arXiv AI

SEMA: a Scalable and Efficient Mamba like Attention via Token Localization and Averaging

arXiv:2506. 08297v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Attention is the critical component of a transformer.

arXiv AI
Jul 17

VideoSEMA: a scalable and efficient Mamba-like attention for video understanding

arXiv:2607. 14711v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present for video understanding (classification) a split space-time attention model, VideoSEMA, consisting of a scalable and efficient Mamba-like attention (SEMA) block in space and a softmax temporal attention in time.

By Nhat Thanh Tran, Fanghui Xue andShuai Zhang, Jiancheng Lyu, Yunling Zheng, Yingyong Qi, Jack Xin
arXiv AI
Jun 16

Token Reduction Should Go Beyond Efficiency in Generative Models -- From Vision, Language to Multimodality

arXiv:2505. 18227v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In Transformer architectures, tokens\textemdash discrete units derived from raw data\textemdash are formed by segmenting inputs into fixed-length chunks.

By Zhenglun Kong, Yize Li, Fanhu Zeng, Lei Xin, Shvat Messica, Xue Lin, Pu Zhao, Manolis Kellis, Hao Tang, Marinka Zitnik
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 23

Shallow to Deep: Aligning Token Pruning with Stage-wise Roles in LVLMs

The paper introduces STD, a hierarchical token pruning framework for Large Vision‑Language Models that aligns pruning strategies with the functional roles of different network stages. By using high‑frequency spectral analysis in shallow layers, Gaussian‑smoothed attention in intermediate layers, and a stability‑adaptive trigger in deep layers, STD preserves essential visual information while aggressively reducing token counts. Experiments demonstrate that STD outperforms existing pruning methods, achieving up to 94.4% token reduction and a 3.9× speed‑up on LLaVA‑NeXT‑7B.

By Shuo Zhang, Jintao Tong, Yixiong Zou, Yuhua Li, Ruixuan Li