arXiv:2608. 16192v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative visual-token communication reduces transmission load by sending only selected discrete tokens and reconstructing missing content at the receiver.
By Jia Guo, Xiaohan Zhao, Changwang Liu, Shuqing He, Chenyang Zhang, Bingchuan Zhao, Jinqi Zhu
arXiv:2602. 12338v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Token Communications (TokenCom) has recently emerged as an effective new paradigm, where tokens are the unified units of multimodal communications and computations, enabling efficient digital semantic- and goal-oriented communications in future wireless networks.
By Farshad Zeinali, Mahdi Boloursaz Mashhadi, Rahim Tafazolli
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
Learned image compression (LIC) has achieved impressive rate-distortion performance. However, existing methods remain highly vulnerable to packet loss, a common challenge in satellite and emergency communications.
arXiv:2505. 10946v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Token communications (TokenCom) is an emerging generative semantic communication paradigm, where tokens serve as compact representation units across modalities.
By Li Qiao, Mahdi Boloursaz Mashhadi, Zhen Gao, Robert Schober, Deniz G\"und\"uz
arXiv:2607. 05419v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate and timely channel state information (CSI) is essential for next-generation wireless systems, yet existing works treat CSI compression and CSI prediction as separate problems, both in academia and in current 3GPP studies.
By Ahmed Y. Radwan, Hina Tabassum, Fahad Syed Muhammad, Matthew Baker
Efficient multimodal inference is increasingly constrained not only by model quality or FLOP count, but also by the cost of preserving, moving, routing, caching, and quantizing multimodal representations under latency, memory, and energy constraints. This paper reviews recent advances in efficient vision-language and multimodal large language models, covering visual token compression, video token management, KV-cache optimization, Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) routing, low-bit quantization, edge deployment, and hardware-aware benchmarking.
arXiv:2607. 20981v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Efficient multimodal inference is increasingly constrained not only by model quality or FLOP count, but also by the cost of preserving, moving, routing, caching, and quantizing multimodal representations under latency, memory, and energy constraints.
By Jay Gor, Karm Dave, Akshita Abrol, Rajesh Gupta, Sudeep Tanwar, Zhengkui Wang
arXiv:2608. 03112v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language models excel at image and video understanding but suffer from high inference latency due to the need to process thousands of tokens per image, limiting their deployment on resource-constrained edge devices and in real-time surveillance applications.
By Paribesh Regmi, Qingshuang Chen, Chi Zhang, Heba Aly, Yelin Kim, Hongda Mao
In video understanding, vision-language models (VLMs) must ingest massive numbers of visual tokens, causing the computational and memory cost of the prefill stage to rise sharply. Such visual sequences are highly redundant along the spatio-temporal dimension, yet a high compression ratio is often accompanied by the loss of critical details.
arXiv:2606. 28027v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Neural video codecs have surpassed classical codecs in coding efficiency but remain impractical for deployment due to cross-platform incompatibility and high computational cost.
By Tanel P\"arnamaa, Martin Lumiste, Ardi Loot, Evgenii Indenbom, Andrei Znobishchev, Ando Saabas
arXiv:2605. 16366v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Video MLLMs face a persistent tension between spatial fidelity and temporal coverage: preserving fine-grained visual details requires many spatial tokens, while capturing short-lived events requires dense temporal sampling.
By Yigui Feng (The College of Computer Science, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, Hunan, China), Qinglin Wang (The College of Computer Science, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, Hunan, China), Yang Liu (The Shien-Ming Wu School of Intelligent Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China), Jie Liu (The College of Computer Science, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, Hunan, China)