PruneVid: Visual Token Pruning for Efficient Video Large Language Models

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2412.16117v1
• Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2024 18:01:58 GMT
• Title: PruneVid: Visual Token Pruning for Efficient Video Large Language Models
• Abstract summary: We introduce PruneVid, a visual token pruning method designed to enhance the efficiency of multi-modal video understanding.<n>LLMs have shown promising performance in video tasks due to their extended capabilities in comprehending visual modalities.<n>We validate our method across multiple video benchmarks, which demonstrate that PruneVid can prune over 80% of tokens.
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• Abstract: In this paper, we introduce PruneVid, a visual token pruning method designed to enhance the efficiency of multi-modal video understanding. Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown promising performance in video tasks due to their extended capabilities in comprehending visual modalities. However, the substantial redundancy in video data presents significant computational challenges for LLMs. To address this issue, we introduce a training-free method that 1) minimizes video redundancy by merging spatial-temporal tokens, and 2) leverages LLMs' reasoning capabilities to selectively prune visual features relevant to question tokens, enhancing model efficiency. We validate our method across multiple video benchmarks, which demonstrate that PruneVid can prune over 80% of tokens while maintaining competitive performance combined with different model networks. This highlights its superior effectiveness and efficiency compared to existing pruning methods. Code: https://github.com/Visual-AI/PruneVid.

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