MedPruner: Training-Free Hierarchical Token Pruning for Efficient 3D Medical Image Understanding in Vision-Language Models

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Source paper: MedPruner: Training-Free Hierarchical Token Pruning for Efficient 3D Medical Image Understanding in Vision-Language Models

PDF: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.11625v1

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specialized Medical Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have achieved remarkable success in interpreting 2D and 3D medical modalities
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their deployment for 3D volumetric data remains constrained by significant computational inefficiencies
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Current architectures typically suffer from massive anatomical redundancy due to the direct concatenation of consecutive 2D slices
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lack the flexibility to handle heterogeneous information densities across different slices using fixed pruning ratios
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we propose MedPruner, a training-free and model-agnostic hierarchical token pruning framework specifically designed for efficient 3D medical image understanding
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MedPruner introduces a two-stage mechanism: an Inter-slice Anchor-based Filtering module to eliminate slice-level temporal redundancy, followed by a Dynamic Information Nucleus Selection strategy
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Extensive experiments on three 3D medical benchmarks and across three diverse medical VLMs reveal massive token redundancy in existing architectures
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MedPruner enables models such as MedGemma to maintain or even exceed their original performance while retaining fewer than 5% of visual tokens
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