arxivcs.CVcs.AI2026-07-06
TORINO: Token Reduction via Interpretable Concept Overlap in Vision-Language Models
Riccardo Renzulli, Gabriele Spadaro, Shruthi Gowda, Alaa Eddine Mazouz, Van-Tam Nguyen
Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities across different tasks, but their computational cost is dominated by the large number of visual tokens fed to the language model. Existing token reduction methods rely on attention-based scores or pairwise si…