FastVGGT: Fast Visual Geometry Transformer
You Shen, Zhipeng Zhang, Yansong Qu, Xiawu Zheng, Jiayi Ji, Shengchuan Zhang, Liujuan Cao
Abstract
Scaling visual geometry transformers for long image sequences poses a significant computational and memory challenge. In this work, we diagnose this issue in the state-of-the-art model VGGT, and trace the primary bottleneck to its Global Attention layer. Our analysis reveals a ``token collapse'' phenomenon, where many tokens attend to nearly identical regions, resulting in redundant computation and inefficiency. Motivated by this finding, we propose FastVGGT, a training-free framework that strategically prunes these redundant tokens. Instead of uniform merging, FastVGGT employs a tailored, three-part token partitioning strategy. It preserves initial-frame tokens as a stable global reference, retains salient tokens to maintain fine details, and utilizes region-based random sampling to ensure spatially balanced coverage. Extensive experiments on multiple 3D geometry benchmarks validate our approach's effectiveness. Notably, on sequences of 1000 images, FastVGGT achieves a 4 speedup over the original VGGT while simultaneously mitigating error accumulation, demonstrating its efficiency and robustness for long-sequence scenarios. For further details, please visit our project page: https://mystorm16.github.io/fastvggt/.
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