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Do All Visual Tokens Matter Equally? Object-Evidence Preserving Token Merging for Vision-Language Retrieval

Suhyeong Park, Junha Jung, Jungwoo Park +1

The paper introduces SaMer, an object‑aware token merging method that compresses image tokens into a small set of centroids while keeping the late‑interaction interface for vision‑…