arXiv Machine Learning

Activation-Informed Pareto-Guided Low-Rank Compression for Efficient LLM/VLM

arXiv:2510. 05544v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LLM) and vision-language models (VLM) have achieved state-of-the-art performance, but they impose significant memory and computing challenges in deployment.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 2

LASER: Loss-Aware Singular-value Decomposition and Rank Allocation for Efficient Low-Precision Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2606. 00573v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) deliver strong multimodal reasoning capabilities, but their large computational cost and high parameter counts make deployment challenging on resource-constrained devices.

By Haiyu Wang, Yutong Wang, Leshu Li, Yihui Ren, Sai Qian Zhang
arXiv AI
Sep 10

Mind the Approximation: Fisher-Weighted SVD Compression for ViTs

The paper introduces FACTS, a structured Fisher Approximation for compressing Vision Transformers (ViTs) using Fisher-weighted SVD, which enforces token‑local aggregation while preserving within‑token activation‑gradient dependence. It also presents Constrained Rank Search (CoRS) to optimize layer‑wise rank allocation under a fixed FLOP budget. Experiments on ViTs and hybrid architectures show that FACTS improves accuracy‑efficiency trade‑offs, outperforming the strongest SVD baseline by up to +5.8 percentage points on Swin‑B without requiring finetuning.

By Moritz Thoma, Maximilian Groezinger, Maximilian Forstenh\"ausler, Emad Aghajanzadeh, Ryan Pegoud, Manoj Rohit Vemparala, Pierpaolo Mori, Alexander Frickenstein, Daniel Mueller-Gritschneder, Ulf Schlichtmann
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 4

MuRA: Multi-Rank Adaptation for Efficient and Effective Test-Time Vision-Language Generalization

Vision-language models exhibit remarkable zero-shot capabilities but suffer significant performance degradation under distribution shifts. While test-time adaptation (TTA) via Low-Rank Adaptation offers a parameter-efficient solution, we identify a fundamental bottleneck in current methods: the reliance on static rank configurations.

arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 10

Prune Once: Retraining-Free Task-Agnostic Pruning for Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2608. 06901v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) have achieved remarkable generalization across diverse multimodal tasks through large-scale pre-training, yet their rapidly increasing computational and memory requirements pose significant challenges for deployment in constrained environments.

By Minseok Kang, Hyunwoo Kim, Chanyoung Kim, Minwoo Kim, Jaekoo Lee, Dahuin Jung