Qi Fan

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) suffer from severe training inefficiency issue, which is associated with their massive model sizes and visual token numbers. Existing efforts in efficient training focus on reducing model sizes or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Dingkun Zhang , Shuhan Qi , Yulin Wu , Xinyu Xiao , Xuan Wang , Long Chen

Omnimodal Large Language Models (Omni-LLMs) incur substantial computational overhead due to the large number of multimodal input tokens they process, making token reduction essential for real-world deployment. Existing Omni-LLM pruning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Chaeyoung Jung , Kyeongha Rho , Joon Son Chung

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

Deep neural networks have revolutionized 3D point cloud processing, yet efficiently handling large and irregular point clouds remains challenging. To tackle this problem, we introduce FastPoint, a novel software-based acceleration technique…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Donghyun Lee , Dawoon Jeong , Jae W. Lee , Hongil Yoon

Vision-Language Action (VLA) models have shown remarkable progress in robotic manipulation by leveraging the powerful perception abilities of Vision-Language Models (VLMs) to understand environments and directly output actions. However, by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Chenyang Li , Jieyuan Liu , Bin Li , Bo Gao , Yilin Yuan , Yangfan He , Yuchen Li , Jingqun Tang

3D object segmentation with Large Language Models (LLMs) has become a prevailing paradigm due to its broad semantics, task flexibility, and strong generalization. However, this paradigm is hindered by representation misalignment: LLMs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Zhuoxu Huang , Mingqi Gao , Jungong Han