arXiv Computer Vision

Channel-Wise and Token-Aware Post-Training Quantization for Visual State Space Duality

arXiv AI
Aug 28

PACE: A Unified Condense-and-Extract Paradigm for Fast VLM Inference

PACE introduces a training‑free Condense‑and‑Extract framework that speeds up Vision‑Language Model inference by first adaptively downsampling visual inputs before encoding and then selectively retaining essential tokens during decoding. The Adaptive Pixel Compressor (APC) reduces encoder workload while preserving global context, and the Dynamic Dual‑Attention Extractor (DDAE) keeps task‑critical details by fusing visual and language signals. Applied to Qwen2.5‑VL‑7B, PACE maintains 93.8% of performance using only 10% of visual tokens, achieving a 3.1× speedup in time to first token.

By Junjie Liu, Shengyuan Ye, Xu Chen
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 25

VQ-Transplant: Efficient VQ-Module Integration for Pre-trained Visual Tokenizers

VQ-Transplant is a framework that allows new vector‑quantization (VQ) modules to be inserted into frozen, pre‑trained visual tokenizers without retraining the entire model. By preserving all encoder‑decoder parameters and adding a lightweight decoder adaptation trained for only five epochs on ImageNet‑1k, the method mitigates decoder‑quantization mismatch. Experiments show that VQ-Transplant achieves near state‑of‑the‑art reconstruction fidelity for industry‑level models such as VAR while cutting training costs by 95%.

By Xianghong Fang, Yuan Yuan, Dehan Kong, Tim G. J. Rudner
arXiv AI
Oct 2

MWOP: Modality-aware Width-wise Operation Pruning for Efficient MLLMs

MWOP (Modality-aware Width-wise Operation Pruning) is a method that independently prunes visual‑to‑visual, text‑to‑visual, and text‑to‑text attention paths within each layer of multimodal large language models, and separately selects feed‑forward network channels for visual and textual inputs. It uses a first‑order Taylor criterion to guide pruning, re‑evaluates FFN importance after attention pruning, and applies LoRA‑based recovery training. The approach is paired with path‑sparse Triton attention kernels and compact visual‑side FFN execution to achieve practical acceleration, preserving token sequences while reducing computation. "whyItMatters":"MWOP achieves a 1.6× prefill speedup on LLaVA‑OneVision‑7B while retaining 99.7% performance, and further boosts token‑compression methods to 2.9× and 2.7× speedups, demonstrating its effectiveness across architectures."

By Xudong Wang, Hao Wu, Haozhe Hu, Peiran Yin, Xinghao Chen, Yunpu Ma, Wei Zhang, Xiaoyu Shen
arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 5

VisionMX: Unlocking Microscaling Post-Training Quantization for Vision Models

VisionMX introduces a post‑training microscaling (MX) quantization technique for vision models, addressing three key error sources identified in direct conversion: block‑scale representation, misalignment of small convolutional weight tensors, and underuse of signed codes for nonnegative activations. The method optimizes bounded weight rounding and incorporates a foldable affine correction for activations, improving performance across image classification, object detection, semantic segmentation, and low‑light image enhancement tasks. VisionMX outperforms direct conversion and other post‑training quantization baselines, especially in architectures most sensitive to MX conversion.

By Elad Dror Cohen, Ofir Gordon, Lior Dikstein, Idan Achituve, Hai Victor Habi