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Streaming vision-language models (VLMs) continuously generate responses given an instruction prompt and an online stream of input frames. This is a core mechanism for real-time visual assistants. Existing VLM frameworks predominantly assess…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Pavan Kumar Anasosalu Vasu , Cem Koc , Fartash Faghri , Chun-Liang Li , Bo Feng , Zhengfeng Lai , Meng Cao , Oncel Tuzel , Hadi Pouransari

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

High-resolution Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are widely used in multimodal tasks to enhance accuracy by preserving detailed image information. However, these models often generate an excessive number of visual tokens due to the need to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Kazi Hasan Ibn Arif , JinYi Yoon , Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos , Hans Vandierendonck , Deepu John , Bo Ji

The rapid success of Vision Large Language Models (VLLMs) often depends on the high-resolution images with abundant visual tokens, which hinders training and deployment efficiency. Current training-free visual token compression methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Jianjian Li , Junquan Fan , Feng Tang , Gang Huang , Shitao Zhu , Songlin Liu , Nian Xie , Wulong Liu , Yong Liao

Vision-language models (VLMs) predominantly rely on autoregressive decoding, which generates tokens one at a time and fundamentally limits inference throughput. This limitation is especially acute in physical AI scenarios such as robotics…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Chengyue Wu , Shiyi Lan , Yonggan Fu , Sensen Gao , Jin Wang , Jincheng Yu , Jose M. Alvarez , Pavlo Molchanov , Ping Luo , Song Han , Ligeng Zhu , Enze Xie

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have emerged as a promising paradigm in autonomous driving (AD), providing a unified framework for perception and decision-making. However, their real-world deployment is hindered by significant computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Minhao Xiong , Zichen Wen , Zhuangcheng Gu , Xuyang Liu , Rui Zhang , Hengrui Kang , Jiabing Yang , Junyuan Zhang , Weijia Li , Conghui He , Yafei Wang , Linfeng Zhang

The computational expense of redundant vision tokens in Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) has led many existing methods to compress them via a vision projector. However, this compression may lose visual information that is crucial for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Ze Feng , Jiang-jiang Liu , Sen Yang , Lingyu Xiao , Zhibin Quan , Zhenhua Feng , Wankou Yang , Jingdong Wang

Recent advancements in multimodal fusion have witnessed the remarkable success of vision-language (VL) models, which excel in various multimodal applications such as image captioning and visual question answering. However, building VL…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Zhiwei Hao , Jianyuan Guo , Li Shen , Yong Luo , Han Hu , Yonggang Wen

Recent Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated remarkable multimodal understanding capabilities, yet the redundant visual tokens incur prohibitive computational overhead and degrade inference efficiency. Prior studies typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Qiankun Ma , Ziyao Zhang , Haofei Wang , Jie Chen , Zhen Song , Hairong Zheng

Vision-language models (VLMs) have shown remarkable success across various multi-modal tasks, yet large VLMs encounter significant efficiency challenges due to processing numerous visual tokens. A promising approach to accelerating large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Wangbo Zhao , Yizeng Han , Jiasheng Tang , Zhikai Li , Yibing Song , Kai Wang , Zhangyang Wang , Yang You

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) suffer from high computational costs due to excessive visual tokens, particularly in high-resolution and video-based scenarios. Existing token reduction methods typically focus on isolated pipeline…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Hanxun Yu , Wentong Li , Xuan Qu , Song Wang , Junbo Chen , Jianke Zhu

Recent Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have advanced multi-modal understanding by incorporating finer-grained visual perception and encoding. However, such methods incur significant computational costs due to longer visual token…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Ce Zhang , Kaixin Ma , Tianqing Fang , Wenhao Yu , Hongming Zhang , Zhisong Zhang , Haitao Mi , Dong Yu

Vision-language models (VLMs) have transformed multimodal reasoning, but feeding hundreds of visual patch tokens into LLMs incurs quadratic computational costs, straining memory and context windows. Traditional approaches face a trade-off:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Jusheng Zhang , Xiaoyang Guo , Kaitong Cai , Qinhan Lv , Yijia Fan , Wenhao Chai , Jian Wang , Keze Wang

Cross-attention is commonly adopted in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) for integrating visual information into the language backbone. However, in applications with large visual inputs, such as video understanding, processing a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Tzu-Tao Chang , Shivaram Venkataraman

Vision-language-action (VLA) models have demonstrated exceptional performance in natural language-driven perception and control. However, the high computational cost of VLA models poses significant efficiency challenges, particularly for…

Vision-Language Large Models (VLMs) have become primary backbone of AI, due to the impressive performance. However, their expensive computation costs, i.e., throughput and delay, impede potentials in real-world scenarios. To achieve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Chen Ju , Haicheng Wang , Zeqian Li , Xu Chen , Zhonghua Zhai , Weilin Huang , Shuai Xiao

The success of VLMs often relies on the dynamic high-resolution schema that adaptively augments the input images to multiple crops, so that the details of the images can be retained. However, such approaches result in a large number of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Jiayi Han , Liang Du , Yiwen Wu , Xiangguo Zhou , Hongwei Du , Weibo Zheng

Vision language models (VLMs) have achieved impressive performance across a variety of computer vision tasks. However, the multimodal reasoning capability has not been fully explored in existing models. In this paper, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Xintong Zhang , Zhi Gao , Bofei Zhang , Pengxiang Li , Xiaowen Zhang , Yang Liu , Tao Yuan , Yuwei Wu , Yunde Jia , Song-Chun Zhu , Qing Li

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown impressive potential in generating Verilog codes, but ensuring functional correctness remains a challenge. Existing approaches often rely on self-consistency or simulation feedback to select the best…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Zhuorui Zhao , Bing Li , Grace Li Zhang , Ulf Schlichtmann

Large Vision Language Models (LVLMs) have been widely adopted to guide vision foundation models in performing reasoning segmentation tasks, achieving impressive performance. However, the substantial computational overhead associated with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Hanning Chen , Yang Ni , Wenjun Huang , Hyunwoo Oh , Yezi Liu , Tamoghno Das , Mohsen Imani