arXiv:2607.16305cs.CVcs.AI2026-07

提出LookME,让视觉语言模型用查找方式高效增强多模态嵌入。

LookME: Lookup-Based Multimodal Embeddings for Layer Injection in Vision-Language Models

论文配图:LookME: Lookup-Based Multimodal Embeddings for Layer Injection in Vision-Language Models
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  • 分层设计两阶段查找机制,从场景到物体细粒度检索
  • 支持分区存储与按需加载,显著降低内存占用和延迟
  • 适用于资源受限环境,尤其适合需要高效推理的多模态任务

视觉语言模型(VLMs)在多模态理解上取得显著进展。然而,扩展密集或稀疏的专家混合(MoE)模型会因全量加载的高内存消耗与按需加载的高延迟,限制其在资源受限环境中的部署。近期的逐层嵌入(PLE)架构通过将大型外部嵌入表存于只读内存(ROM)并轻量查找来增强标记表示,缓解了该问题。但现有PLE方法主要针对文本嵌入,因基于ID的检索便捷,难以有效应用于包含丰富视觉信息的VLM多模态嵌入。本文提出LookME,首个支持多模态嵌入查找增强的框架,同时支持嵌入表分区存储与按需加载。为高效从大规模嵌入表中查找任意连续多模态嵌入,我们设计了从场景级到场景内基础单元级的层级两级查找策略。此外,结合稀疏注入策略,自适应优先关键嵌入,减少冗余,促进相邻层间嵌入表复用,优化了效率、模型大小与性能之间的权衡。在多个视觉基准上的实验表明,LookME优于仅文本的PLE方法,验证了基于查找的多模态嵌入增强的有效性。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have achieved strong progress in multimodal understanding. However, scaling dense or sparse Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models to improve performance limits deployment in resource-constrained environments due to the trade-off between high memory usage from full loading and increased latency from on-demand loading. Recently, the Per-Layer Embedding (PLE) architecture addresses this by scaling models with large external embedding tables stored in read-only memory (ROM) and performing lightweight lookup to retrieve relevant embeddings to enhance token representations. Nevertheless, existing PLE-style methods are primarily designed for text embeddings due to the convenience of ID-based retrieval, limiting their effectiveness in VLMs where multimodal embeddings contain richer information for visual tasks. In this paper, we propose LookME, the first framework that enables lookup-based enhancement for multimodal embeddings in VLMs while supporting partitioned storage and on-demand loading. To efficiently lookup arbitrary continuous multimodal embeddings from large-scale embedding tables, we propose a hierarchical two-level lookup method employing a coarse-to-fine strategy that performs lookups from the scene-level to the intra-scene primitive-level. Furthermore, we integrate the lookup method with a sparse injection strategy, which adaptively prioritizes critical embeddings over voluminous multimodal embeddings within layers, and facilitates embedding table reuse across neighboring layers, improving the trade-off among efficiency, model size, and performance. Experiments on multiple visual benchmarks show that LookME outperforms text-only PLE-style methods, validating the effectiveness of lookup-based multimodal embedding enhancement.

多模态嵌入模型压缩高效推理视觉语言模型

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