| """ |
| SPLIT: Salience-guided Partitioning towards Local coverage for Importance-aware |
| Token dropping. Faithful, training-free reimplementation of Algorithm 1 from |
| SPLIT-VLM (ICML 2026, OpenReview Elm4TdaXi0). |
| |
| Given the per-layer ViT hidden states of the vision patch tokens and the final |
| patch-token embeddings, SPLIT selects a subset of `budget` tokens by: |
| 1. temporal-shift importance I(x) = mean_l ||h_l - h_{l-1}|| / ||h_l|| (Eq.5-6) |
| 2. adaptive region budget B_k = B/K + B * I(X_k)/sum_j I(X_j) (Eq.7) |
| 3. diversity-score selection D(i) = lambda*std_j(S_ij) - mean_j(S_ij) (Eq.8-10) |
| select top-B_k tokens by D within each region. |
| |
| All operations are batch-size-1 (one image) and vectorised in torch. |
| """ |
| from __future__ import annotations |
| import math |
| import torch |
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| def temporal_shift_importance(hidden_states, layers=None): |
| """ |
| hidden_states: list/tuple of length L+1, each [N, d] (patch tokens only, |
| CLS already removed), h[0] = embeddings, h[l] = after layer l. |
| layers: iterable of layer indices l>=1 to use (default: all). |
| returns I: [N] importance per token (Eq. 6). |
| """ |
| L = len(hidden_states) - 1 |
| if layers is None: |
| layers = range(1, L + 1) |
| layers = [l for l in layers if 1 <= l <= L] |
| acc = None |
| for l in layers: |
| h = hidden_states[l] |
| hprev = hidden_states[l - 1] |
| num = torch.linalg.vector_norm(h - hprev, dim=-1) |
| den = torch.linalg.vector_norm(h, dim=-1).clamp_min(1e-6) |
| delta = num / den |
| acc = delta if acc is None else acc + delta |
| return acc / len(layers) |
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|
| def region_ids_grid(num_tokens, grid_hw, region_grid): |
| """ |
| Map each patch token to a region id for a square grid of patches. |
| grid_hw = (H, W) patch grid (e.g. 24,24); region_grid = (rh, rw) e.g. (4,4)=16 regions. |
| returns LongTensor [N] with region id in [0, rh*rw). |
| """ |
| H, W = grid_hw |
| rh, rw = region_grid |
| assert H * W == num_tokens, f"{H}*{W} != {num_tokens}" |
| idx = torch.arange(num_tokens) |
| row = idx // W |
| col = idx % W |
| |
| r_row = (row * rh // H).clamp(max=rh - 1) |
| r_col = (col * rw // W).clamp(max=rw - 1) |
| return (r_row * rw + r_col).long() |
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|
| def allocate_region_budgets(importance, region_ids, K, budget): |
| """ |
| Eq. 7 hybrid allocation, then integer rounding that sums exactly to `budget` |
| and never exceeds region population. |
| importance: [N]; region_ids: [N]; K regions; budget total tokens to keep. |
| returns dict region_id -> int budget. |
| """ |
| device = importance.device |
| reg_imp = torch.zeros(K, device=device) |
| reg_cnt = torch.zeros(K, device=device) |
| reg_imp.scatter_add_(0, region_ids, importance) |
| reg_cnt.scatter_add_(0, region_ids, torch.ones_like(importance)) |
| |
| mean_imp = torch.where(reg_cnt > 0, reg_imp / reg_cnt.clamp_min(1), torch.zeros_like(reg_imp)) |
| total_imp = mean_imp.sum().clamp_min(1e-9) |
| |
| |
| |
| b_float = budget / K + budget * (mean_imp / total_imp) |
| |
| b_float = torch.where(reg_cnt > 0, b_float, torch.zeros_like(b_float)) |
| b_float = b_float * (budget / b_float.sum().clamp_min(1e-9)) |
| |
| b_float = torch.minimum(b_float, reg_cnt) |
| |
| floor = torch.floor(b_float) |
| rem = b_float - floor |
| alloc = floor.clone() |
| deficit = int(round(budget - float(alloc.sum().item()))) |
