@article{topsfirstprinciplesvisualtokenpruningvia,
  title = {TOPS: First-Principles Visual Token Pruning via Constructing Token Optimal Preservation Sets for Efficient MLLM Inference},
  author = {Tinghao Wang and Yichen Guo and Rui Huang and Zheng Lu and Qizhe Zhang and Chenxi Li and Yuan Zhang and Jiajun Cao and Zhirong Shen and Yaosong Du and Guangyan Gan and Wenya Wang and Lin William Cong and Shanghang Zhang},
  year = {2026},
  eprint = {2606.27161},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.27161},
}