arXiv:2606. 12412v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) project images into hundreds to thousands of visual tokens, making decoder inference expensive in both attention computation and KV-cache memory.
By Cheng-Yu Yang, Shao-Yuan Lo, Yu-Lun Liu
arXiv:2610.07758v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Training-free token reduction accelerates vision transformers by removing redundant tokens across layers, recovering most of the original accuracy at...
By Hyeongheon Cha, Hyungjun Yoon, Sung-Ju Lee
arXiv:2608.29281v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Natural images concentrate their detail in a small fraction of the frame, yet diffusion models spend a full token on every patch, in every layer and at...
By Eduard Zamfir, Christian Reisswig, Zongwei Wu, Yongqin Xian, Radu Timofte
arXiv:2610.33688v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Visual token pruning substantially reduces the inference cost of multimodal large language models (MLLMs), yet existing methods are mostly training-fre...
By Peiran Yin, Hao Wu, Zihao Yang, Haozhe Hu, Xudong Wang, Xiaoyu Shen
The paper introduces GLANCE, a one‑pass block drafting method that enables lossless speculative decoding for vision‑language models. By using a block‑diffusion head that reads the fused vision‑language state, GLANCE eliminates the need for the drafter to process the image at every step, allowing it to fill an entire block in a single forward pass. Experiments show that GLANCE can decode up to 2.93× faster than autoregressive decoding while maintaining exact greedy decoding results across multiple tasks.
By Jungseob Lee, Seongtae Hong, Dongyub Jude Lee, Chanjun Park, Jaehyung Seo, Sugyeong Eo, Heuiseok Lim
arXiv:2605. 25820v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Diffusion-based multimodal large language models (dMLLMs) decode by iteratively predicting tokens at multiple masked positions in parallel.
By Yulin Yuan, Hongshuo Zhao, Xiangming Meng
arXiv:2608. 01821v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Diffusion vision-language models (dVLMs) iteratively denoise masked responses while conditioning each denoising step on visual evidence, making visual conditioning a substantial recurring inference cost.
By Yongkang Zhou, Xiang Xia, Cheng Yan, Fan Xu, Wuyang Zhang
arXiv:2610.32233v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Fixed-window Vision Transformer (ViT) decoders run at deployment resolution as overlapping tiles: every token in an overlap band is processed by severa...
By Xiangzhong Ye, Zhongshen Li, Shen You, Ziyang Meng, Liang Xu, Junkai Ji, Qiuzhen Lin, Xiangtao Li, Ka-Chun Wong
arXiv:2609.05916v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Large vision-language models (LVLMs) achieve strong multimodal understanding, but the hundreds to thousands of visual tokens they process impose subs...
By Yichen Guo, Tinghao Wang, Qizhe Zhang, Lingbei Meng, Yuan Zhang, Jiajun Cao, Hao Jiang, Chenwei Wu, Jixian Wu, Sixiang Chen, Tao Luo, Hongyang Cheng, Kai Tang, Chenxi Li, Renyuan Li, Xiande Huang, Wenya Wang, Shanghang Zhang
arXiv:2609.01224v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Visual token pruning reduces the inference overhead of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) by retaining only a subset of visual tokens. Existing m...
By Yuanyuan Jia, Shunpu Tang, Qianqian Yang
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.
By Jindong Jiang, Amala Sanjay Deshmukh, Kateryna Chumachenko, Karan Sapra, Zhiding Yu, Guilin Liu, Andrew Tao, Pavlo Molchanov, Jan Kautz, Wonmin Byeon
BudgetPix introduces a compute‑adaptive tokenization framework for pixel‑space image diffusion, dynamically allocating computational resources based on visual complexity and spatial layout. It comprises an adaptive encoder using an entropy‑guided quadtree and multi‑scale patch embedder, a scale‑aware decoder, and a flexible training schedule that allows pixel‑space denoisers to operate across variable token counts. The method integrates with existing diffusion architectures, achieving comparable fidelity to larger models while using only a fraction of the compute budget, and demonstrates improved quality‑efficiency tradeoffs in both text‑to‑image and class‑conditional generation.
By Ozgur Kara, Yujia Chen, Daniel Watson, David Forsyth, James Matthew Rehg, Wen-Sheng Chu, Du Tran