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Vision Large Language Models (VLLMs) incur high computational costs due to their reliance on hundreds of visual tokens to represent images. While token pruning offers a promising solution for accelerating inference, this paper, however,…

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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…

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Vision-language models (VLMs) have achieved impressive performance on multimodal reasoning tasks such as visual question answering, image captioning and so on, but their inference cost remains a significant challenge due to the large number…

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