arXiv AI
Aug 12
Hybrid Token Compression for Vision-Language Models
arXiv:2512. 08240v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) rely on hundreds of visual tokens, leading to high computational and memory costs.
VQ-Transplant: Efficient VQ-Module Integration for Pre-trained Visual Tokenizers
VQ-Transplant is a framework that allows new vector‑quantization (VQ) modules to be inserted into frozen, pre‑trained visual tokenizers without retraining the entire model. By preserving all encoder‑decoder parameters and adding a lightweight decoder adaptation trained for only five epochs on ImageNet‑1k, the method mitigates decoder‑quantization mismatch. Experiments show that VQ-Transplant achieves near state‑of‑the‑art reconstruction fidelity for industry‑level models such as VAR while cutting training costs by 95%.
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Selective Coupling of Decoupled Informative Regions: Masked Attention Alignment for Data-Free Quantization of Vision Transformers
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