arXiv:2608.20473v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Video language models process videos as dense visual-token sequences with substantial representational redundancy. Compressing these sequences is there...
In video understanding, vision-language models (VLMs) must ingest massive numbers of visual tokens, causing the computational and memory cost of the prefill stage to rise sharply. Such visual sequences are highly redundant along the spatio-temporal dimension, yet a high compression ratio is often accompanied by the loss of critical details.
arXiv:2605. 16366v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Video MLLMs face a persistent tension between spatial fidelity and temporal coverage: preserving fine-grained visual details requires many spatial tokens, while capturing short-lived events requires dense temporal sampling.
arXiv:2608.24293v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Latent diffusion models have emerged as a dominant framework for high-fidelity image and video synthesis, operating in compact latent spaces with varia...
arXiv:2608. 03112v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language models excel at image and video understanding but suffer from high inference latency due to the need to process thousands of tokens per image, limiting their deployment on resource-constrained edge devices and in real-time surveillance applications.
arXiv:2603. 00198v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Token reduction accelerates long-video vision--language models (VLMs), but existing methods target Transformers, where reduction is treated as token pruning.
arXiv:2606. 13289v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Holistic visual tokenizers are fundamental to unified multimodal models (UMMs) as they map diverse visual inputs into a unified representation space.
arXiv:2602. 01801v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Autoregressive video diffusion models enable streaming generation, opening the door to long-form synthesis, video world models, and interactive neural game engines.
Abundant visual information strengthens vision-language model (VLM) perception, yet massive visual tokens raise inference costs. Existing visual token pruning methods rely on similarity-based guidance, which exploits pairwise text-vision and vision-vision token correlations for compression.
The paper introduces a token‑oriented semantic communication framework that transmits only task‑relevant image latents instead of full token embeddings, reducing communication cost and improving interoperability. It leverages a spatial alignment between vision transformer patch tokens and learned image compression latents, enabling token‑level relevance estimation and selective transmission. Experiments on ImageNet demonstrate a superior rate–accuracy trade‑off compared to existing semantic communication methods and hand‑crafted codecs.
The paper introduces PAYN, a training‑free token compression strategy for Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM) based Referring Expression Segmentation (RES). By preserving original position embeddings and local spatial structures, PAYN retains tokens that are evenly distributed across neighboring regions, thereby maintaining spatial relational consistency. Experiments on multiple RES benchmarks show that PAYN outperforms existing token compression methods, confirming that position information alone is sufficient for effective compression in this task.
arXiv:2603.17825v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In this work, we study the role of Massive Activations (MAs), which are rare, high-magnitude spikes confined to a few fixed hidden dimensions in vi...