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Sep 14, 2026cs.CV

LynnReal-Omni: Native multi-modal Video Generation for Agentic Visual Workflows

Video diffusion models are stochastic and hard to control: precise content often requires repeated sampling without guaranteed success, and long-horizon scenes drift in appearance, interactions, and temporal coherence. Agentic visual creation provides explicit references, editable 3D scenes, or executable game states for stable control, but does not by itself guarantee high object or character fidelity. Combining the two can enable stable, high-quality generation. To realize this combination, we present LynnReal-Omni, a native multimodal video generation framework built on a 32B shared multimodal diffusion transformer that unifies text-to-video, image-conditioned generation, reference-guided generation, structural control, editing, degraded video restoration, and long-video generation. It accepts heterogeneous visual inputs, including appearance references, editable 3D renders, and game recordings, allowing agents to compose visual conditions within a unified model. We also train a dedicated 27B Flash shared multimodal diffusion transformer for real-time rendering. We build a systematic data pipeline for video cleaning, subject association, multimodal annotation, and aligned control construction, yielding a curated corpus of multi-shot audiovisual segments, and introduce MSAVP, a 100-prompt, 20-metric evaluation design that separates instruction following, generating plausibility, visual quality, temporal behavior, and audio coordination. LynnReal-Omni-Flash further reduces inference cost through model and decoding acceleration, including a lightweight VAE decoder; on one H100, warm generation and decoding of a 22-frame 540p video take 843 ms with LynnReal-Omni and 377 ms with Flash. These results provide a foundation for real-time streaming video generation, making LynnReal-Omni a unified, controllable, and efficient basis for agentic visual creation.
Xiaofeng Mao, Peijia Lin, Shaohao Rui +3
Aug 11, 2026cs.AI

Ex-Omni-2D: Expressive Omni-Modal Dialogue Models with Native Visual Presence

Omni-modal dialogue models can understand multimodal inputs and synthesize spoken replies, but a spoken answer still leaves the agent visually absent. We introduce \textbf{Ex-Omni-2D}, a framework that answers a multimodal query with coordinated text, personalized speech, and reference-conditioned video. The dialogue model first writes a structured \textit{Visual Thought Plan} (VTP) for scene, emotion, and motion, then generates the response text and multi-codebook speech units. These speech units are decoded into audio and aligned with video frames, giving the speech and avatar modules a common timing signal while allowing them to learn from different data sources. The video module is trained as a full-sequence Teacher conditioned on reference appearance, VTP semantics, and frame-aligned speech units. We further explore to distill it into a few-step block-causal \emph{Streaming Student}; its Prefix Streaming mechanism carries the previous clean latent into the next chunk and is analyzed as a partial mitigation for late-chunk subject drift. At 400×720400\times720/720×400720\times400, the four-step four-GPU Student provides incremental output with lower startup latency than the full-sequence Teacher.
Haoyu Zhang, Zhipeng Li, Xiaoying Tang +2
Aug 10, 2026cs.AI

Listen, See and Track: Spatio-Temporal Audio-Visual Sound Event Reasoning for Omni-Modal Language Models

Understanding dynamic sound sources requires jointly determining what produces a sound, where the source is located, and how it moves over time. Yet existing audio-language models often represent clips as global acoustic events, while vision-language models lack the spatial audio cues needed to localize and track individual sources. To evaluate this missing capability, we introduce ST-OmniQA, a spatio-temporal audio-visual question-answering benchmark built from panoramic videos paired with synchronized first-order Ambisonics (FOA) audio of moving sound sources. It contains 40K videos and 400K question-answer pairs organized into four capability levels covering sound-event recognition, direction of arrival, source distance, motion trajectories, and temporally grounded audio-visual reasoning. Building on this benchmark, we propose ST-Omni-R1, which integrates FOA-derived semantic and trajectory representations with panoramic visual context and is trained through progressive curriculum learning and reasoning-tree reinforcement learning. ST-Omni-R1 achieves 77.83% average semantic accuracy across the four levels, compared with 37.28% for the best evaluated baseline. Results on three public spatial-audio benchmarks further indicate that its learned spatial and motion representations transfer beyond ST-OmniQA.
Zhi Zeng, Cheng Zhang, Zesheng Yang +9
Aug 10, 2026cs.AI

Omni2LoRA: Coherence-Preserving Parametric Memory for Efficient Omni Language Models

