arXiv:2607.27700cs.CV2026-07

提出先校准后推理的视觉令牌压缩方法,解决模型语义漂移问题。

Calibrate Before Reason: Robust Visual Token Reduction against Semantic Drift in VLMs

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  • 通过扰动鲁棒锚点与置信门控校准信号,提升压缩后表征的语义一致性。
  • 在保留96.4%原始性能的同时,剪枝94.4%视觉令牌,推理速度提升2.3倍。
  • 无需训练,适用于多种视觉语言模型,适合高效部署场景。

大型视觉语言模型(VLMs)因长视觉令牌序列导致推理开销巨大。现有令牌压缩方法仅通过剪枝或压缩冗余信息提升效率,未验证压缩后表征是否保持语义一致。将原N令牌序列映射至K令牌可能丢失、稀释或错配关键视觉线索,引发严重语义漂移,影响模型理解。本文首次提出‘先校准后推理’原则,设计无需训练的稳健框架CaRe,通过两个互补模块实现:1)扰动鲁棒校准锚点,识别在多方向扰动下模型响应稳定的锚点;2)置信门控令牌校准,从未选令牌中提取可靠信号并注入锚点。跨多种架构与基准的评估表明,CaRe优于当前最优基线。在剪枝94.4%视觉令牌的同时,保留96.4%原始性能,端到端推理速度相较未剪枝模型提升最高达2.30倍。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) suffer from prohibitive inference overhead due to long sequences of visual tokens. However, existing visual token reduction methods mainly improve efficiency by pruning or compressing redundant tokens without examining whether the resulting representation remains semantically consistent with the original representation. Mapping the original N-token visual sequence to K tokens may discard, dilute, or misassign critical visual cues, triggering severe semantic drift that deviates the VLM's understanding. In this paper, we first introduce the principle of 'Calibrate Before Reason' to visual token reduction and propose CaRe, a training-free robust framework that calibrates compact visual representations before reasoning to preserve semantic fidelity in VLMs. CaRe consists of two mutually complementary modules: 1) Perturbation-Robust Calibration Anchoring, which identifies calibration anchors with stable model-side influence under multi-directional perturbations; 2) Confidence-Gated Token Calibration, which extracts reliable calibration signals from unselected tokens and injects them into anchors. Extensive evaluations across diverse VLM architectures and benchmarks verify that CaRe outperforms state-of-the-art token reduction baselines. While pruning 94.4% of visual tokens, our method retains 96.4% of the original full-token performance, delivering up to 2.30 times faster end-to-end inference speed relative to unpruned vanilla models.

视觉语言模型令牌压缩语义保真

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