arXiv:2608.28691v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Wearable VLM pipelines promise continuous multimodal assistance from egocentric visual capture: a user asks a task-driven question about the surround...
By Zhimin Li, Pan Wang, Jingxian Chen, Yuantao Tang, Anthony Chen, Qian Lou, Jingtong Hu
arXiv:2609.12168v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Visual Question Answering (VQA) systems, jointly interpreting images and natural language queries, hold significant promise across many domains, yet th...
By Md Khalid Syfullah, Alvi Ataur Khalil
CoverPruner is a training‑free visual token pruner that reframes token pruning as a representational coverage maximization problem. Instead of selecting which tokens to keep, it asks which surviving token best represents each removed token for a vision‑language model. Experiments on various VLM architectures show that CoverPruner consistently outperforms existing methods, especially under high compression rates.
By Qingchan Zhu, Weihang You, Hanqi Jiang, Changdi Yang, Tianming Liu, Geng Yuan
arXiv:2608. 11691v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement-learning (RL) post-training equips multimodal large reasoning models (MLRMs) with exploratory chains of thought (CoT), substantially improving visual reasoning.
By Xinhao Zhong, Yuxia Qiao, Junhao Li, Hao Fang, Yi Sun, Bin Chen
arXiv:2609.34330v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have demonstrated impressive performance in multimodal understanding, but processing large numbers of visu...
By Tinghao Wang, Yichen Guo, Qizhe Zhang, Yuan Zhang, Weimin Ouyang, Rui Huang, Jiajun Cao, Sixiang Chen, Hao Jiang, Jixian Wu, Zheng Lu, Bofan Zhu, Renyuan Li, Shanghang Zhang
arXiv:2609.39134v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Visual-token compression improves the efficiency of large vision-language models, but can expose failures that full-token evaluation misses. We study a...
By Shilinlu Yan, Bowen Chen, Yuechen Zhang, Zhenhong Zhou, Li Sun, Sen Su
arXiv:2607. 23913v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern vision-language models (VLMs) increasingly rely on dynamic or high-resolution visual encoding, producing thousands of visual tokens that substantially increase downstream language-model inference cost.
By Jun Ling, Tao Huang, Junzhuo Liu, Bowen Tang, Peng Wang
arXiv:2607. 13541v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: To overcome data scarcity and privacy constraints in data collection, it has become standard practice across academia and industry to augment real training data with text-to-image (T2I)-generated synthetic data, a paradigm we term Real-Synthetic Mix-Training (RSMT).
By Na Li, Boyu Kuang, Hongsheng Hu, Liquan Chen, Hyoungshick Kim, Yansong Gao, Anmin Fu
SinkPruner is a training‑free framework that prunes visual tokens for multimodal large language models by first removing high‑norm redundant tokens with a visual sanitizer and then selectively keeping tokens that align with the text query using a text‑guided pruner. The coarse‑to‑fine design reduces attention sink and dispersion, enabling an 89% token reduction while preserving 96.5% of LLaVA‑1.5’s performance and 91.8% of Qwen2.5‑VL’s performance across twelve image‑language and four video‑language benchmarks. The visual sanitizer also improves existing pruning methods, showing strong transferability.
By Shiyu Li, Zi-Yuan Hu, Shijia Huang, Yanyang Li, Yiwu Zhong, Liwei Wang
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.
arXiv:2602. 09611v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Watermarking has emerged as a pivotal solution for content traceability and intellectual property protection in large vision language models (LVLMs).
By Yue Li, Xin Yi, Dongsheng Shi, Yongyi Cui, Gerard de Melo, Linlin Wang
arXiv:2608. 06411v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) achieve strong performance across diverse vision-language tasks, but their efficiency is limited by the cost of processing numerous visual tokens.
By Yuyao Sun, Tao Deng, Shuang Li, Deqing Wang, Hao Geng, Minjun Yu