cs.IR · 2026-07-07 · No. 46

Information Retrieval, 2026-07-07.

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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, Jaewoo Kang

    cs.IR · cs.AI · cs.CL · cs.CV

    Multi-vector vision-language retrieval preserves fine-grained visual evidence through maximum-similarity late interaction, but dense image-side tokens make storage and scoring expensive. Existing token compression methods reduce this cost, yet they can remove or collapse object- and region-level evidence that future query tokens may need to select. We propose SaMer, an object-aware token merging framework that compresses image-side...

    arxiv.org/abs/2607.04605 · PDF

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