通过语义引导的进化标注,高效压缩视觉令牌,提升多模态大模型推理速度。
EvoComp: Learning Visual Token Compression for Multimodal Large Language Models via Semantic-Guided Evolutionary Labeling

- 用轻量编码器结合图文上下文,挑选关键视觉令牌。
- 3倍压缩下保留99.3%准确率,移动端提速1.6倍。
- 适合追求高效推理的多模态模型部署场景。
近期多模态大语言模型在视觉-语言理解任务中表现优异,但高分辨率或多图像场景下的大量视觉令牌常导致推理效率低下。为此,我们提出EvoComp,一种视觉令牌压缩框架,显著减少令牌数量的同时保持任务精度。EvoComp采用基于Transformer的轻量级编码器压缩器,通过联合考虑视觉与文本上下文,选择最具信息量且非冗余的视觉令牌。核心挑战在于为压缩器提供有效监督。为此,我们设计了一种进化标注策略,搜索使MLLM输出损失最小的令牌子集,并通过基于词汇的分组强制语义多样性。此外,我们使用融合GHM损失(缓解类别与难度不平衡)和余弦相似度正则化(促进保留与丢弃令牌间的语义分离)的定制损失函数训练压缩器。在多个视觉-语言基准上的实验表明,EvoComp优于基于注意力或相似性启发式的现有方法。值得注意的是,在3倍令牌压缩下仍保持99.3%的原始准确率,并在移动设备上实现最高1.6倍的加速。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Recent Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated strong performance on vision-language understanding tasks, yet their inference efficiency is often hampered by the large number of visual tokens, particularly in high-resolution or multi-image scenarios. To address this issue, we propose EvoComp, a visual token compression framework that significantly reduces token count while preserving task accuracy. EvoComp introduces a lightweight encoder-only transformer-based compressor that selects the most informative and non-redundant visual tokens by jointly considering visual and textual contexts. A core challenge lies in providing effective supervision for training the compressor. To this end, we design an evolutionary labeling strategy that searches for token subsets minimizing the MLLM's output loss, while enforcing semantic diversity through vocabulary-based token grouping. We further train the compressor using a tailored loss function combining the GHM loss to mitigate class and difficulty imbalance, and a cosine similarity regularization to encourage semantic separation between retained and discarded tokens. Extensive experiments across multiple vision-language benchmarks show that EvoComp outperforms existing methods based on attention or similarity heuristics. Notably, it retains 99.3% of the original accuracy under 3x token compression and delivers up to 1.6x speedup on mobile devices.
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