| if deficit > 0: |
| |
| cap = (reg_cnt - alloc) |
| order = torch.argsort(rem * (cap > 0), descending=True) |
| i = 0 |
| while deficit > 0 and i < len(order): |
| k = order[i].item() |
| if cap[k] > 0: |
| alloc[k] += 1 |
| cap[k] -= 1 |
| deficit -= 1 |
| i += 1 |
| if i >= len(order) and deficit > 0: |
| |
| cap = (reg_cnt - alloc) |
| order = torch.argsort(cap, descending=True) |
| i = 0 |
| if float(cap.max()) <= 0: |
| break |
| elif deficit < 0: |
| order = torch.argsort(rem) |
| i = 0 |
| while deficit < 0 and i < len(order): |
| k = order[i].item() |
| if alloc[k] > 0: |
| alloc[k] -= 1 |
| deficit += 1 |
| i += 1 |
| return {k: int(alloc[k].item()) for k in range(K)} |
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|
| def diversity_scores(token_embeds, lam=0.5, chunk=None): |
| """ |
| Eq. 8-10. token_embeds: [N, d]. D(i) = lam*sigma_i - mu_i, where S is the |
| cosine self-similarity matrix. Returns D: [N]. |
| """ |
| x = torch.nn.functional.normalize(token_embeds.float(), dim=-1) |
| N = x.shape[0] |
| |
| if chunk is None or N <= chunk: |
| S = x @ x.t() |
| mu = S.mean(dim=1) |
| sigma = S.std(dim=1, unbiased=False) |
| else: |
| mu = torch.empty(N, device=x.device) |
| sigma = torch.empty(N, device=x.device) |
| for s in range(0, N, chunk): |
| e = min(s + chunk, N) |
| Sc = x[s:e] @ x.t() |
| mu[s:e] = Sc.mean(dim=1) |
| sigma[s:e] = Sc.std(dim=1, unbiased=False) |
| return lam * sigma - mu |
|
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|
| def split_select(hidden_states, token_embeds, budget, |
| grid_hw=(24, 24), region_grid=(4, 4), layers=None, lam=0.5): |
| """ |
| Full SPLIT selection. Returns sorted LongTensor of kept token indices (len=budget). |
| hidden_states: per-layer ViT hidden states for the N patch tokens (CLS removed). |
| token_embeds: [N, d] final patch embeddings used for diversity. |
| """ |
| N = token_embeds.shape[0] |
| if budget >= N: |
| return torch.arange(N, device=token_embeds.device) |
| K = region_grid[0] * region_grid[1] |
| device = token_embeds.device |
| imp = temporal_shift_importance(hidden_states, layers).to(device) |
| rid = region_ids_grid(N, grid_hw, region_grid).to(device) |
| budgets = allocate_region_budgets(imp, rid, K, budget) |
| D = diversity_scores(token_embeds, lam=lam) |
| keep = [] |
| for k in range(K): |
| bk = budgets[k] |
| if bk <= 0: |
| continue |
| mask = (rid == k).nonzero(as_tuple=True)[0] |
| if mask.numel() == 0: |
| continue |
| dk = D[mask] |
| topk = torch.topk(dk, min(bk, mask.numel())).indices |
| keep.append(mask[topk]) |
| keep = torch.cat(keep) if keep else torch.arange(min(budget, N), device=device) |
| return torch.sort(keep).values |
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| |
| def random_select(N, budget, generator=None, device="cpu"): |
| if budget >= N: |
| return torch.arange(N, device=device) |
| perm = torch.randperm(N, generator=generator)[:budget] |
| return torch.sort(perm).values.to(device) |
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|
| def attention_select(cls_attn, budget): |
| """FastV/HiRED-style: keep top-`budget` tokens by CLS->patch attention. |
| cls_attn: [N] attention from CLS to each patch (already averaged over heads).""" |
| N = cls_attn.shape[0] |
| if budget >= N: |
| return torch.arange(N, device=cls_attn.device) |
| idx = torch.topk(cls_attn, budget).indices |
| return torch.sort(idx).values |
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