通过锚点扩展保留关键视觉信息,实现高效多模态推理。
AnchorPrune: Relevance-Anchored Contextual Expansion for Visual Token Pruning

- 先构建查询相关性锚点,再自适应扩展互补上下文。
- 仅用160个视觉标记即保持97.6%的完整性能(2880个标记)。
- 无需训练或修改模型,适用于图像与视频任务。
大型视觉语言模型因高分辨率输入产生数千个视觉标记,导致推理成本高昂,其中许多标记对特定查询冗余。现有剪枝方法常结合查询相关性与标记多样性,但在激进压缩下二者可能冲突:相关性驱动选择可能过度集中于相关局部证据,而多样性驱动选择可能抑制必要标记或保留无关区域。我们提出AnchorPrune,一种无需训练的框架,首先构建受保护的相关性锚点,再以互补视觉上下文扩展。AnchorPrune基于相关性排序标记的新颖性分布自适应确定锚点大小,保留紧凑的查询关键证据,并将剩余预算通过重要性加权新颖性分配,以恢复相对于锚点的信息丰富、非冗余上下文。该有序设计防止上下文扩展覆盖关键查询线索,同时提升整体视觉覆盖。AnchorPrune轻量、架构感知,无需重训练或模型修改。在图像与视频视觉语言模型及基准测试中,其一致优于无训练基线,尤其在严重压缩下表现更优。在LLaVA-NeXT-7B上,仅使用160/2,880个视觉标记即保留97.6%的全标记性能。结果表明,相关性锚点上下文扩展是高效多模态推理的有效原则。代码见https://github.com/MULTI-cau/AnchorPrune。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Large vision-language models incur substantial inference costs because high-resolution inputs introduce thousands of visual tokens, many of which are redundant for a given query. Existing pruning methods often combine query relevance and token diversity, yet these objectives can conflict under aggressive compression: relevance-driven selection may overconcentrate the budget on correlated local evidence, while diversity-driven selection may suppress indispensable tokens or retain distinct but uninformative regions. We introduce AnchorPrune, a training-free framework that first constructs a protected relevance anchor and then expands it with complementary visual context. AnchorPrune adaptively determines the anchor size from the novelty profile of relevance-ranked tokens, preserving a compact set of query-critical evidence, and allocates the remaining budget through importance-weighted novelty to recover informative, non-redundant context relative to the anchor. This ordered design prevents contextual expansion from displacing indispensable query cues while improving overall visual coverage. AnchorPrune is lightweight, architecture-aware, and requires neither retraining nor model modification. Across image and video vision-language models and benchmarks, it consistently improves the accuracy-efficiency trade-off over training-free baselines, particularly under severe compression. On LLaVA-NeXT-7B, AnchorPrune preserves 97.6% of full-token performance using only 160 of 2,880 visual tokens. These results establish relevance-anchored contextual expansion as an effective principle for efficient multimodal inference. Code is available at https://github.com/MULTI-cau/AnchorPrune.
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