Omnimodal language models (OLMs) enable unified audio-visual understanding, but processing long joint token sequences makes inference computationally prohibitive. While recent token compression methods attempt to alleviate this burden, compressing modalities in isolation often destroys the temporal cross-modal anchors necessary for coherent reasoning. We introduce Omni2LoRA, a two-stage framework for efficient parametric memory compression via coherence-preserving context distillation that bypasses the token bottleneck entirely. First, a Perceiver hypernetwork processes intermediate representations from a frozen OLM to encode the multimodal context into a full-rank Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) adapter in a single forward pass. To prevent the resulting parameter footprint from scaling linearly with recording length, we optimize a discrete rank allocation policy via Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) that uses a modality-ablated counterfactual reward to explicitly penalize the loss of audio-visual coherence, forcing the model to allocate its fixed sub-linear rank budget to synergistic cross-modal anchors rather than isolated visual features. Across three omnimodal backbones, Omni2LoRA operating at a 30% rank budget outperforms direct full-context inference and strong token-compression baselines (OmniZip, OMAC, O-MARC) on four audio-visual question answering benchmarks, improving average accuracy by 8-12% over the strongest baseline and remaining stable under compression ratios as tight as 75%, where token-pruning methods degrade sharply. By converting multimodal memory into a fixed-budget, reusable parameter state, our method drives answer-time multimodal-token load to zero, cutting per-query Time to First Token (TTFT) by up to 12x relative to full-context inference and amortizing to under 0.5s after a handful of queries.
Puneet Mathur, Manan Suri, Dinesh Manocha
Aug 7, 2026cs.CV

Understand Before Detect: Vision--Language Learning for Omni-Domain Infrared Small Target Detection

Omni-domain infrared small target (IRST) detection is crucial for infrared surveillance, yet remains challenging due to heterogeneous imaging domains and inconsistent target characteristics. Previous deep learning-based methods have been developed for visual-only paradigms and achieved promising performance on domain-specific tasks. However, existing methods follow the task-specific supervised learning paradigm. This paradigm simplifies the full-scene infrared observations to sparse target supervision, discarding the semantics that remain invariant across heterogeneous domains. Consequently, detection performance suffers substantially under domain shifts. To handle this issue, we introduce \textbf{``understand before detect''}, a paradigm that formulates omni-domain IRST detection as an understanding-driven process, where holistic infrared target understanding precedes precise detection. Building on this paradigm, we propose \textbf{JinSight}, which first develops holistic IRST understanding through language supervision and then transfers the learned cross-domain representations to precise small-target detection. By grounding infrared representations in language semantics, JinSight enables a single model to generalize across heterogeneous infrared domains. We then introduce Latent Semantic Interaction (LSI), which exchanges language-aligned global semantics with fine-grained spatial features in a compact low-rank space. To address the lack of multimodal omni-domain IRST benchmarks, we build \textbf{OmniIRST-VL}, the first large-scale, highly diverse vision--language dataset for omni-domain IRST detection. It comprises over 39k annotations across six complementary instruction tasks covering both scene-level understanding and target-centric reasoning.
Haoyang Yuan, Boyang Li, Yingqian Wang +7
Aug 1, 2026cs.RO

OmniAI: A Surface-Adaptive Aerial Projection Interface for Human--Drone Interaction

Drones in human environments often lack spatially grounded in- terfaces for situated communication. We present OmniAI, an em- bodied aerial agent that supports surface-adaptive interaction by switching projection between an onboard screen and nearby en- vironmental surfaces. A servo-actuated MEMS laser projector renders text-and-image responses from a web-augmented LLM pipeline. Projection surfaces are detected online using RGB-D sensing and RANSAC plane fitting, without pre-mapped geometry. OmniAI provides functionally equivalent voice and gesture con- trol for both drone motion and projected content. By combining speech, mid-air gestures, adaptive projection, and aerial mobility, OmniAI demonstrates a mobile spatial AR interface for context- aware human-drone interaction.
Nikita Kuzmin, Yuhua Jin, Georgii Demianchuk +6
Jul 28, 2026quant-ph

