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New PACE framework compresses native MLLMs with over 2x FLOPs reduction

Researchers have developed PACE, a novel compression framework specifically designed for native multimodal large language models (native MLLMs). Unlike previous methods that targeted ViT-based models, PACE addresses the unique challenges of ViT-free native MLLMs, which directly tokenize pixel patches and can suffer from significant visual token redundancy. PACE analyzes token discriminability and cross-dimensional redundancy to optimize compression, achieving near-lossless performance with only 25%-50% visual token retention. This approach results in over a 2x reduction in FLOPs, enhancing efficiency without compromising accuracy. AI

IMPACT This research could significantly improve the efficiency of native multimodal LLMs, enabling wider deployment and faster inference.

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Lei Tian, Chunzheng Zhu, Kai Wu, Yifan Zhang, Haihua Yang ·

    PACE: Pareto-Adaptive Compression for Efficient Native MLLMs

    arXiv:2610.24005v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Native multimodal large language models (native MLLMs) jointly encode visual and linguistic sequences within a unified autoregressive Transformer, emerging as a promising paradigm for multimodal understanding. Unlike conve…