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We introduce TimeViper, a hybrid vision-language model designed to tackle challenges of long video understanding. Processing long videos demands both an efficient model architecture and an effective mechanism for handling extended temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Boshen Xu , Zihan Xiao , Jiaze Li , Jianzhong Ju , Zhenbo Luo , Jian Luan , Qin Jin

Vision transformers (ViTs) have become the popular structures and outperformed convolutional neural networks (CNNs) on various vision tasks. However, such powerful transformers bring a huge computation burden, because of the exhausting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Zhuofan Zong , Kunchang Li , Guanglu Song , Yali Wang , Yu Qiao , Biao Leng , Yu Liu

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) excel in visual understanding and reasoning, but the excessive visual tokens lead to high inference costs. Although recent token reduction methods mitigate this issue, they mainly target single-turn…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Yi Wang , Haofei Zhang , Qihan Huang , Anda Cao , Gongfan Fang , Wei Wang , Xuan Jin , Jie Song , Mingli Song , Xinchao Wang

Vision Mamba (ViM) models offer a compelling efficiency advantage over Transformers by leveraging the linear complexity of State Space Models (SSMs), yet efficiently deploying them on FPGAs remains challenging. Linear layers struggle with…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Shengzhe Lyu , Yuhan She , Patrick S. Y. Hung , Ray C. C. Cheung , Weitao Xu

Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have achieved remarkable success by integrating visual and textual modalities. However, they incur significant computational overhead due to the large number of vision tokens processed, limiting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Yizheng Sun , Yanze Xin , Hao Li , Jingyuan Sun , Chenghua Lin , Riza Batista-Navarro

Vision Transformer (ViT) has emerged as a prominent backbone for computer vision. For more efficient ViTs, recent works lessen the quadratic cost of the self-attention layer by pruning or fusing the redundant tokens. However, these works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Sanghyeok Lee , Joonmyung Choi , Hyunwoo J. Kim

This work tackles the problem of Online detection of Take and Release (OTR) of an object in untrimmed egocentric videos. This task is challenging due to severe label imbalance, with temporally sparse positive annotations, and the need for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Alessandro Sebastiano Catinello , Giovanni Maria Farinella , Antonino Furnari

Vision Mambas (ViMs) achieve remarkable success with sub-quadratic complexity, but their efficiency remains constrained by quadratic token scaling with image resolution. While existing methods address token redundancy, they overlook ViMs'…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Yan Wen , Peng Ye , Lin Zhang , Baopu Li , Jiakang Yuan , Yaoxin Yang , Tao Chen

Recently, a novel visual state space (VSS) model, referred to as Mamba, has demonstrated significant progress in modeling long sequences with linear complexity, comparable to Transformer models, thereby enhancing its adaptability for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Tao Wang , Tiecheng Bai , Chao Xu , Bin Liu , Erlei Zhang , Jiyun Huang , Hongming Zhang

Robust feature representations are essential for learning-based Multi-View Stereo (MVS), which relies on accurate feature matching. Recent MVS methods leverage Transformers to capture long-range dependencies based on local features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Jianfei Jiang , Qiankun Liu , Hongyuan Liu , Haochen Yu , Liyong Wang , Jiansheng Chen , Huimin Ma

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have achieved remarkable progress in multimodal reasoning and generation, yet their high computational demands remain a major challenge. Diffusion Vision-Language Models (DVLMs) are particularly attractive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Jingqi Xu , Jingxi Lu , Chenghao Li , Sreetama Sarkar , Souvik Kundu , Peter A. Beerel

The computational demands of Vision Transformers (ViTs) and Vision-Language Models (VLMs) remain a significant challenge due to the quadratic complexity of self-attention. While token pruning offers a promising solution, existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Ahmadreza Jeddi , Negin Baghbanzadeh , Elham Dolatabadi , Babak Taati

The realm of Mamba for vision has been advanced in recent years to strike for the alternatives of Vision Transformers (ViTs) that suffer from the quadratic complexity. While the recurrent scanning mechanism of Mamba offers computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Masakazu Yoshimura , Teruaki Hayashi , Yuki Hoshino , Wei-Yao Wang , Takeshi Ohashi

Vision transformers are known to be more computationally and data-intensive than CNN models. These transformer models such as ViT, require all the input image tokens to learn the relationship among them. However, many of these tokens are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Foozhan Ataiefard , Walid Ahmed , Habib Hajimolahoseini , Saina Asani , Farnoosh Javadi , Mohammad Hassanpour , Omar Mohamed Awad , Austin Wen , Kangling Liu , Yang Liu

Transformers have proven effective in language modeling but are limited by high computational and memory demands that grow quadratically with input sequence length. State space models (SSMs) offer a promising alternative by reducing…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Dongho Yoon , Gungyu Lee , Jaewon Chang , Yunjae Lee , Dongjae Lee , Minsoo Rhu

We attempt to reduce the computational costs in vision transformers (ViTs), which increase quadratically in the token number. We present a novel training paradigm that trains only one ViT model at a time, but is capable of providing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Mingbao Lin , Mengzhao Chen , Yuxin Zhang , Chunhua Shen , Rongrong Ji , Liujuan Cao

Transformer-based trajectory optimization methods have demonstrated exceptional performance in offline Reinforcement Learning (offline RL). Yet, it poses challenges due to substantial parameter size and limited scalability, which is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Yang Dai , Oubo Ma , Longfei Zhang , Xingxing Liang , Shengchao Hu , Mengzhu Wang , Shouling Ji , Jincai Huang , Li Shen

Mamba has garnered widespread attention due to its flexible design and efficient hardware performance to process 1D sequences based on the state space model (SSM). Recent studies have attempted to apply Mamba to the visual domain by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Chengkun Wang , Wenzhao Zheng , Yuanhui Huang , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

Recent Mamba-based architectures for video understanding demonstrate promising computational efficiency and competitive performance, yet struggle with overfitting issues that hinder their scalability. To overcome this challenge, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Yunze Liu , Peiran Wu , Cheng Liang , Junxiao Shen , Limin Wang , Li Yi

Recently, reducing redundant visual tokens in vision-language models (VLMs) to accelerate VLM inference has emerged as a hot topic. However, most existing methods rely on heuristics constructed based on inter-visual-token similarity or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Haokui Zhang , Congyang Ou , Dawei Yan , Peng Wang , Qingsen Yan , Yu Zhang , Ying Li , Rong Xiao