OmniQEC: discovering practical quantum error-correcting codes by an AI scientist

Quantum error correction (QEC) is indispensable for scalable fault-tolerant quantum computing. However, discovering QEC codes that remain effective is challenging, as logical performance depends on the interplay between code structure, hardware, syndrome extraction, and decoding, which often impose competing requirements. Here we introduce OmniQEC, an efficient AI scientist for discovering QEC codes suited to deployment on modern quantum processors. OmniQEC formulates QEC design as an iterative discovery process in which an orchestrator, implemented by advanced large language models (LLMs), coordinates code generation, code-level screening, syndrome-extraction synthesis, and decoder-based circuit evaluation. At its core, OmniQEC combines a self-evolving reasoning mechanism with a slow--fast synergistic workflow: a fast loop explores candidates using inexpensive code-level proxies, whereas a slow loop performs physically grounded circuit-level evaluation and feeds the resulting evidence back into the search. We evaluate OmniQEC across four qLDPC construction families, three LLM backends, and 1414 total-physical-qubit budgets per backend. The discovered codes show steadily improving logical-error suppression with increasing physical-qubit budgets and outperform the BB codes with [ ⁣[72,12,6] ⁣][\![72,12,6]\!] and [ ⁣[144,12,12] ⁣][\![144,12,12]\!] under complete-implementation budgets of 98 and 240 physical qubits, respectively. The discovered codes are hardware-friendly and may be of independent interest for practical QEC implementation. These findings pave the way towards LLM-assisted QEC discovery grounded in physically informed code--circuit--decoder co-design.
Ge Yan, Shanchuan Li, Pengyue Ma +5
Jul 17, 2026cs.AI

S1-Omni: A Unified Multimodal Reasoning Model for Scientific Understanding, Prediction, and Generation

We present S1-Omni, a unified multimodal reasoning model for scientific understanding, prediction, and generation. AI for Science (AI4S) has advanced significantly through domain-specific models, tool-augmented LLMs, and scientific language models. However, model capabilities remain highly fragmented, limiting the joint modeling of heterogeneous data, scientific laws, and expert knowledge. S1-Omni addresses this gap by consolidating these capabilities into a single, coherent scientific reasoning model. The architecture of S1-Omni is built upon three core components: unified representation of scientific data, natural-world knowledge alignment, and decoding for domain-specific tasks. First, S1-Omni maps natural-language instructions and scientific objects, including CIF, SMILES, protein sequences, spectra, and scientific images, into a shared representation space. Second, it incorporates scientific laws and expert knowledge into data construction and training, enabling the model to reason from scientific evidence. Third, it performs task-specific decoding to support a broad range of applications, including property prediction, spectrum-to-molecular generation, protein site and structure prediction, and scientific image generation and editing. S1-Omni is trained on S1-Omni-Corpus, which covers 200 scientific tasks and contains millions of reasoning samples, and is evaluated on over 60 scientific benchmarks. It outperforms GPT-5.5 and Gemini-3.1-Pro on most benchmarks and matches or surpasses domain-specific models on several benchmarks. Overall, S1-Omni provides a practical path toward unified scientific modeling.
Jiahao Zhao, Junyi Liu, Lifeng Xu +19
Jul 13, 2026cs.AI

Omni-Decision: A Progressive Evidence-State Agent System for Omni-Modal QA

Omni-modal evidence-seeking QA requires agents to answer questions whose evidence is sparsely distributed across videos, audio, images, web pages, and computation results. Existing agentic multimodal systems often leave evidence in scratchpads, tool trajectories, or free-form histories, making it difficult to track what has been grounded, what remains missing, and when the evidence is sufficient to answer. We propose Omni-Decision, a training-free evidence-state system that turns omni-modal QA into a query-scoped evidence-closure process. For each query, Omni-Decision maintains a structured evidence state containing confirmed evidence, unresolved conflicts, fact and computation dependencies, and open evidence needs. A shared state view conditions planning, evidence acquisition, validation, repair, and finalization. Heterogeneous observations from media, web, computation, and verification modules are normalized, judged, and committed through deterministic state updates. This design enables targeted evidence acquisition, preserves sparse cross-modal cues, and provides inspectable control over repair and stopping. Omni-Decision achieves 45.6% accuracy on OmniGAIA and 58.3% on WorldSense, improving over the baselines by +27.3 and +30.2 percentage points, respectively. No-state ablations and trajectory audits further support the role of explicit evidence-state control in multi-step omni-modal evidence seeking.
Ming Ma, Yi Zhu, Yiran Zhong +6
Jul 7, 2026cs.RO

