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arxiv: 2605.18041 · v1 · pith:TPLPIKCZnew · submitted 2026-05-18 · 💻 cs.CV

OmniSelect: Dynamic Modality-Aware Token Compression for Efficient Omni-modal Large Language Models

Pith reviewed 2026-05-20 11:40 UTC · model grok-4.3

classification 💻 cs.CV
keywords token compressionomni-modal LLMsmodality-aware pruningtraining-freeaudio-video understandingdynamic strategy selectionmultimodal token reductioncross-modal relevance
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The pith

OmniSelect dynamically selects among three token pruning regimes based on cross-modal relevance to compress inputs in omni-modal models without any training.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper establishes a training-free approach to token compression for models that jointly process audio and video. It first runs a lightweight model to score relevance between modalities for each query, then routes the input to Audio-Centric, Video-Centric, or Uniform pruning. Within each chosen regime it further prunes tokens inside temporal groups by allocating different ratios to keep the most informative ones. A reader would care because long multimodal sequences dominate compute cost in these models, and fixed pruning strategies waste resources on whichever modality happens to be less relevant to the current question. The method therefore claims to cut tokens while preserving downstream accuracy by adapting the compression rule to the input itself.

Core claim

OmniSelect is a modality-adaptive token pruning framework that leverages cross-modal relevance scores from a lightweight AudioCLIP model to categorize each multimodal input into one of three regimes—Audio-Centric, Video-Centric, or Uniform pruning—and then performs fine-grained token selection inside temporal groups by adaptively assigning pruning ratios to retain informative tokens across both modalities.

What carries the argument

The dynamic regime selector that maps relevance scores to one of three pruning strategies followed by adaptive ratio allocation inside temporal groups.

If this is right

  • Multimodal token sequences can be shortened substantially while task performance remains comparable to the uncompressed model.
  • The entire compression process runs without any extra training or fine-tuning of the target omni-modal model.
  • One-size-fits-all pruning is avoided because the strategy changes with the query-dependent importance of each modality.
  • Fine-grained allocation inside temporal groups keeps the most useful tokens rather than discarding them uniformly.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same relevance-driven routing idea could be tested on other modality pairs such as text-image or video-text.
  • If the three-regime categorization proves stable, it could support automatic scaling of context length for longer real-time streams.
  • A direct comparison against learned pruning policies on the same benchmarks would show whether the training-free route is competitive on efficiency.

Load-bearing premise

Relevance scores from the lightweight AudioCLIP model are accurate enough to pick the pruning regime that actually preserves task accuracy for that specific input.

What would settle it

A set of audio-video queries where the chosen regime produces measurably lower accuracy than either no pruning or a fixed uniform baseline on the same downstream task.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.18041 by Jianxin Zhang, Juntao Li, Le Li, Morunliu Yang, Peifeng Li, Ruotao Xu, Siwei Feng, Yihang Lou, Yue Wang.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: (a): OmniSelect prunes fewer tokens in key frames and more in less important ones, while OmniZip prunes uniformly. (b): OmniSelect retains 94% to 99% of the original full-token accuracy (Qwen2.5-Omni-3B, Worldsense, 128 Frames) and achieves competitive performance among existing training-free approaches.(c): OmniSelect achieves an inference speedup of 1.19× to 1.33×. Abstract Omnimodal large language model… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Illustration of modality importance variation across [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Illustration of different token compression strate [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_3.png] view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Overview pipeline of our method OmniSelect. The overall process is divided into two stages: (1) Modality-Aware Dynamic Ratio Allocation that allocates the pruning ratio for each temporal group while ensuring the total pruning ratio meets the expected value; (2) Temporal Group Pruning Pipeline (TGP2 ) that prunes audio and video tokens based on attention score and cosine similarity score within each tempora… view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Qwen-2.5-Omni-3B performance under varying frame budgets at 30% and 45% pruning. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Performance under different frame budgets and different thresholds. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Comparison of different token compression strate [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_7.png] view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: Left: The comparison of Bottom-K Selection strategy and Top-K Selection strategy. Right: Prompt Template for multiple-choice QA evaluations. B Why Bottom-K Strategy Work for Video Token Pruning? We adopt video embeddings instead of attention weights for two main reasons. First, computing full attention maps over a large number of vision tokens incurs prohibitive computational overhead, whereas embedding-ba… view at source ↗
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: Qwen-2.5-Omni-3B and Qwen-2.5-Omni-7B performance on WorldSense ( [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_9.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 10. Figure 10: Qwen-2.5-Omni-7B performance under varying frame budgets at 30% and 45% pruning. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p016_10.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 11. Figure 11: A Video-Centric pruning case, including pruning results, answers, and per-temporal-group [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p017_11.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 12. Figure 12: A Audio-Centric pruning case, including pruning results, answers, and per-temporal-group [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_12.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 13. Figure 13: A Video-Centric pruning case that OmniSelect’s answer corrects but Full Tokens does not, [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_13.png] view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Omnimodal large language models (OmniLLMs) have recently gained increasing attention for unified audio-video understanding. However, processing long multimodal token sequences introduces substantial computational overhead, making efficient token compression crucial. Existing methods typically rely on fixed, modality-specific guidance, which fails to account for the varying importance of modalities across different queries. To address this limitation, we propose $\textbf{OmniSelect}$, a training-free, modality-adaptive token pruning framework that dynamically selects appropriate compression strategies for multimodal inputs. Specifically, we leverage a lightweight AudioCLIP model to estimate cross-modal relevance and categorize each input into three pruning regimes: Audio-Centric, Video-Centric, and Uniform pruning. Based on these relevance scores, OmniSelect further performs fine-grained token pruning within each temporal group, adaptively allocating pruning ratios to preserve informative tokens across modalities. By explicitly modeling modality preference and enabling dynamic strategy selection, OmniSelect effectively avoids the pitfalls of one-size-fits-all compression. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our method achieves efficient multimodal token reduction while maintaining strong performance, without requiring any additional training.

