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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

Large Language Models (LLMs) have strong instruction-following capability to interpret and execute tasks as directed by human commands. Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have inferior instruction-following ability compared to LLMs.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Te Yang , Jian Jia , Xiangyu Zhu , Weisong Zhao , Bo Wang , Yanhua Cheng , Yan Li , Shengyuan Liu , Quan Chen , Peng Jiang , Kun Gai , Zhen Lei

This paper introduces a novel approach to efficiently feeding knowledge to language models (LLMs) during prediction by integrating retrieval and generation processes within a unified framework. While the Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-11 S Santosh Kumar , Rishi Gottimukkala , Supriya Devidutta , Karthikeyan S

Diffusion-based large multimodal models, such as LLaDA-V, have demonstrated impressive capabilities in vision-language understanding and generation. However, their bidirectional attention mechanism and diffusion-style iterative denoising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Zhewen Wan , Tianchen Song , Chen Lin , Zhiyong Zhao , Xianpeng Lang

The efficiency of large vision-language models (LVLMs) is constrained by the computational bottleneck of the attention mechanism during the prefill phase and the memory bottleneck of fetching the key-value (KV) cache in the decoding phase,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Yefei He , Feng Chen , Jing Liu , Wenqi Shao , Hong Zhou , Kaipeng Zhang , Bohan Zhuang

Attention-based vision models, such as Vision Transformer (ViT) and its variants, have shown promising performance in various computer vision tasks. However, these emerging architectures suffer from large model sizes and high computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Jinqi Xiao , Miao Yin , Yu Gong , Xiao Zang , Jian Ren , Bo Yuan

Visual token pruning is a widely used strategy for efficient inference in multimodal large language models (MLLMs), but existing work mainly evaluates it with task accuracy. In this paper, we study how visual token pruning affects model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Kaizhen Tan

Vision Transformers (ViTs) excel in semantic segmentation but demand significant computation, posing challenges for deployment on resource-constrained devices. Existing token pruning methods often overlook fundamental visual data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Yuanbing Ouyang , Yizhuo Liang , Qingpeng Li , Xinfei Guo , Yiming Luo , Di Wu , Hao Wang , Yushan Pan

Visual token reduction lowers inference costs caused by extensive image features in large vision-language models (LVLMs). Unlike relevant studies that prune tokens in self-attention-only LVLMs, our work uniquely addresses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Jewon Lee , Ki-Ung Song , Seungmin Yang , Donguk Lim , Jaeyeon Kim , Wooksu Shin , Bo-Kyeong Kim , Yong Jae Lee , Tae-Ho Kim

The Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have activated the capabilitiesof Large Language Models (LLMs) in solving visual-language tasks by integratingvisual information. The prevailing approach in existing MLLMs involvesemploying an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Tianxiang Wu , Minxin Nie , Ziqiang Cao

Despite the recent success of Large Language Models (LLMs), it remains challenging to feed LLMs with long prompts due to the fixed size of LLM inputs. As a remedy, prompt compression becomes a promising solution by removing redundant tokens…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Ziyang Yu , Yuyu Liu

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) face severe memory and latency bottlenecks due to high-resolution visual tokens. While current token reduction methods theoretically save FLOPs, post-hoc pruning introduces structural overhead, failing to yield…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Fengze Yang , Bo Yu , Xuewen Luo , Cathy Liu , Chenxi Liu

Large Vision Language Models (LVLMs) have recently emerged as powerful architectures capable of understanding and reasoning over both visual and textual information. These models typically rely on two key components: a Vision Transformer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Jiayun Luo , Wan-Cyuan Fan , Lyuyang Wang , Xiangteng He , Tanzila Rahman , Purang Abolmaesumi , Leonid Sigal

Visual token pruning aims to compress and prune redundant visual tokens which play a critical role in efficient inference with large vision-language models (LVLMs). However, most existing work estimates visual redundancy using a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Duo Li , Zuhao Yang , Xiaoqin Zhang , Ling Shao , Shijian Lu

Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) are powerful tools that are capable of reasoning and understanding multimodal information beyond text and language. Despite their entrenched impact, the development of LMMs is hindered by the higher…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Vittorio Pippi , Matthieu Guillaumin , Silvia Cascianelli , Rita Cucchiara , Maximilian Jaritz , Loris Bazzani

Multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) utilizing instruction-following data, such as LLaVA, have achieved great progress in the industry. A major limitation in these models is that visual tokens consume a substantial portion of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Ke Wang , Hong Xuan

In Vision-Language Models (VLMs), processing a massive number of visual tokens incurs prohibitive computational overhead. While recent training-aware pruning methods attempt to selectively discard redundant tokens, they largely rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Mingzhe Huang , Weijun Wang , Xin Ding , Liang Mi , Hao Wen , Yuanchun Li , Lichen Pang , Shansong Yang , Yunxin Liu , Ting Cao

Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success in source code understanding, yet as software systems grow in scale, computational efficiency has become a critical bottleneck. Currently, these models rely on a text-based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Yuling Shi , Chaoxiang Xie , Zhensu Sun , Yeheng Chen , Chenxu Zhang , Longfei Yun , Chengcheng Wan , Hongyu Zhang , David Lo , Xiaodong Gu

The fundamental challenge in scaling Video Large Language Models (Video LLMs) to long-form video lies in managing the explosion of visual-token context length. Existing strategies predominantly focus on "post-hoc" token reduction --…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Jihwan Kim , Nikhil Parthasarathy , Danfeng Qin , Junhwa Hur , Deqing Sun , Bohyung Han , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Boqing Gong

In this paper, we introduce LightVLM, a simple but effective method that can be seamlessly deployed upon existing Vision-Language Models (VLMs) to greatly accelerate the inference process in a training-free manner. We divide the inference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Lianyu Hu , Fanhua Shang , Wei Feng , Liang Wan