arXiv AI

Attend, Transform, or Silence: Operator-Level Visual Skipping for Efficient Multimodal LLM Inference

arXiv:2606. 31903v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) increasingly process long visual-token sequences, increasing the overall inference computation.

arXiv AI
Jun 16

Token Reduction Should Go Beyond Efficiency in Generative Models -- From Vision, Language to Multimodality

arXiv:2505. 18227v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In Transformer architectures, tokens\textemdash discrete units derived from raw data\textemdash are formed by segmenting inputs into fixed-length chunks.

By Zhenglun Kong, Yize Li, Fanhu Zeng, Lei Xin, Shvat Messica, Xue Lin, Pu Zhao, Manolis Kellis, Hao Tang, Marinka Zitnik
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 2

Information-Regularized Attention for Visual-Centric Reasoning

arXiv:2607. 00434v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) have become a paradigm for multimodal learning, yet remain unstable due to object hallucination, weak visual grounding, and catastrophic forgetting after full-parameter instruction tuning.

By Guohao Sun, Xiaofang Wang, Yash Patel, Mengchen Liu, Zhiqiang Tao, Praveen Krishnan
arXiv AI
Jul 28

MM-ShiftKV: Decode-Aware Prefill-Stage KV Selection for Multimodal Large Language Models

arXiv:2607. 22586v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Key-Value (KV) caching is essential for efficient inference in multimodal large language models (MLLMs), yet its memory footprint grows linearly with context length and becomes a major bottleneck due to the large number of visual tokens.

By Jinsong Shu, Chenyang Wu, Zhongle Xie, Baokun Wang, Lidan Shou