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Referee Report

2 major / 1 minor

Summary. The paper proposes OmniSelect, a training-free token compression framework for omni-modal LLMs that uses a lightweight AudioCLIP model to compute cross-modal relevance scores and dynamically assign each input to one of three pruning regimes (Audio-Centric, Video-Centric, or Uniform). Within each temporal group the method then applies adaptive per-modality pruning ratios intended to retain informative tokens. The central claim is that this modality-aware selection achieves substantial token reduction while preserving downstream task performance without any additional training.

Significance. If the AudioCLIP-derived regime selection reliably preserves accuracy, the approach would provide a practical, zero-shot efficiency technique for long-context omni-modal models. The training-free design and explicit handling of modality preference are clear strengths that distinguish it from fixed-ratio baselines.

major comments (2)
  1. The central claim rests on the unvalidated assumption that AudioCLIP relevance scores correctly assign inputs to Audio-Centric / Video-Centric / Uniform regimes whose pruning ratios preserve the target OmniLLM’s task accuracy. Because AudioCLIP is a lightweight audio-text model with no task-specific calibration or comparison to the OmniLLM’s attention/gradient signals, mis-categorization would apply the wrong per-modality ratios; the manuscript provides no empirical check of this mapping against downstream accuracy.
  2. Abstract and experimental section: the claim that “extensive experiments demonstrate … maintaining strong performance” is stated without any reported metrics, baselines, datasets, or ablation tables in the supplied text, preventing evaluation of whether the dynamic regime selection actually outperforms fixed pruning under realistic query distributions.
minor comments (1)
  1. Notation for relevance-score thresholds and temporal-group boundaries should be defined explicitly with equations rather than prose descriptions.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

2 responses · 0 unresolved

We thank the referee for the constructive feedback on our work. We address each major comment below with clarifications and proposed revisions where appropriate.

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  1. Referee: The central claim rests on the unvalidated assumption that AudioCLIP relevance scores correctly assign inputs to Audio-Centric / Video-Centric / Uniform regimes whose pruning ratios preserve the target OmniLLM’s task accuracy. Because AudioCLIP is a lightweight audio-text model with no task-specific calibration or comparison to the OmniLLM’s attention/gradient signals, mis-categorization would apply the wrong per-modality ratios; the manuscript provides no empirical check of this mapping against downstream accuracy.

    Authors: We agree that a direct empirical mapping between AudioCLIP scores and the target OmniLLM’s internal signals (attention or gradients) is not provided in the current manuscript. The design intentionally uses AudioCLIP as a lightweight, training-free proxy for cross-modal relevance to enable zero-shot regime selection. Our experiments validate the overall approach by showing that the dynamic regime selection consistently outperforms fixed-ratio baselines on downstream tasks under varied query distributions, which provides indirect support for the quality of the assignments. To directly address the concern, we will add an ablation analysis in the revised version that correlates selected regimes with per-example accuracy preservation. revision: yes

  2. Referee: Abstract and experimental section: the claim that “extensive experiments demonstrate … maintaining strong performance” is stated without any reported metrics, baselines, datasets, or ablation tables in the supplied text, preventing evaluation of whether the dynamic regime selection actually outperforms fixed pruning under realistic query distributions.

    Authors: We apologize that the experimental details may not have been fully visible in the excerpt provided for review. The complete manuscript includes a dedicated Experiments section reporting results on standard omni-modal benchmarks (e.g., audio-visual QA and captioning datasets), with quantitative comparisons against fixed pruning baselines, other compression methods, and ablations on regime selection. These show substantial token reduction (typically 40-60%) with minimal accuracy degradation. We will revise the abstract and main text to explicitly reference the key tables and metrics for clarity. revision: partial

Circularity Check

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No circularity in the OmniSelect heuristic pipeline

full rationale

The paper describes a training-free heuristic method that invokes an external AudioCLIP model to produce cross-modal relevance scores, uses those scores to assign each input to one of three fixed pruning regimes (Audio-Centric, Video-Centric, Uniform), and then applies rule-based token allocation inside temporal groups. No equations, fitted parameters, or derivations are presented in which any claimed output is defined in terms of itself or reduces by construction to the inputs. The central logic rests on independent external components and explicit rules rather than self-referential definitions, fitted-input predictions, or load-bearing self-citations. This is a standard heuristic pipeline whose correctness can be evaluated against external benchmarks without internal tautology.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 1 axioms · 0 invented entities

The method rests on the unverified premise that AudioCLIP relevance scores reliably indicate which modality should receive heavier pruning; no free parameters or new entities are introduced in the abstract description.

axioms (1)
  • domain assumption AudioCLIP cross-modal relevance scores can be used to categorize inputs into effective Audio-Centric, Video-Centric, or Uniform pruning regimes
    This categorization step is the decision point that determines all subsequent pruning ratios.

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