arXiv AI
Aug 11

Not All Visual Tokens Are Equally Safe to Remove:Consequence-Sensitive Visual Token Compression

arXiv:2608. 09176v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Visual token compression for vision--language models (VLMs) has largely relied on criteria such as attention, redundancy, and uncertainty to maximize average accuracy under a fixed compute budget, implicitly assuming that all errors carry equal cost.

By Jingbo Wen, Liang He, Mingyu Cao, Haoyu Wang, Minxuan Hu, Kangning Cui, Xilu Wang