EAGOR: Embodied Reasoning in Omni-direction

Omni-directional (360°) cameras provide embodied agents with a holistic view of their surroundings, making them suited for directional reasoning in tasks such as navigation and object search. Existing Vision Language Models (VLMs) project 360° observations to 2D equirectangular projection (ERP) images and process them using architectures designed for perspective images. However, they ignore the spherical nature of 360° observations, where each pixel represents a viewing direction relative to the agent. Consequently, their direction estimates often become inconsistent under camera view transformations caused by agent motion. This limitation is particularly critical for map-free navigation, where the agent must continuously estimate the target direction in its egocentric frame. We propose EAGOR, a training-free, geometry-aware framework for embodied 360° directional reasoning. Instead of predicting target directions as ERP image coordinates, EAGOR formulates directional reasoning as recursive Bayesian estimation directly on the sphere. It maintains a continuous belief over target directions and propagates it equivariantly under agent motion without training the backbone VLMs. To achieve this, we introduce the Spherical Harmonic Belief Field (SH-BF), whose spherical harmonic representation provides a globally defined, rotation-aware basis for directional estimation on the spherical manifold. This formulation eliminates ERP seam discontinuities, latitude distortions, and interpolation errors. We evaluate EAGOR on two benchmark datasets and real-world experiments with a legged robot across directional reasoning tasks. EAGOR consistently outperforms existing methods, achieving average relative gains of +34.4% and +45.6% on HOS and OSR-Bench, respectively, while improving navigation success by +14.6%, reducing step count by 17.7%, and lowering mean angular error by 24.5%.
Shriram Damodaran, Soumyaratna Debnath, Yan Wu +2
Jul 6, 2026cs.CV

Light-Omni: Reflex over Reasoning in Agentic Video Understanding with Long-Term Memory

Agentic video understanding equips models with long-term memory to autonomously process and respond to continuous, long-horizon multimodal streams. However, advanced video agents often rely on ``detective-style'' iterative reasoning for action control (e.g., search\mathtt{search}) and evidence aggregation, incurring prohibitive costs and latency. We argue that such heavy reasoning primarily compensates for the lack of global context and semantic misalignment in retrieval. This paper introduces Light-Omni, a multimodal agent framework for reflexive and lightweight video understanding. It achieves this through dual contextual states that instantly build the required context in a single forward pass. First, we maintain a global state, a finite-sized multimodal script continuously consolidated from episodic memory, serving as the global context for Light-Omni. Through hierarchical merging, it preserves recent details while summarizing past events. Second, conditioned on this global context, we generate a parametric latent state that directly drives autonomous actions and produces retrieval embeddings, with minimal latency. Benefiting from this coupled design, Light-Omni achieves semantically aligned retrieval and reflexive responses while avoiding iterative reasoning. Extensive experiments validate the effectiveness of Light-Omni across multiple video benchmarks. Notably, it outperforms M3-Agent with an average 2.4% accuracy gain, a 12.1×\times speedup, and a 2.6×\times improvement in GPU memory efficiency. Furthermore, it serves as a memory system to enhance both the performance and efficiency of existing MLLMs. Project page: https://clare-nie.github.io/Light-Omni.
Chang Nie, Jiaju Wei, Junlan Feng +2
Jul 4, 2026cs.LG

Omni-Sleep: A Sleep Foundation Model via Hierarchical Contrastive Learning of CNS-ANS Dynamics

Sleep physiology arises from the coordinated dynamics of the central nervous system (CNS) and autonomic nervous system (ANS), as reflected by multimodal polysomnography signals including EEG, EOG, EMG, ECG, and respiration. However, existing sleep foundation models often fuse heterogeneous biosignals in a topology-agnostic manner, overlooking their physiological organization. We introduce Omni-Sleep, a sleep foundation model that uses the CNS/ANS partition as a physiological prior for topology-constrained representation learning. Omni-Sleep learns structured representations through three objectives: intra-system consistency, which captures shared subsystem-level factors within neural and cardio-respiratory signals; inter-system synchronization, which aligns subsystem trajectories to model brain--body dynamics; and latent-space masked temporal modeling, which captures long-horizon sleep dynamics. Pre-trained on over 100,000 hours of multi-center multimodal PSG data, Omni-Sleep is evaluated on sleep staging and multi-disease classification. Across datasets and modality-ablation settings, Omni-Sleep outperforms strong foundation-model baselines, showing improved label efficiency, cross-dataset generalization, and robustness to missing modalities. These results highlight the value of physiological hierarchy for generalizable sleep representation learning. Code is available at https://github.com/AutoBrain-sleep/OmniSleep.
Zhoujie Hou, Song Wang, Kexin Lou +3
Jun 29, 2026cs.CV

