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arxiv: 2605.09982 · v1 · submitted 2026-05-11 · 💻 cs.CV

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ERASE: Eliminating Redundant Visual Tokens via Adaptive Two-Stage Token Pruning

Yuna Lee , Kyoungho Min , Yulhwa Kim
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keywords vision token pruningvision-language modelsadaptive pruningmultimodal efficiencytoken reductionimage complexity
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The pith

A two-stage adaptive pruning method lets vision-language models drop 85% of vision tokens while keeping most accuracy.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper aims to reduce the heavy computational load in vision-language models that arises from processing thousands of vision tokens for high-resolution images. It proposes that pruning can be made more effective by using a two-stage process: an initial pass based on the model's learned semantic features followed by an adjustment that accounts for how complex each specific image is. A sympathetic reader would care because this could make advanced multimodal systems practical on standard hardware instead of requiring massive resources. The reported results show that at an 85% pruning ratio the method keeps 89.46% of original accuracy on Qwen2.5-VL-7B, compared with 78.1% for the strongest earlier approach.

Core claim

ERASE is a two-stage vision token pruning framework that identifies and retains salient tokens through pruning strategies adaptive to image complexity. The first stage applies semantic-feature pruning while the second stage uses an image-complexity estimate to set a dynamic pruning ratio, allowing the method to discard redundant visual tokens without the sharp accuracy losses typical of fixed-ratio or non-adaptive techniques.

What carries the argument

The two-stage adaptive token pruning framework that combines semantic feature selection with per-image complexity estimation to decide which vision tokens to keep or remove.

If this is right

  • Vision-language models become usable at higher resolutions without proportional increases in compute.
  • Pruning decisions improve when they are allowed to vary with the content of each individual image.
  • The accuracy gap between pruned and full models narrows at aggressive pruning ratios.
  • Overall token counts drop enough to support real-time or on-device multimodal inference.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Image complexity appears to be a useful signal for visual redundancy that earlier pruning methods did not exploit.
  • The same two-stage idea could be tested on text-only large language models to prune less important context tokens.
  • Integrating the pruning step directly into the model's training loop might further reduce information loss.

Load-bearing premise

The two-stage mechanism can reliably separate essential visual information from redundant tokens across many different kinds of images using only the model's existing semantic features and a complexity estimate.

What would settle it

Measure accuracy on a new test set containing many high-complexity or atypical images and check whether the retained accuracy at 85% pruning falls substantially below the 89.46% figure reported for standard benchmarks.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.09982 by Kyoungho Min, Yulhwa Kim, Yuna Lee.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Scaling behavior of (a) vision token count, (b) prefill latency, and (c) KV cache size with [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_1.png] view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Comparison of vision token pruning schemes. (a) (Top) vision-only redundancy pruning [ [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_2.png] view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Scaling of attention map size in the image encoder of Qwen2.5-VL-7B. Vision-only redundancy reduction. Vision-only approaches prune redundant vision tokens using only visual features before the LLM backbone (Fig. 2a Top) [21, 19, 22, 8, 5]. These methods typically rely on attention scores or visual feature similarity. Early attention￾based methods were mainly designed for CLIP-based VLMs such as LLaVA, whe… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Overview of proposed ERASE from the input image and adaptively determines both the Stage 1 pruning threshold and the decoder layer for Stage 2 based on image complexity. The following sections describe each stage in detail. 3.2 Stage 1: Image-level vision token pruning Stage 1 of ERASE removes redundant vision tokens directly from the input image while preserv￾ing visual information. In raw images, neighbo… view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Low-/high-entropy patches in (Top) low- and (Bottom) high-complexity images. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Retained accuracy across raw images with different global entropy value [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_6.png] view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Latency of Qwen2.5-VL-7B To comprehensively evaluate the efficiency improvements of ERASE, we measure the prefill, decode, and end-to￾end task latency of Qwen2.5-VL-7B. All profiling is con￾ducted on a single NVIDIA RTX 5880Ti GPU with batch size 1. To reflect realistic optimized deployment settings, FlashAttention-2 [23] is enabled for all measurements. Evaluations are performed on a randomly sampled 30% … view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: Extended visual examples of low- and high-entropy patches across varying complexity [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p020_8.png] view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Recent advancements in Vision-Language Models (VLMs) enable large language models (LLMs) to process high-resolution images, significantly improving real-world multimodal understanding. However, this capability introduces a large number of vision tokens, resulting in substantial computational overhead. To mitigate this issue, various vision token pruning methods have been proposed. Nevertheless, existing approaches predominantly rely on learned semantic features within the model to capture visual redundancy. Moreover, they lack adaptive mechanisms to adjust pruning strategies according to the complexity of the input image. In this paper, we propose ERASE, a two-stage vision token pruning framework that identifies and retains salient tokens through pruning strategies adaptive to image complexity. Experiment results demonstrate that ERASE significantly reduces vision tokens while preserving accuracy. For Qwen2.5-VL-7B, at a token pruning ratio of 85\%, ERASE retains 89.46% of the original model accuracy, whereas the best prior method retains only 78.1%. Our code is available at https://github.com/Tuna-Luna/ERASE.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

3 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper introduces ERASE, a two-stage adaptive vision token pruning framework for VLMs. The first stage estimates image complexity and the second applies semantic-feature-based pruning to retain salient tokens. The central empirical claim is that ERASE reduces vision tokens substantially while preserving accuracy, specifically retaining 89.46% of original accuracy on Qwen2.5-VL-7B at an 85% pruning ratio versus 78.1% for the best prior method. Code is released at a public GitHub repository.

