https://nalar.dev/tags/token-merging/ Recent content in Token Merging on Nalar Hugo en-us Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0700 https://nalar.dev/reduce-vision-transformer-compute-with-token-merging/ Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0700 https://nalar.dev/reduce-vision-transformer-compute-with-token-merging/ <h1 id="reduce-vision-transformer-compute-with-token-merging">Reduce Vision Transformer Compute with Token Merging</h1> <p>Vision transformers can spend substantial computation processing many patch tokens that carry similar information. A patch covering one part of a clear sky may produce a representation close to nearby sky patches, yet ordinary self-attention continues to process each token separately.</p> <p><strong>Token merging</strong> reduces that redundancy by combining selected tokens as they move through the network. Unlike token pruning, which removes tokens, merging tries to preserve their information in a smaller set of representations. The practical goal is simple: reduce the token count in later transformer blocks while keeping task quality within an acceptable range.</p>