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Vision-language models (VLMs) have recently expanded from static image understanding to video reasoning, but their scalability is fundamentally limited by the quadratic cost of processing dense frame sequences. Long videos often exceed the…

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In this paper, we introduce PruneVid, a visual token pruning method designed to enhance the efficiency of multi-modal video understanding. Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown promising performance in video tasks due to their extended…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Xiaohu Huang , Hao Zhou , Kai Han

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) incur high computational costs due to significant redundancy in their visual tokens. To effectively reduce this cost, researchers have proposed various visual token pruning methods. However, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Wen Luo , Peng Chen , Xiaotao Huang , LiQun Huang

Recent progress in Multimodal Large Language Models(MLLMs) often use large image tokens to compensate the visual shortcoming of MLLMs, which not only exhibits obvious redundancy but also greatly exacerbates the already high computation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Weihao Ye , Qiong Wu , Wenhao Lin , Yiyi Zhou

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) rely on dense visual tokens to capture fine-grained visual information, but processing all these tokens incurs substantial computational and memory overhead during inference. To address this issue, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Xu Li , Yi Zheng , Yuxuan Liang , Zhe Liu , Xiaolei Chen , Haotian Chen , Rui Zhu , Xiangyang Xue

Video Large Language Models have demonstrated strong video understanding capabilities, yet their practical deployment is hindered by substantial inference costs caused by redundant video tokens. Existing pruning techniques fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Leqi Shen , Guoqiang Gong , Tao He , Yifeng Zhang , Pengzhang Liu , Sicheng Zhao , Guiguang Ding

Vision Language Models (VLMs) struggle with long-form videos due to the quadratic complexity of attention mechanisms. We propose Language-Guided Temporal Token Pruning (LGTTP), which leverages temporal cues from queries to adaptively prune…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Yogesh Kumar

Visual token compression is critical for Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) to efficiently process high-resolution inputs. Existing methods that typically adopt fixed compression ratios cannot adapt to scenes of varying complexity, often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Quan-Sheng Zeng , Yunheng Li , Qilong Wang , Peng-Tao Jiang , Zuxuan Wu , Ming-Ming Cheng , Qibin Hou

Online video understanding is essential for applications like public surveillance and AI glasses. However, applying Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) to this domain is challenging due to the large number of video frames, resulting in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Xinqi Jin , Hanxun Yu , Bohan Yu , Kebin Liu , Jian Liu , Keda Tao , Yixuan Pei , Huan Wang , Fan Dang , Jiangchuan Liu , Weiqiang Wang

Due to the great saving of computation and memory overhead, token compression has become a research hot-spot for MLLMs and achieved remarkable progress in image-language tasks. However, for the video, existing methods still fall short of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Shaobo Ju , Baiyang Song , Tao Chen , Jiapeng Zhang , Qiong Wu , Chao Chang , HuaiXi Wang , Yiyi Zhou , Rongrong Ji

Video large language models (VideoLLMs) show strong capability in video understanding, yet long-context inference is still dominated by massive redundant visual tokens in the prefill stage. We revisit token compression for VideoLLMs under a…

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Egomotion videos are first-person recordings where the view changes continuously due to the agent's movement. As they serve as the primary visual input for embodied AI agents, making egomotion video reasoning more efficient is therefore…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Jiaao Li , Kaiyuan Li , Chen Gao , Yong Li , Xinlei Chen

Recent multimodal large language models are computationally expensive because Transformers must process a large number of visual tokens. We present ReDiPrune, a training-free token pruning method applied before the vision-language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 An Yu , Ting Yu Tsai , Zhenfei Zhang , Weiheng Lu , Felix X. -F. Ye , Ming-Ching Chang

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) incur substantial inference cost due to the processing of hundreds of visual tokens per image. Although token pruning has proven effective for accelerating inference, determining when and where to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Yahong Wang , Juncheng Wu , Zhangkai Ni , Chengmei Yang , Yihang Liu , Longzhen Yang , Yuyin Zhou , Ying Wen , Lianghua He

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) process multimodal inputs consisting of text tokens and vision tokens extracted from images or videos. Due to the rich visual information, a single image can generate thousands of vision tokens, leading…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Zicong Tang , Ziyang Ma , Suqing Wang , Zuchao Li , Lefei Zhang , Hai Zhao , Yun Li , Qianren Wang

Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) have emerged as powerful models capable of understanding various data modalities, including text, images, and videos. LMMs encode both text and visual data into tokens that are then combined and processed by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Saeed Ranjbar Alvar , Gursimran Singh , Mohammad Akbari , Yong Zhang

Video large language models (VLLMs) have significantly advanced recently in processing complex video content, yet their inference efficiency remains constrained because of the high computational cost stemming from the thousands of visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Keda Tao , Can Qin , Haoxuan You , Yang Sui , Huan Wang

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) represent a significant advancement toward achieving superior multimodal capabilities by enabling powerful Large Language Models (LLMs) to understand visual input. Typically, LVLMs utilize visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Lei Jiang , Weizhe Huang , Tongxuan Liu , Yuting Zeng , Jing Li , Lechao Cheng , Xiaohua Xu

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) encode images and videos into abundant tokens, which contain substantial redundancy and computation cost. While visual token pruning mitigates the issue, most existing methods lack insight into the intrinsic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Jizhihui Liu , Feiyi Du , Guangdao Zhu , Niu Lian , Jun Li , Bin Chen , Weili Guan , Yaowei Wang
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