Rethinking Visual Token Compression for Video Large Language Models: A Simple Yet Strong Baseline

arXiv:2609.35394 · cs.CV · Submitted 2026-09-28 · Read on arXiv

cs.CV

Submitted: 2026-09-28

Updated: 2026-09-28

Code: https://github.com/xiaozhang79/SimpleCluster

Terminology

• Clustering — 46× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmark — 30× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Aggregation — 17× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Pruning — 17× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Fidelity — 9× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Redundancy — 9× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Robustness — 7× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Cosine Similarity — 6× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Quantization — 5× in this paper · explained in 12 episodes
• Ablation — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Transformer — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Optimal Transport — 3× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Structural Constraints — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation Studies — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Ablation study — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Computational overhead — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Instruction Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Multimodal Inputs — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Reconstruction Error — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Regularization — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Temporal Reasoning — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Temporal consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Tokenization — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Qwen2.5-VL Technical Report
• VideoLLaMA 2: Advancing Spatial-Temporal Modeling and Audio Understanding in Video-LLMs
• Thinking with Cameras: Active Visual Reasoning via Dynamic Viewpoint Control for Surveillance Video Understanding
• InternVL3: Exploring Advanced Training and Test-Time Recipes for Open-Source Multimodal Models

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