@article{keeptheneedleprunethehaystackdefectprese, title = {Keep the Needle, Prune the Haystack: Defect-Preserving Token Pruning for Efficient Zero-Shot Anomaly Detection}, author = {Yanning Hou and Jingyuan Zhang and Xiaoyun Wang and Qixiang Ma and Sihang Zhou and Ke Xu}, year = {2026}, eprint = {2608.03681}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.03681}, }