Adaptive visual memory cuts multimodal reasoning costs without losing accuracy

ViMoD maintains a compact visual context and selectively recalls fine-grained evidence as reasoning needs evolve, outperforming one-shot compression baselines at a 20% token budget.

Chinese Tech
Yicheng Xue · Han Wu · Jufeng Yang · Minjing Dong · Xinghao Chen · Hanting Chen · +1 more

City University of Hong Kong · Zhejiang University · Peking University · Nankai University · Huawei Technologies

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The authors introduce ViMoD, a framework that couples learned visual memory with adaptive access to fine-grained tokens, targeting a low average active visual token budget during decoding.

The authors designed ViMoD, comprising two components.

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Adaptive selection of fine-grained visual tokens during decoding improves multimodal reasoning accuracy and efficiency compared with one-shot compression.

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