DORA: Dynamic Online Reinforcement Agent for Token Pruning in Vision Transformers
Vision Transformers (ViTs) incur quadratic self-attention cost in the number of tokens. Most token-reduction methods adapt token identities within a prescribed layer-wise compression schedule, or search a static mask offline, and thus limit online adaptation of when and how much to prune. We propose DORA (Dynamic Online Reinforcement Agent), which learns an input-adaptive pruning policy itself for frozen ViTs. At each eligible block, a hierarchical actor decides whether to prune, how many tokens to remove, and which tokens to remove from each image's evolving representation. Because early deletions change the states observed by later decisions, DORA formulates pruning as a finite-horizon ...
| Authors | Kaixuan He, Song Chen, Yi Kang |
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| Primary category | cs.CV |
| Published | 28 September 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 28 September 2026 |
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