arXiv:2606. 27161v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have achieved strong multimodal reasoning capabilities, but their efficiency is limited by the large number of visual tokens, which introduces substantial computational overhead.
By Tinghao Wang, Yichen Guo, Rui Huang, Zheng Lu, Qizhe Zhang, Chenxi Li, Yuan Zhang, Jiajun Cao, Zhirong Shen, Yaosong Du, Guangyan Gan, Wenya Wang, Lin William Cong, Shanghang Zhang
arXiv:2604. 11530v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have revolutionized multi-modal learning by jointly processing visual and textual information.
By Yvon Apedo, Martyna Poreba, Michal Szczepanski, Samia Bouchafa
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.
By Jusheng Zhang, Xiaoyang Guo, Tongyu Mo, Qinhan Lv, Wenhao Chai, Jian Wang, Keze Wang, Liang Lin
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:2608. 07088v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) encode images as long visual token sequences, making prefilling and KV-cache storage expensive.
By Qiyanhui Lu, Han Wu, Rongjian Xu, Tingzhang Luo, Cheng Fan, Xinghao Chen, Minjing Dong, Jufeng Yang, Jianyuan Guo
arXiv:2605. 13178v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In large vision-language models, visual tokens typically constitute the majority of input tokens, leading to substantial computational overhead.
By Sangin Lee, Yukyung Choi
arXiv:2606. 08156v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision Transformers (ViTs) achieve strong performance but suffer from high computational costs due to quadratic self-attention complexity.
By Kyumin Choi, Ikbeom Jang
arXiv:2604. 00757v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large Vision Language Models show impressive performance across image and video understanding tasks, yet their computational cost grows rapidly with the number of visual tokens.
By Dong-Jae Lee, Sunghyun Baek, Junmo Kim
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
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:2607. 04593v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities across different tasks, but their computational cost is dominated by the large number of visual tokens fed to the language model.
By Riccardo Renzulli, Gabriele Spadaro, Shruthi Gowda, Alaa Eddine Mazouz, Van-Tam Nguyen
arXiv:2608. 07193v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Visual-token pruning can substantially reduce the inference cost of multimodal large language models (MLLMs), yet existing methods largely rely on fixed, handcrafted heuristics and costly expert trial and error.
By Zhen Liu, Wenli Huang, Wei Song, Yuhan Liu, Zhiqin Yang, Jingwen Fu