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. 08029v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The emergence of vision language models with fewer than 3 billion parameters has accelerated the implementation of on-device multimodal intelligence.
By Hyeju Shin, Chorwon Kim, Ryangsoo Kim, Hark Yoo, Jaein Kim
arXiv:2512. 08240v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) rely on hundreds of visual tokens, leading to high computational and memory costs.
By Jusheng Zhang, Xiaoyang Guo, Tongyu Mo, Qinhan Lv, Wenhao Chai, Jian Wang, Keze Wang, Liang Lin
arXiv:2606. 17118v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Mixture-of-Experts Multimodal Large Language Models (MoE-MLLMs) offer remarkable performance but incur prohibitive GPU memory costs, making compression essential.
By Yuanteng Chen, Peisong Wang, Zhilei Liu, Nanxin Zeng, Yuantian Shao, Shiqiang Lang, Tao Liu, Chuangyi Li, Qinghao Hu, Gang Li, Jing Liu, Jian Cheng
arXiv:2607. 13095v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present a full-pipeline inference optimization for the MiMo-V2.
By Xiaomi MiMo Team, Anqi Liu, Aoxin Ma, Bo Chen, Bo Yang, Chen Wang, Chen Zhang, Chengda Tang, Chengwei Wang, Chiheng Lou, Depeng Yan, Fuli Luo, Gang Wang, Hailin Zhang, Jiale Sun, Kang Zhou, Rui Huang, Shaohui Liu, Shen Huang, Shijie Cao, Shuaishuai Fan, Tianling Zhou, Xiangwei Deng, Xueyang Xie, Xuli Wang, Yingchun Lai, Yu Yang, Yuan Zhang, Zhen Tang, Zhonghua Deng, Zihan Jiang
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:2606. 00079v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) large language models reduce per-token computation through sparse expert activation, but their deployment remains memory-intensive because all expert weights must be kept resident in memory.
By Jiayu Zhao, Zihan Teng, Minhao Fan, Tianrui Ma, Wentao Ren, Song Chen, Weichen Liu
arXiv:2607. 25669v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Emerging Omni-modal Large Language Models (OmniLLMs) enable unified understanding of text, audio, and video, but their long audio-video token sequences introduce substantial memory and inference costs.
By Haoyang Huang, Wenjie Huang, Tianqi Xu, Hongyaoxing Gu, Kang Tan, Yikai Fu, Yuhao Shen, Tianyu Liu, Baolin Zhang, Jun Zhang, Xinyi Hu, Jun Dai, Shuang Ge, Lei Chen, Yue Li, Mingchen Wang, Meng Zhang
arXiv:2608. 04454v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Mixture-of-experts vision-language models (MoE-VLMs) increase model capacity with sparse expert activation, yet deployment requires storing the full expert pool.
By Hongyu Zhang, Cheng Yan, Xiang Xia, Wuyang Zhang
arXiv:2606. 01790v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language-model-based graphical user interface (GUI) agents have shown broad automation capabilities, yet deployment is bottlenecked by a key-value (KV) cache that grows linearly with interaction steps.
By Yuhang Han, Wenzheng Yang, Yujie Chen, Xiangqi Jin, Yaojie Zhang, Siteng Huang, Linfeng Zhang
arXiv:2605. 05225v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Mixture-of-Experts Multimodal Large Language Models (MoE MLLMs) suffer from a significant efficiency bottleneck during Expert Parallelism (EP) inference due to the straggler effect.
By Bo Li, Chuan Wu, Shaolin Zhu
arXiv:2606. 23743v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern video diffusion models achieve higher generation quality through scaling, but this also increases inference cost.
By Yitong Li, Junsong Chen, Haopeng Li, Haozhe Liu, Jincheng Yu, Ligeng Zhu, Ping Luo, Song Han, Enze Xie