arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 31

Visual Token Coding for Video Multimodal Large Language Models

The paper introduces Visual Token Coding (VTC), a token compression method for video multimodal large language models that mimics classical video coding by predicting I/P frames and measuring residuals to reduce token redundancy. VTC is extended with dynamic features—Dynamic Resolution Input, Dynamic Token Allocation, and Spatial Coverage Top‑K—forming VTC_Dy, which can be applied to existing MLLMs without additional tuning. Experiments on three MLLMs and multiple video benchmarks show that VTC_Dy retains over 100% of average performance with a 50% token budget and 97.8% with a 25% budget, while the code is publicly available.

By Chenxin Fang, Tao Chen, JunChao You, Jun Peng, Yiyi Zhou, Rongrong Ji
arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 22

Cache Locally, Recompute Selectively for Streaming Video Understanding

The paper introduces FrameBlend, a plug‑and‑play technique for streaming video understanding that selectively recomputes key‑value (KV) caches at query time. By re‑prefilling only query‑relevant video tokens, FrameBlend allows shorter attention windows during idle prefill, cutting prefill cost while boosting accuracy. Experiments on three SVU frameworks and five benchmarks show up to 3.9‑point accuracy gains and significant reductions in FLOPs and processing time.

By Junhyeok Lee, Sangyoon Lee, Jaeho Lee
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 31

Token-Budget Distillation: Transferring Full-Token Semantics to Compressed Video Vision-Language Models

Token-Budget Distillation (TBD) is a parameter‑efficient fine‑tuning framework that adapts video vision‑language models to a fixed token budget. It freezes the pretrained backbone, updates only LoRA adapters, and incorporates FlashVID visual token compression. TBD uses a dual‑path teacher‑student design with full‑token supervision and compressed student optimization, enabling the student to recover full‑token semantics while remaining efficient under aggressive token reduction.

By Xiaoyang Guo, Guoping Luo, Jusheng Zhang, Keze Wang, Wenhao Wang