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SVD-Prune: Spectral Vision Token Pruning under Extreme Compression
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摘要
Vision-Language Models (VLMs) and Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models process hundreds of visual tokens, making visual representations a major computational bottleneck. We argue that visual token pruning should be formulated not as identifying individually important tokens, but as preserving the dominant low-rank spectral structure of the visual representation. Based on this formulation, we introduce SVD-Prune, a training-free framework that leverages Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) and statistical leverage scores for globally informed token selection. SVD-Prune is architecture-agnostic and can be applied at different stages of the multimodal pipeline, including encoder-side, decoder-side, and hybrid configurations Extensive experiments across VLM and VLA benchmarks demonstrate strong robustness under extreme compression. SVD-Prune reduces the visual token. SVD-Prune cuts the visual token budget by up to 99.3%, while, at a 16-token budget, encoder-side pruning lowers inference FLOPs by 82.4% and achieves a 4.18x end-to-end speedup, including pruning overhead.
作者备注：Accepted at WACV 2027. Code available at https://github.com/anoncvlab/svdPrune
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SVD-Prune: Spectral Vision Token Pruning under Extreme Compression
Vision-Language Models (VLMs) and Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models process hundreds of visual tokens, making visual representations a major computational bottleneck. We argue that visual token pruning should be formulated not as identifying individually important tokens, but as preserving the dominant low-rank spectral structure of the visual representation. Based on this formulation, we introduce SVD-Prune, a training-free framework that leverages Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) and statistical leverage scores for globally informed token selection. SVD-Prune is architecture-agnostic and can be applied at different stages of the multimodal pipeline, including encoder-side, decoder-side, and hybrid configurations Extensive experiments across VLM and VLA benchmarks demonstrate strong robustness under extreme compression. SVD-Prune reduces the visual token. SVD-Prune cuts the visual token budget by up to 99.3%, while, at a 16-token budget, encoder-side pruning lowers inference FLOPs by 82.4% and achieves a 4.18x end-to-end speedup, including pruning overhead.
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