2 papers
cs.CV2026
AdaMerge: Salience-Aware Adaptive Token Merging for Training-Free Acceleration of Vision Transformers
Semi Lee, Hyejin Go, Hyesong Choi
The quadratic cost of self-attention in Vision Transformers (ViTs) constitutes a fundamental bottleneck for practical deployment, motivating a vibrant line of research on token red…
cs.CV2026
What Does the Caption Really Say? Counterfactual Phrase Intervention for Compositional Data Selection in Vision-Language Pretraining
Hyejin Go, Semi Lee, Hyesong Choi
CLIP-style contrastive pretraining typically curates web-scale image-text pairs using sample-level filtering signals, often based on pair-level alignment. We show that this signal…