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Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) enhance their perceptual capabilities by integrating visual and textual information. However, processing the massive number of visual tokens incurs a significant computational cost. Existing analysis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Jiedong Zhuang , Lu Lu , Ming Dai , Rui Hu , Jian Chen , Qiang Liu , Haoji Hu

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have become essential backbones of modern multimodal intelligence, yet their outputs remain prone to hallucination-plausible text misaligned with visual inputs. Existing alignment approaches often rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Kejia Chen , Jiawen Zhang , Jiacong Hu , Kewei Gao , Jian Lou , Zunlei Feng , Mingli Song

Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) excels at learning generalizable image representations but often falls short in zero-shot inference on certain downstream datasets. Test-time adaptation (TTA) mitigates this issue by adjusting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Zixin Wang , Dong Gong , Sen Wang , Zi Huang , Yadan Luo

Online video super-resolution (VSR) is an important technique for many real-world video processing applications, which aims to restore the current high-resolution video frame based on temporally previous frames. Most of the existing online…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Qiang Zhu , Xiandong Meng , Yuxian Jiang , Fan Zhang , David Bull , Shuyuan Zhu , Bing Zeng , Ronggang Wang

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 adoption of Vision Transformers (ViTs) in resource-constrained applications necessitates improvements in inference throughput. To this end several token pruning and merging approaches have been proposed that improve efficiency by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Benjamin Bergner , Christoph Lippert , Aravindh Mahendran

Existing diffusion-based video super-resolution (VSR) methods are susceptible to introducing complex degradations and noticeable artifacts into high-resolution videos due to their inherent randomness. In this paper, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Shijun Shi , Jing Xu , Lijing Lu , Zhihang Li , Kai Hu

Existing Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) process a large number of visual tokens, leading to significant computational costs and inefficiency. Instruction-related visual token compression demonstrates strong task relevance, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Lei Lei , Jie Gu , Xiaokang Ma , Chu Tang , Jingmin Chen , Tong Xu

Token filtering to reduce irrelevant tokens prior to self-attention is a straightforward way to enable efficient vision Transformer. This is the first work to view token filtering from a feature selection perspective, where we weigh the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Hong Wang , Su Yang , Xiaoke Huang , Weishan Zhang

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

Vision Transformers (ViT) have shown their competitive advantages performance-wise compared to convolutional neural networks (CNNs) though they often come with high computational costs. To this end, previous methods explore different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Cong Wei , Brendan Duke , Ruowei Jiang , Parham Aarabi , Graham W. Taylor , Florian Shkurti

The vision tokens in multimodal large language models usually exhibit significant spatial and temporal redundancy and take up most of the input tokens, which harms their inference efficiency. To solve this problem, some recent works were…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Ting Liu , Liangtao Shi , Richang Hong , Yue Hu , Quanjun Yin , Linfeng Zhang

This study explores replacing Transformers in Visual Language Models (VLMs) with Mamba, a recent structured state space model (SSM) that demonstrates promising performance in sequence modeling. We test models up to 3B parameters under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Georgios Pantazopoulos , Malvina Nikandrou , Alessandro Suglia , Oliver Lemon , Arash Eshghi

Accurate Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) diagnosis is vital for early intervention. This study presents a hybrid deep learning framework combining Vision Transformers (ViT) and Vision Mamba to detect ASD using eye-tracking data. The model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Wafaa Kasri , Yassine Himeur , Abigail Copiaco , Wathiq Mansoor , Ammar Albanna , Valsamma Eapen

Transformers have become foundational for visual tasks such as object detection, semantic segmentation, and video understanding, but their quadratic complexity in attention mechanisms presents scalability challenges. To address these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Fady Ibrahim , Guangjun Liu , Guanghui Wang

Text-Video Retrieval (TVR) aims to align and associate relevant video content with corresponding natural language queries. Most existing TVR methods are based on large-scale pre-trained vision-language models (e.g., CLIP). However, due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Haoran Tang , Meng Cao , Jinfa Huang , Ruyang Liu , Peng Jin , Ge Li , Xiaodan Liang

Token compression techniques have recently emerged as powerful tools for accelerating Vision Transformer (ViT) inference in computer vision. Due to the quadratic computational complexity with respect to the token sequence length, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Phat Nguyen , Ngai-Man Cheung

Image restoration is a key task in low-level computer vision that aims to reconstruct high-quality images from degraded inputs. The emergence of Vision Mamba, which draws inspiration from the advanced state space model Mamba, marks a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Yu-Cheng Lin , Yu-Syuan Xu , Hao-Wei Chen , Hsien-Kai Kuo , Chun-Yi Lee

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have attracted widespread interest and have rich applications. However, the inherent attention mechanism in its Transformer structure requires quadratic complexity and results in expensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Yanyuan Qiao , Zheng Yu , Longteng Guo , Sihan Chen , Zijia Zhao , Mingzhen Sun , Qi Wu , Jing Liu

Transformer structure has achieved great success in multiple applied machine learning communities, such as natural language processing (NLP), computer vision (CV) and information retrieval (IR). Transformer architecture's core mechanism\,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Zhichao Xu