The computational cost of training multimodal large language models (MLLMs) grows rapidly with the number of processed tokens. Existing efficiency methods mainly target inference via token reduction or merging, offering limited benefits during training. We introduce ReGATE (**Re**ference-**G**uided **A**daptive **T**oken **E**lision), an adaptive token pruning method for accelerating MLLM training. ReGATE adopts a teacher-student framework, in which a frozen teacher LLM provides per-token guidance losses that are fused with an exponential moving average of the student’s difficulty estimates. This adaptive scoring mechanism dynamically selects informative tokens while skipping redundant ones in the forward pass, substantially reducing computation without altering the model architecture. Across three representative MLLMs, ReGATE matches the peak accuracy of standard training on MVBench up to **2 × faster**, using only **38%** of the tokens. With extended training, it even surpasses the baseline across multiple multimodal benchmarks, cutting total token usage by over **41%**. Code and models will be released publicly.

Video-language models (Video-LLMs) excel at understanding video content but struggle with spatial relationships, temporal ordering, and cross-frame continuity. To address these limitations, we introduce VideoPASTA (Preference Alignment with Spatio-Temporal-Cross Frame Adversaries), a framework that enhances Video-LLMs through targeted preference optimization. VideoPASTA trains models to distinguish accurate video representations from carefully crafted adversarial examples that deliberately violate spatial, temporal, or cross-frame relationships. With only 7,020 preference pairs and Direct Preference Optimization, VideoPASTA enables models to learn robust representations that capture fine-grained spatial details and long-range temporal dynamics. Experiments demonstrate that VideoPASTA is model agnostic and significantly improves performance, for example, achieving gains of up to + 3.8 percentage points on LongVideoBench, +4.1 on VideoMME, and +4.0 on MVBench, when applied to various state-of-the-art Video-LLMs. These results demonstrate that targeted alignment, rather than massive pretraining or architectural modifications, effectively addresses core video-language challenges. Notably, VideoPASTA achieves these improvements without any human annotation or captioning, relying solely on 32-frame sampling. This efficiency makes our approach a scalable plug-and-play solution that seamlessly integrates with existing models while preserving their original capabilities.

This paper presents the method for the unlearning of sensitive information from large language models as applied in the SemEval 2025 Task 4 challenge. The unlearning pipeline consists of two phases. In phase I, the model is instructed to forget specific datasets, and in phase II, the model is stabilized using a retention dataset. Unlearning with these methods secured a final score of 0.420 with the 2nd honorary mention in the 7B parameter challenge and a score of 0.36 in the 13th position for the 1B parameter challenge. The paper presents a background study, a brief literature review, and a gap analysis, as well as the methodology employed in our work titled NeuroReset. The training methodology and evaluation metrics are also presented, and the trade-offs between unlearning efficiency and model performance are discussed. The contributions of the paper are systematic unlearning, a comparative analysis of unlearning methods, and an empirical analysis of model performance post-unlearning.