arXiv:2608. 19285v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent Visual-Language Models (VLMs) have enhanced the capabilities of pre-trained LLMs by adding vision tokens alongside text, with approaches like LLaVA showing impressive results.
By Baptiste Rossigneux, Inna Kucher, Vincent Lorrain, Emmanuel Casseau
arXiv:2609.24485v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Visual token pruning is a promising approach to reducing the inference cost of large vision-language models (LVLMs), yet aggressive token reduction oft...
By Guangchuan Lv, Dianxing Shi, Dingjie FU
Visual token pruning is a promising approach to reducing the inference cost of large vision-language models (LVLMs), yet aggressive token reduction often causes substantial performance degradation. We...
SinkPruner is a training‑free framework that prunes visual tokens for multimodal large language models by first removing high‑norm redundant tokens with a visual sanitizer and then selectively keeping tokens that align with the text query using a text‑guided pruner. The coarse‑to‑fine design reduces attention sink and dispersion, enabling an 89% token reduction while preserving 96.5% of LLaVA‑1.5’s performance and 91.8% of Qwen2.5‑VL’s performance across twelve image‑language and four video‑language benchmarks. The visual sanitizer also improves existing pruning methods, showing strong transferability.
By Shiyu Li, Zi-Yuan Hu, Shijia Huang, Yanyang Li, Yiwu Zhong, Liwei Wang
arXiv:2609.10346v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) process hundreds or thousands of visual tokens per image, incurring prohibitive inference costs. While existin...
By Haiji Liang, Pengfei Zhou, Zhenglin Wan, Wei Wang, Yang You, Wangbo Zhao
arXiv:2604. 11530v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have revolutionized multi-modal learning by jointly processing visual and textual information.
By Yvon Apedo, Martyna Poreba, Michal Szczepanski, Samia Bouchafa