arXiv:2606. 03569v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities but suffer from significant computational overhead during inference.
By Jiahui Wang, Kai Zhang, Mai Han, Huanghe Zhang
Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities but suffer from significant computational overhead during inference. While visual token pruning offers a promising solution, existing methods predominantly rely on initial attention scores.
arXiv:2607. 24017v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The empirical success of attention mechanism in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) often obscures its inherent, subtle flaws.
By Pengkun Jiao, Bin Zhu, Jingjing Chen, Yu-gang Jiang
arXiv:2608. 06411v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) achieve strong performance across diverse vision-language tasks, but their efficiency is limited by the cost of processing numerous visual tokens.
By Yuyao Sun, Tao Deng, Shuang Li, Deqing Wang, Hao Geng, Minjun Yu
arXiv:2606. 23763v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent work typically assesses vision--language consistency using attention distributions of answer-side tokens.
By Yiyang Chen, Yixin Tan, Binrui Shen
arXiv:2605. 20950v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) face a bottleneck of prohibitive computational costs arising from massive visual token sequences during inference.
By Yulin Zhao, Zheng Zhang
arXiv:2606. 12364v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Transformers dominate modern sequence modeling, but their quadratic attention incurs substantial computational cost.
By Anamaria-Roberta Hartl, Levente Z\'olyomi, David Stap, Pieter-Jan Hoedt, Niklas Schmidinger, Lukas Hauzenberger, Sebastian B\"ock, G\"unter Klambauer, Sepp Hochreiter
arXiv:2606. 31903v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) increasingly process long visual-token sequences, increasing the overall inference computation.
By Zhaoyang Luo, Runmin Dong, Miao Yang, Fan Wei, Yushan Lai, Bin Luo, Haohuan Fu
arXiv:2604. 14363v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Multimodal language models systematically underperform on visual perception tasks, yet the structure underlying this failure remains poorly understood.
By Akshay Paruchuri, Ishan Chatterjee, Henry Fuchs, Ehsan Adeli, Piotr Didyk
arXiv:2308. 06035v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Humans routinely draw on visual context to predict upcoming words.
By Viktor Kewenig, Andrew Lampinen, Samuel A. Nastase, Christopher Edwards, Quitterie Lacome D'Elascombe, Akilles Rechardt, Jeremy I Skipper, Gabriella Vigliocco
arXiv:2607. 08152v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: On the recent EyeBench benchmark, predicting reading comprehension from eye movements exposes a stark gap: text-aware models using pretrained language models reach 56--63% AUROC, while gaze-only models operate at chance.
By Sumin Lee, Kyeonghun Kim, Subeen Lee, Jiwon Yang, Tien Nguyen, Ken Ying-Kai Liao, Nam-Joon Kim
arXiv:2607. 03738v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) generate responses autoregressively, integrating visual and linguistic information in an evolving context.
By Varun Gupta, Vineet Gandhi, Makarand Tapaswi