arXiv:2512. 16349v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We propose a collaborative edge-to-server inference framework for vision-language models (VLMs) that reduces communication cost while maintaining inference accuracy.
arXiv:2604. 26508v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Deploying Vision-Language Models (VLMs) on edge devices remains challenging due to their substantial computational and memory demands, which exceed the capabilities of resource-constrained embedded platforms.
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.
Multimodal foundation models are reshaping edge-cloud visual intelligence from task-specific feature pipelines into token-based interfaces, where edge devices encode visual inputs into tokens for a general-purpose cloud MLLM. However, dense visual-token sequences increase cloud-side inference costs.
arXiv:2610.01625v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Federated parameter-efficient fine-tuning enables distributed clients to adapt pretrained vision-language models without sharing raw data or updating t...
arXiv:2607. 06982v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have demonstrated encouraging results in image classification tasks.
arXiv:2606. 04433v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) are increasingly used in multi-image, multi-turn agentic settings where decisions depend on visual changes.
The paper introduces EMMI, a framework that enables communication‑efficient inference of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) on edge devices. EMMI encodes each sensor modality separately, fuses the representations, and compresses them into a compact latent vector that is transmitted to a server for high‑capacity reasoning. Experiments on a multimodal benchmark show that EMMI can cut the communication payload by 32× while keeping accuracy comparable, achieving up to a 3.4× reduction in end‑to‑end inference latency under bandwidth‑constrained conditions.
Visual token pruning is a promising approach to reducing the inference cost of large vision-language models (LVLMs), yet aggressive token reduction often causes substantial performance degradation. We...
Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have demonstrated encouraging results in image classification tasks. However, the prohibitive computational cost of CNNs hinders the deployment of CNNs onto resource-constrained embedded devices.
arXiv:2606. 11576v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern Vision-Language Models (VLMs) benefit from chain-of-thought prompting and test-time scaling, but these gains often come with prohibitive inference cost due to large visual contexts and long decoding chains.
arXiv:2606. 01503v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Unified vision-language models (VLMs) integrate visual understanding and visual generation within a single autoregressive backbone, but their joint training is computationally expensive and largely overlooked from an efficiency perspective.
arXiv:2508.03351v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across diverse language tasks, motivating their extension to vision-la...