New methods slash OmniLLM token costs, boosting efficiency and accuracy · 9 sources tracked
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Researchers have developed several novel methods for compressing token sequences in omnimodal large language models (OmniLLMs) to reduce memory and inference costs. These approaches, including OmniDelta, OmniScope, Progressive Cramming, PCA, and ReMo, focus on intelligently allocating and pruning tokens across modalities like audio, video, and text. By decoupling modality relevance, leveraging query similarity, and identifying redundant or out-of-distribution tokens, these techniques aim to maintain or even improve accuracy while significantly decreasing computational overhead. Experiments show substantial reductions in GPU memory and increases in inference speed, establishing new efficiency frontiers for OmniLLMs.
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These compression techniques are crucial for making omnimodal LLMs more practical and accessible by reducing their computational demands.
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Multiple research papers introducing novel methods for token compression in omnimodal large language models.
arXiv:2607.25669v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Emerging Omni-modal Large Language Models (OmniLLMs) enable unified understanding of text, audio, and video, but their long audio-video token sequences introduce substantial memory and inference costs. Existing compression methods m…
arXiv:2607.22716v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In this paper, we show for the first time that visual token pruning enhances the robustness of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), mitigating vulnerabilities such as jailbreak attacks and hallucinations. Given that vision an…
Existing token compression methods for omnimodal large language models typically rely on one modality to determine what to retain in the other. We show that this assumption often breaks down: for the same query, audio and video relevance often peaks at different moments. This cro…
Emerging Omni-modal Large Language Models (OmniLLMs) enable unified understanding of text, audio, and video, but their long audio-video token sequences introduce substantial memory and inference costs. Existing compression methods mainly focus on selecting important tokens under …
arXiv:2607.21231v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Token cramming compresses sequences into learned embeddings with near-perfect reconstruction, but fixed token budgets and 99\% accuracy thresholds leave it unclear whether residual errors reflect optimization failures or fundamental…
Vision-language models (VLMs) process large numbers of visual tokens, resulting in substantial inference latency and memory overhead. This has motivated extensive research on visual token compression. While training-free strategies rely on heuristic metrics and suffer significant…
arXiv:2607.23193v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing token compression methods for omnimodal large language models typically rely on one modality to determine what to retain in the other. We show that this assumption often breaks down: for the same query, audio and video rele…
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TIER_1English(EN)·Zihan Song, Shuo Ye, Bo Zhao, Ruixin Zhang, Jiayu Zhang, Shouhong Ding, Zitong Yu·
arXiv:2607.22726v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Despite advances in Video Large Language Models (VLLMs) that have displayed promising outcomes in video understanding, the redundancy in the long-duration frames remains a hindrance to efficient reasoning. This paper introduces a tr…
arXiv:2607.21179v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The goal of this paper is to reduce the input token cost of Omni-modal large language models (Omni-LLMs) at inference time. Omni-LLMs reason jointly over audio, video and text, but the cost of the three streams is highly unbalanced:…
