As a systems and compiler geek, I like finding and fixing inefficiencies. A friend and I stumbled upon neat low-lying fruit in VLMs: they keep paying for the same background over and over. We got huge speedups, 14.9–35.9× faster!

And the meme title was fun:

VLMaxxing through FrameMogging: training-free anti-recomputation for video VLMs

Website: https://vlmaxxi.ng
Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.03351
Code: https://github.com/jfbastien/VLMaxxing

France: 𝒜𝓅𝓅𝑒𝓁𝓁𝒶𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃 𝒹’𝑜𝓇𝒾𝑔𝒾𝓃𝑒 𝓅𝓇𝑜𝓉𝑒́𝑔𝑒́𝑒
Japan: Just so you know… this one’s gonna STINK

(it’s really good)