arXiv Computer Vision By Pengcheng Zheng, Chaoning Zhang, Jiaxin Yan, Sihan Cao, Jianwei Zhang, Xudong Wang, Jiaquan Zhang, Jewon Lee, Tae-Ho Kim, Yang Yang, Heng Tao Shen

MoR-MLLM: Mixture of Recursions for Efficient Multimodal Large Language Models

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MoR-MLLM introduces a computation-sparse multimodal large language model that uses adaptive per-token recursion to dynamically adjust recursive depth. This approach allocates more computation to visually or linguistically challenging tokens while skipping redundant operations for simpler ones. A three-stage MoR-Tuning strategy and entropy-regularized loss stabilize training, enabling the model to reduce training memory and computation complexity while maintaining high performance on vision-language tasks.

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