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ET-Prune framework optimizes MLLM inference by dynamically pruning visual tokens

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Researchers have developed ET-Prune, a novel framework designed to optimize the inference costs of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) by dynamically pruning visual tokens. Unlike fixed pruning ratios, ET-Prune adapts to text-rich inputs by casting pruning as evidence allocation, identifying and safeguarding crucial information like small numbers or labels specified by a query. This method converts evidence uncertainty and density into a sample-specific token budget, leading to significant improvements in quality-cost trade-offs. In evaluations on OCRBench-v2 and MMBench v1.1, ET-Prune achieved competitive or leading results among pruned methods while retaining approximately half of the visual tokens. AI

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ET-Prune framework optimizes MLLM inference by dynamically pruning visual tokens

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Zizhong Ding, Junxian Li, Kai Liu, Shaoqiu Zhang, Xiao Xiao, Linghe Kong, Yulun Zhang ·

    ET-Prune: Evidence-Aware Dynamic Budgeting for Visual Token Pruning in Text-Rich MLLMs

    arXiv:2608.01979v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Visual token pruning reduces the inference cost of multimodal large language models, but a fixed token ratio is poorly matched to text-rich inputs. In OCR-centric tasks, decisive evidence can be a small number, label, or field who…

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