PACE: A Unified Condense-and-Extract Paradigm for Fast VLM Inference

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) demonstrate exceptional visual reasoning capabilities, yet their inference costs escalate rapidly with the proliferation of visual tokens.

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) demonstrate exceptional visual reasoning capabilities, yet their inference costs escalate rapidly with the proliferation of visual tokens. Existing visual token pruning methods exhibit two fundamental limitations. First, most approaches operate…