With the rapid development of vision-language models (VLMs), Web-GUI agents have achieved promising performance in interacting with real-world interfaces through screenshot-based grounding. However, h...
The paper shows that only a small subset of attention heads in vision-language models is responsible for selecting critical visual tokens. By pruning tokens based on similarity before LLM reasoning and then applying head‑aware pruning during reasoning, the proposed ProViP framework achieves high task performance with significant speedups. Experiments on LLaVA‑1.5‑7B demonstrate 95.9% performance retention and a 1.62× inference speedup at an 88.9% pruning ratio.
arXiv:2609.10346v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) process hundreds or thousands of visual tokens per image, incurring prohibitive inference costs. While existin...
The paper introduces Adaptive Visual Token Pruning (AVTP), a training‑free framework that dynamically selects pruning layers and ratios for large vision‑language models (LVLMs) when processing multiple image sequences. By analyzing visual attention distributions across different LVLM architectures, AVTP adapts token retention to image importance, enabling efficient inference without relying on attention‑based computations incompatible with FlashAttention. Experiments show significant speedups—up to 2× for Qwen3VL‑8B—while preserving or even improving accuracy on multi‑image benchmarks.
LearnPrunerV2 is a fully learnable token‑pruning framework for Vision‑Language Models that replaces heuristic pruning with lightweight modules in every backbone layer. These modules estimate token importance by combining visual saliency and query relevance via a shadow token, revealing a consistent staircase redundancy pattern across layers. The method introduces Budget‑Deterministic Pruning to set fixed per‑layer budgets, achieving state‑of‑the‑art efficiency while preserving 99.8% of performance even after pruning 77.8% of visual tokens on LLaVA‑v1.5.
Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated remarkable multimodal capabilities but suffer from prohibitive computational overhead due to the massive number of visual tokens. While token pruning is...
arXiv:2605.11212v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Computer-use agents (CUAs) rely on visual observations of graphical user interfaces, where each screenshot is encoded into a large number of visual...
GUI-KV is a plug‑and‑play key‑value cache compression method designed for graphical user interface agents that use vision‑language models. It exploits spatial saliency and temporal redundancy to prune cache entries, achieving near‑full‑cache accuracy while using modest memory budgets. Experiments on standard GUI agent benchmarks show significant reductions in decoding FLOPs and improvements in step accuracy compared to existing compression baselines.
arXiv:2609.10297v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: GUI agents accumulate high-resolution screenshots as the trajectory unfolds, increasing inference latency and memory usage. Training-free visual token...
arXiv:2606. 29705v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Data, as the fundamental substrate of modern intelligence, has greatly driven the development of current foundation models.
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.
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.