Training-free vision token compression method tailored for linear attention architectures

V-CoLA preserves 99.5% of baseline performance with 50% of vision tokens and achieves up to 6.15x prefill speedup on hybrid vision-language models.

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Hao Jiang · Yiru Mao · Tianpeng Bu · Hao Zhou · Hongtao Duan · Wang Jing · +6 more

Alibaba Cloud Computing, Alibaba Group

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V-CoLA compresses vision tokens in linear-attention VLMs, retaining 99.5% performance with 50% tokens and achieving 1.86-6.15x speedup.

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