arxivcs.CV2026-06-30
REDI: Corpus Aware Patch Ranking for DINOv3 Token Reduction
Chanjong Im, Sebastian Diem, Thomas Mandl
Most token reduction methods for Vision Transformers seek favorable tradeoffs between accuracy and efficiency by pruning, merging, or pooling patch tokens. REDI (Relevance for DINOv3 Token Reduction) studies this question through a controlled supervised reference: how should a fi…