Sink-Token-aware Pruning (SToP) suppresses semantically uninformative sink tokens during visual token pruning in Video LLMs, boosting fine-grained performance even at 90% pruning rates across hallucination, reasoning, and MCQA benchmarks.
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HiDe is a training-free hierarchical decoupling method that separates key visual tokens from background interference in high-resolution MLLMs to achieve new state-of-the-art results on V*Bench, HRBench4K, and HRBench8K.
MLLMs know event timing during prefill via sparse Temporal Grounding Heads but lose it in autoregressive decoding; restricting visual context to the high-attention interval at inference time improves VTG performance on three benchmarks.
In LVLMs, attention can be replaced by random Gaussian weights with little or no performance loss, indicating that current models get lost in attention rather than efficiently using visual context.
A latent denoising objective with saliency-aware corruption and contrastive distillation improves visual alignment and corruption robustness in large multimodal models.
Centroid erasure shows language representations overshadow vision in multimodal models, and text-centroid contrastive decoding recovers substantial accuracy on visual reasoning tasks.
VLMs fail at counting because visual evidence degrades in later language layers, and a lightweight Modality Attention Share intervention can encourage better use of image information during answer generation.
Attention dispersion during extended reasoning impairs MLLM perception on images, and a training-free VRGA framework mitigates it by selecting and reweighting visual attention heads using an entropy-focus criterion.
EAGLE achieves up to 94.4% anomaly detection accuracy on MVTec-AD and 88.1% on VisA by guiding frozen MLLMs with expert-derived thresholds and confidence-aware attention without parameter updates.
VLMs show systematic drops in counting accuracy as visual and linguistic complexity rise, with modest gains from targeted attention reweighting in the decoder.
SSA-ME uses saliency-aware modeling to reduce visual neglect and semantic drift, achieving SOTA results on the MMEB benchmark for multimodal retrieval.
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Sink-Token-Aware Pruning for Fine-Grained Video Understanding in Efficient Video LLMs
Sink-Token-aware Pruning (SToP) suppresses semantically uninformative sink tokens during visual token pruning in Video LLMs, boosting fine-grained performance even at 90% pruning rates across hallucination, reasoning, and MCQA benchmarks.
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HiDe: Rethinking The Zoom-IN method in High Resolution MLLMs via Hierarchical Decoupling
HiDe is a training-free hierarchical decoupling method that separates key visual tokens from background interference in high-resolution MLLMs to achieve new state-of-the-art results on V*Bench, HRBench4K, and HRBench8K.
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MLLMs Know When Before Speaking: Revealing and Recovering Temporal Grounding via Attention Cues
MLLMs know event timing during prefill via sparse Temporal Grounding Heads but lose it in autoregressive decoding; restricting visual context to the high-attention interval at inference time improves VTG performance on three benchmarks.
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Large Vision-Language Models Get Lost in Attention
In LVLMs, attention can be replaced by random Gaussian weights with little or no performance loss, indicating that current models get lost in attention rather than efficiently using visual context.
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Latent Denoising Improves Visual Alignment in Large Multimodal Models
A latent denoising objective with saliency-aware corruption and contrastive distillation improves visual alignment and corruption robustness in large multimodal models.
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The Cost of Language: Centroid Erasure Exposes and Exploits Modal Competition in Multimodal Language Models
Centroid erasure shows language representations overshadow vision in multimodal models, and text-centroid contrastive decoding recovers substantial accuracy on visual reasoning tasks.
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Counting to Four is still a Chore for VLMs
VLMs fail at counting because visual evidence degrades in later language layers, and a lightweight Modality Attention Share intervention can encourage better use of image information during answer generation.
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Deeper Thought, Weaker Aim: Understanding and Mitigating Perceptual Impairment during Reasoning in Multimodal Large Language Models
Attention dispersion during extended reasoning impairs MLLM perception on images, and a training-free VRGA framework mitigates it by selecting and reweighting visual attention heads using an entropy-focus criterion.
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EAGLE: Expert-Augmented Attention Guidance for Tuning-Free Industrial Anomaly Detection in Multimodal Large Language Models
EAGLE achieves up to 94.4% anomaly detection accuracy on MVTec-AD and 88.1% on VisA by guiding frozen MLLMs with expert-derived thresholds and confidence-aware attention without parameter updates.
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Can Vision-Language Models Count? A Synthetic Benchmark and Analysis of Attention-Based Interventions
VLMs show systematic drops in counting accuracy as visual and linguistic complexity rise, with modest gains from targeted attention reweighting in the decoder.
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Combating Visual Neglect and Semantic Drift in Large Multimodal Models for Enhanced Cross-Modal Retrieval
SSA-ME uses saliency-aware modeling to reduce visual neglect and semantic drift, achieving SOTA results on the MMEB benchmark for multimodal retrieval.
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