Video Token Sparsification for Efficient Multimodal LLMs in Autonomous Driving

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2409.11182v1
• Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2024 05:31:01 GMT
• Title: Video Token Sparsification for Efficient Multimodal LLMs in Autonomous Driving
• Authors: Yunsheng Ma, Amr Abdelraouf, Rohit Gupta, Ziran Wang, Kyungtae Han,
• Abstract summary: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have demonstrated remarkable potential for enhancing scene understanding in autonomous driving systems. One major limitation arises from the large number of visual tokens required to capture fine-grained and long-context visual information. We propose Video Token Sparsification (VTS) to significantly reduce the total number of visual tokens while preserving the most salient information.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have demonstrated remarkable potential for enhancing scene understanding in autonomous driving systems through powerful logical reasoning capabilities. However, the deployment of these models faces significant challenges due to their substantial parameter sizes and computational demands, which often exceed the constraints of onboard computation. One major limitation arises from the large number of visual tokens required to capture fine-grained and long-context visual information, leading to increased latency and memory consumption. To address this issue, we propose Video Token Sparsification (VTS), a novel approach that leverages the inherent redundancy in consecutive video frames to significantly reduce the total number of visual tokens while preserving the most salient information. VTS employs a lightweight CNN-based proposal model to adaptively identify key frames and prune less informative tokens, effectively mitigating hallucinations and increasing inference throughput without compromising performance. We conduct comprehensive experiments on the DRAMA and LingoQA benchmarks, demonstrating the effectiveness of VTS in achieving up to a 33\% improvement in inference throughput and a 28\% reduction in memory usage compared to the baseline without compromising performance.

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