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New benchmarks and pruning methods target multimodal model reasoning and efficiency

Two new arXiv papers address multimodal large language models: VIGOR benchmarks whether visual rationales are correct beyond answer accuracy, and DiFiT introduces distribution-fidelity-guided visual token pruning to cut inference costs.

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  1. 2026-11-13 05:00 · arXiv cs.CV
    DiFiT: Distribution-Fidelity-guided Visual Token Pruning for Multimodal Large Language Models
  2. 2026-11-11 05:00 · arXiv cs.CV
    VIGOR: Benchmarking Visual Rationale Correctness in Multimodal Large Language Models

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