Significance. If the results hold under rigorous validation, the adaptive two-stage design offers a practical advance over purely semantic pruning methods for high-resolution VLMs, potentially lowering inference costs without proportional accuracy loss. The public code release is a clear strength that supports reproducibility and community follow-up. The work targets a timely efficiency bottleneck in multimodal models.

major comments (3)
  1. [§4] §4 (Experimental Results): The headline accuracy figures (89.46% retention at 85% pruning on Qwen2.5-VL-7B) are stated without reported standard deviations, number of runs, or explicit baseline implementations, making it impossible to assess whether the 11.36-point gap over prior methods is statistically reliable or reproducible.
  2. [§3.2] §3.2 (Complexity Estimator): No ablation or per-image/per-complexity breakdown is provided to test whether the image-complexity estimator systematically under-prunes or over-prunes on dense scenes; the aggregate scalar result alone cannot confirm that the two-stage mechanism avoids the hypothesized information-loss failure mode.
  3. [Table 2] Table 2 (or equivalent comparison table): The reported retention percentages lack error bars, dataset-specific splits, or controls for input resolution, which are load-bearing for the claim that adaptation “reliably identifies salient tokens across diverse inputs.”
minor comments (2)
  1. [§3] The abstract and method sections use “learned semantic features” without a precise pointer to which layer or attention map is used; a short equation or pseudocode would clarify the second-stage pruning rule.
  2. Figure captions should explicitly state the pruning ratio and model variant shown, and the GitHub README should include exact commands to reproduce the Qwen2.5-VL-7B numbers.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback and detailed comments on our manuscript. We address each major point below and commit to revisions that strengthen the statistical reporting and validation of the adaptive components.

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  1. Referee: [§4] The headline accuracy figures (89.46% retention at 85% pruning on Qwen2.5-VL-7B) are stated without reported standard deviations, number of runs, or explicit baseline implementations, making it impossible to assess whether the 11.36-point gap over prior methods is statistically reliable or reproducible.

    Authors: We agree that the absence of standard deviations and run counts limits statistical assessment. In the revised manuscript we will report mean accuracy and standard deviation over three independent runs (different random seeds) for the Qwen2.5-VL-7B experiments at 85% pruning. Baselines were re-implemented from their official repositories using identical evaluation protocols and input resolutions; we will explicitly document these implementation details and hyper-parameters in the revised experimental section to confirm the controlled nature of the 11.36-point gap. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [§3.2] No ablation or per-image/per-complexity breakdown is provided to test whether the image-complexity estimator systematically under-prunes or over-prunes on dense scenes; the aggregate scalar result alone cannot confirm that the two-stage mechanism avoids the hypothesized information-loss failure mode.

    Authors: The current submission emphasizes end-to-end benchmark performance, but we recognize that a dedicated ablation would better validate the complexity estimator. We will add a new ablation table comparing ERASE with and without the complexity stage, plus qualitative per-image pruning visualizations on both simple and dense scenes (e.g., from COCO and TextVQA). These additions will directly illustrate adaptation behavior and address the potential information-loss concern. revision: yes

  3. Referee: [Table 2] The reported retention percentages lack error bars, dataset-specific splits, or controls for input resolution, which are load-bearing for the claim that adaptation “reliably identifies salient tokens across diverse inputs.”

    Authors: We will augment Table 2 with error bars derived from the same multi-run protocol. Dataset-specific retention numbers are already present in the appendix; we will cross-reference them explicitly in the main text. All experiments use the model’s native input resolution settings, which we will state clearly as a controlled variable. These changes will reinforce the reliability of the adaptive pruning claim. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: purely empirical method with external validation

full rationale

The paper describes an empirical two-stage token pruning framework for vision-language models, supported solely by experimental accuracy measurements on models such as Qwen2.5-VL-7B and an external GitHub code repository. No equations, derivations, fitted parameters presented as predictions, or load-bearing self-citations appear in the text. The central claim reduces to measured retention rates rather than any internal reduction to inputs by construction, satisfying the criteria for a self-contained empirical result.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

2 free parameters · 0 axioms · 0 invented entities

With only the abstract available, the ledger is necessarily incomplete. The method appears to rely on standard VLM tokenization and learned attention features rather than new axioms or entities.

free parameters (2)
  • pruning ratio = 85%
    85% ratio used in the headline experiment; chosen for evaluation rather than derived.
  • complexity thresholds
    Adaptive decisions depend on unspecified thresholds or estimators for image complexity.

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