Preprint
Aug 2026
Balancing Efficiency and Efficacy: Training-Free Attention-Guided Switching Between Explicit and Latent Thoughts for MLLMs
A novel training-free inference strategy for MLLMs that explicitly decouples perception and reasoning is presented, and a novel metric, the vision-to-text attention ratio, is proposed, to dynamically gauge the model's cognitive focus.
Haoqiang Kang, Liupeng Li, Kuofeng Gao et al.
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