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VisionZip: Longer is Better but Not Necessary in Vision Language Models
arXiv β CS AI|Senqiao Yang, Yukang Chen, Zhuotao Tian, Chengyao Wang, Jingyao Li, Bei Yu, Jiaya Jia|
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Researchers introduce VisionZip, a new method that reduces redundant visual tokens in vision-language models while maintaining performance. The technique improves inference speed by 8x and achieves 5% better performance than existing methods by selecting only informative tokens for processing.
Key Takeaways
- βVisionZip addresses significant redundancy in visual tokens generated by popular vision encoders like CLIP and SigLIP
- βThe method achieves at least 5% performance gains across nearly all tested settings compared to previous state-of-the-art
- βInference speed improvements include 8x faster prefilling time and enables LLaVA-Next 13B to run faster than 7B model
- βThe approach works well for both image and video understanding tasks as well as multi-turn dialogues
- βResearch suggests focusing on better visual feature extraction rather than simply increasing token length
#vision-language-models#efficiency#computer-vision#machine-learning#optimization#inference-speed#visionzip#llava#clip#siglip
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