Token-Efficient Multimodal Reasoning via Image Prompt Packaging

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• Reduce multimodal AI inference costs by embedding structured text directly into images, achieving significant savings with competitive accuracy. We introduce Image Prompt Packaging (IPPg), a prompting paradigm that embeds structured text directly into images to reduce text token overhead, and benchmark it across five datasets, three frontier models (GPT-4.1, GPT-4o, Claude 3.5 Sonnet), and two task families (VQA and code generation).problem 35%
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  Reduce multimodal AI inference costs by embedding structured text directly into images, achieving significant savings with competitive accuracy. We introduce Image Prompt Packaging (IPPg), a prompting paradigm that embeds structured text directly into images to reduce text token overhead, and benchmark it across five datasets, three frontier models (GPT-4.1, GPT-4o, Claude 3.5 Sonnet), and two task families (VQA and code generation).

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• Deploying large multimodal language models at scale is constrained by token-based inference costs, yet the cost-performance behavior of visual prompting strategies remains poorly characterized. We introduce Image Prompt Packaging (IPPg), a prompting paradigm that embeds structured text directly into images to reduce text token overhead, and benchmark it across five datasets, three frontier models (GPT-4.1, GPT-4o, Claude 3.5 Sonnet), and two task families (VQA and code generation).method 35%
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  Deploying large multimodal language models at scale is constrained by token-based inference costs, yet the cost-performance behavior of visual prompting strategies remains poorly characterized. We introduce Image Prompt Packaging (IPPg), a prompting paradigm that embeds structured text directly into images to reduce text token overhead, and benchmark it across five datasets, three frontier models (GPT-4.1, GPT-4o, Claude 3.5 Sonnet), and two task families (VQA and code generation).

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• ScienceToStartup currently rates this 7.0/10 on the public viability pass. We derive a cost formulation decomposing savings by token type and show IPPg achieves 35.8--91.0\% inference cost reductions. Code availability is flagged in the production record; the public repository link still needs proof alignment.result 35%
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  ScienceToStartup currently rates this 7.0/10 on the public viability pass. We derive a cost formulation decomposing savings by token type and show IPPg achieves 35.8--91.0\% inference cost reductions. Code availability is flagged in the production record; the public repository link still needs proof alignment.

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  Abstract-backed fallback claim; anchored extraction has not materialized a public claim row yet.

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• Multimodal AI moved forward this cycle; last verified April 2026. Public score 7.0/10. Production flags indicate code availability.why now 35%
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  Multimodal AI moved forward this cycle; last verified April 2026. Public score 7.0/10. Production flags indicate code availability.

  Implicationpartial

  Abstract-backed fallback claim; anchored extraction has not materialized a public claim row yet.

  Verificationpartial

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Reduce multimodal AI inference costs by embedding structured text directly into images, achieving significant savings with competitive accuracy.