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Main Authors: Liu, Xuyang, Wang, Ziming, Chen, Junjie, Han, Yuhang, Wang, Yingyao, Yuan, Jiale, Song, Jun, Huang, Siteng, Chen, Honggang
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.05179
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author Liu, Xuyang
Wang, Ziming
Chen, Junjie
Han, Yuhang
Wang, Yingyao
Yuan, Jiale
Song, Jun
Huang, Siteng
Chen, Honggang
author_facet Liu, Xuyang
Wang, Ziming
Chen, Junjie
Han, Yuhang
Wang, Yingyao
Yuan, Jiale
Song, Jun
Huang, Siteng
Chen, Honggang
contents Large vision-language models (LVLMs) excel at visual understanding, but face efficiency challenges due to quadratic complexity in processing long multi-modal contexts. While token compression can reduce computational costs, existing approaches are designed for single-view LVLMs and fail to consider the unique multi-view characteristics of high-resolution LVLMs with dynamic cropping. Existing methods treat all tokens uniformly, but our analysis reveals that global thumbnails can naturally guide the compression of local crops by providing holistic context for informativeness evaluation. In this paper, we first analyze dynamic cropping strategy, revealing both the complementary nature between thumbnails and crops, and the distinctive characteristics across different crops. Based on our observations, we propose ``Global Compression Commander'' (\textit{i.e.}, \textbf{GlobalCom$^2$}), a novel plug-and-play token compression framework for HR-LVLMs. GlobalCom$^2$ leverages thumbnail as the ``commander'' to guide the compression of local crops, adaptively preserving informative details while eliminating redundancy. Extensive experiments show that GlobalCom$^2$ maintains over \textbf{90\%} performance while compressing \textbf{90\%} visual tokens, reducing FLOPs and peak memory to \textbf{9.1\%} and \textbf{60\%}.
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spellingShingle Global Compression Commander: Plug-and-Play Inference Acceleration for High-Resolution Large Vision-Language Models
Liu, Xuyang
Wang, Ziming
Chen, Junjie
Han, Yuhang
Wang, Yingyao
Yuan, Jiale
Song, Jun
Huang, Siteng
Chen, Honggang
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Large vision-language models (LVLMs) excel at visual understanding, but face efficiency challenges due to quadratic complexity in processing long multi-modal contexts. While token compression can reduce computational costs, existing approaches are designed for single-view LVLMs and fail to consider the unique multi-view characteristics of high-resolution LVLMs with dynamic cropping. Existing methods treat all tokens uniformly, but our analysis reveals that global thumbnails can naturally guide the compression of local crops by providing holistic context for informativeness evaluation. In this paper, we first analyze dynamic cropping strategy, revealing both the complementary nature between thumbnails and crops, and the distinctive characteristics across different crops. Based on our observations, we propose ``Global Compression Commander'' (\textit{i.e.}, \textbf{GlobalCom$^2$}), a novel plug-and-play token compression framework for HR-LVLMs. GlobalCom$^2$ leverages thumbnail as the ``commander'' to guide the compression of local crops, adaptively preserving informative details while eliminating redundancy. Extensive experiments show that GlobalCom$^2$ maintains over \textbf{90\%} performance while compressing \textbf{90\%} visual tokens, reducing FLOPs and peak memory to \textbf{9.1\%} and \textbf{60\%}.
title Global Compression Commander: Plug-and-Play Inference Acceleration for High-Resolution Large Vision-Language Models
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.05179