arxivcs.CV2026-07-15
Attention-Free and Lightweight Token Reduction for Efficient Vision-Language Models
Xuanyi Hao, Zuoyuan Zhang, Zhibo Wang, Xiaoyi Pang, Jiahui Hu, Jiacheng Du, et al.
Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have achieved strong performance in multimodal understanding, yet remain challenging to deploy on resource-constrained edge devices due to the substantial computational overhead of processing numerous visual tokens. Token reduction is a promising dir…