arxivcs.CV2026-07-14
VisCo: Leveraging Large Language Models as Intrinsic Encoders for Visual Token Compression
Yupeng Zheng, Kai Zou, Bin Liu, Nenghai Yu
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…