arxivcs.CVcs.AI2026-07-02
Combating Textual Noise and Redundancy: Entropy-Aware Dense Visual Token Pruning
Xuehui Wang, Xuankun Yang, Wei Shen
Visual token pruning is a crucial strategy for accelerating VLMs by compressing redundant image patches, yet existing methods often fail to preserve critical cues under dense instructions and fine-grained queries. In this paper, we investigate this failure and identify two underl…