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Pruning is a typical acceleration technique for compute-bound models by removing computation on unimportant values. Recently, it has been applied to accelerate Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model inference. However, existing acceleration…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Hanzhen Wang , Jiaming Xu , Yushun Xiang , Jiayi Pan , Yongkang Zhou , Yong-Lu Li , Guohao Dai

Vision-Language Models suffer severe KV cache pressure at inference, as a single image often encodes into thousands of tokens. Most existing methods exploit token sparsity through token pruning, but permanently discarding visual content…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Beomseok Kang , Dongwon Jo , Jiwon Song , Donghwee Son , Jae-Joon Kim

Despite exceptional capabilities, Large Language Models (LLMs) still face deployment challenges due to their enormous size. Post-training structured pruning is a promising solution that prunes LLMs without the need for retraining, reducing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Weizhong Huang , Yuxin Zhang , Xiawu Zheng , Fei Chao , Rongrong Ji

Fine-tuning Large Language Models (LLMs) with first-order methods like back-propagation is computationally intensive. Zeroth-Order (ZO) optimisation uses function evaluations instead of gradients, reducing memory usage, but suffers from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Alessio Galatolo , Zhenbang Dai , Katie Winkle , Meriem Beloucif

Recent advances in vision-language models have demonstrated remarkable performance across diverse multi-modal tasks, including document question answering that leverages structured visual cues from text, tables, and figures. However, unlike…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Joonmyung Choi , Sanghyeok Lee , Jongha Kim , Sehyung Kim , Dohwan Ko , Jihyung Kil , Hyunwoo J. Kim

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

Pre-trained language models achieve superior performance but are computationally expensive. Techniques such as pruning and knowledge distillation have been developed to reduce their sizes and latencies. In this work, we propose a structured…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Ziqing Yang , Yiming Cui , Xin Yao , Shijin Wang

Large vision-language models (LVLMs) excel at multimodal understanding but suffer from high computational costs due to redundant vision tokens. Existing pruning methods typically rely on single-layer attention scores to rank and prune…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Jintao Tong , Wenwei Jin , Pengda Qin , Anqi Li , Yixiong Zou , Yuhong Li , Yuhua Li , Ruixuan Li

Vision transformers have achieved leading performance on various visual tasks yet still suffer from high computational complexity. The situation deteriorates in dense prediction tasks like semantic segmentation, as high-resolution inputs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Quan Tang , Bowen Zhang , Jiajun Liu , Fagui Liu , Yifan Liu

Fine-tuning Large Language Models (LLMs) has proven effective for a variety of downstream tasks. However, as LLMs grow in size, the memory demands for backpropagation become increasingly prohibitive. Zeroth-order (ZO) optimization methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Ziming Yu , Pan Zhou , Sike Wang , Jia Li , Mi Tian , Hua Huang

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) demonstrate strong performance across visual tasks, but their efficiency is hindered by significant computational and memory demands from processing long contexts in multimodal inputs. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Yingen Liu , Fan Wu , Ruihui Li , Zhuo Tang , Kenli Li

Vision transformer has emerged as a new paradigm in computer vision, showing excellent performance while accompanied by expensive computational cost. Image token pruning is one of the main approaches for ViT compression, due to the facts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Xiangcheng Liu , Tianyi Wu , Guodong Guo

Efficient inference in Large Vision-Language Models is constrained by the high cost of processing thousands of visual tokens, yet it remains unclear which tokens and computations can be safely removed. While attention scores are commonly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Samyak Jha , Junho Kim

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) suffer from substantial computational overhead due to the high redundancy in visual token sequences. Existing approaches typically address this issue using single-layer Vision Transformer (ViT)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Yunkai Dang , Yizhu Jiang , Yifan Jiang , Qi Fan , Yinghuan Shi , Wenbin Li , Yang Gao

While Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) demonstrate exceptional multi-modal capabilities, the quadratic computational cost of processing high-resolution visual tokens remains a critical bottleneck. Though recent token reduction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Surendra Pathak , Bo Han

Video large language models (video LLMs) excel at video comprehension but face significant computational inefficiency due to redundant video tokens. Existing token pruning methods offer solutions. However, approaches operating within the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Kele Shao , Keda Tao , Can Qin , Haoxuan You , Yang Sui , Huan Wang

Despite recent competitive performance across a range of vision tasks, vision Transformers still have an issue of heavy computational costs. Recently, vision prompt learning has provided an economic solution to this problem without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Haixin Wang , Jianlong Chang , Xiao Luo , Jinan Sun , Zhouchen Lin , Qi Tian

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have emerged as powerful models in the field of computer vision, delivering superior performance across various vision tasks. However, the high computational complexity poses a significant barrier to their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Xinjian Wu , Fanhu Zeng , Xiudong Wang , Xinghao Chen

The high computational demands of Vision Transformers (ViTs) in processing a large number of tokens often constrain their practical application in analyzing medical images. This research proposes a Prompt-driven Adaptive Token ({\it PrATo})…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Pallabi Dutta , Anubhab Maity , Sushmita Mitra

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Yuhui Lin , Siyue Yu , Yuxing Yang , Guangliang Cheng , Jimin Xiao