OmniCoT: A Benchmark for Global and Multi-Step Panoramic Reasoning

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated promising spatial reasoning capabilities, while these abilities remain underexplored in the emerging visual modality of panoramic imagery. The full 360°×\times180° field of view of panoramas essentially supports complex global multi-step reasoning, which is also the fundamental advantage of panoramas in applications such as embodied intelligence. However, existing panoramic benchmarks largely focus on simplistic queries that rely on local cues or single-/few-step reasoning, thereby ignoring the fundamental advantage of panoramas and failing to fully exploit their potential. To address this gap, we introduce OmniCoT, a panoramic spatial reasoning suite designed to enable MLLMs to use global evidence and perform multi-step inference across viewpoints. It includes OmniCoT-B (6.7K data) for evaluation, which measures both answer accuracy and reasoning quality, OmniCoT-Real (1K data) as a manually annotated real-world subset to quantify the Sim-to-Real gap. For training, OmniCoT-T (14.3K data) is purpose-built with structured stepwise Chain-of-Thought annotations that explicitly link intermediate reasoning steps to panoramic evidence. Based on OmniCoT-T, we introduce OmniCoT-R1 and adopt a two-stage training strategy tailored to the geometrically complex panoramic space, where Supervised Fine-tuning (SFT) anchors reasoning to panoramic evidence (e.g., bearings, proximity) and GRPO penalizes geometrically incoherent paths to consolidate global 360° spatial consistency. Through OmniCoT, we aim to recalibrate the difficulty of panoramic spatial reasoning to better align with the intrinsic capabilities of panoramic imagery, thereby fostering meaningful progress in this research area.
Haocong He, Chenfei Liao, Zichen Wen +13
Jun 23, 2026cs.CV

S1-Omni-Image: A Unified Model for Scientific Image Understanding, Generation, and Editing

We present S1-Omni-Image, an open-weight unified multimodal model for scientific image understanding, generation, and editing. Unlike general-purpose image generation models, scientific image tasks require not only high-fidelity synthesis, but also robust understanding of scientific semantics, structural relations, domain knowledge, and task intent. To this end, S1-Omni-Image builds on the scientific multimodal reasoning backbone S1-VL-32B and couples its understanding capability with an image generation module under a unified think-before-generate paradigm. Given a user instruction, the model first produces a task-oriented reasoning trace, a textual answer, and a task special token; their hidden states are then injected into the generation module to condition image generation or editing. S1-Omni-Image supports scientific image understanding, generation, and editing in a unified framework. For generation, it focuses on scientific illustrations and text rendering, including logical diagrams, relational comparisons, data charts, and realistic scientific visualizations. For editing, it casts segmentation and other domain-specific vision tasks as native image editing problems, enabling multi-turn illustration editing, medical and geographic image segmentation, medical image translation, and scientific image super-resolution. We construct SciGenEdit, a 314K-sample training dataset, and release the model weights, inference code, and SciGenEdit-10K. Experiments show that S1-Omni-Image substantially improves scientific image generation and editing while preserving the scientific image understanding capability inherited from S1-VL-32B. It outperforms open-source models on GenExam and TechImage-Bench, achieves state-of-the-art results on four editing benchmarks including MSD, cigRockSEM, SynthRAD2025, and IXI, and maintains stable performance on scientific image understanding evaluations.
Qingxiao Li, Zikai Wang, Qingli Wang +1
Jun 16, 2026cs.NI

OmniPlan: An Adaptive Framework for Timely and Near-Optimal Network Planning Optimization

Network planning optimization is a fundamental problem across diverse domains, including transportation systems, communication networks, and power grids. It requires simultaneous optimization of multiple competing objectives under complex constraints. Existing network planning optimization frameworks rely on mixed integer programming (MIP) solvers, heuristics, and deep reinforcement learning (DRL) models to compute planning decisions. However, they lack effective adaptability to diverse and dynamic user intents, thus leading to the trade-off between execution time and optimality. In this paper, we propose OmniPlan, an adaptive framework that achieves both timeliness and near-optimality in network planning optimization. To achieve the adaptability lacking in existing solutions, OmniPlan employs a large language model (LLM)-based interpreter to convert heterogeneous natural-language intents into a unified and quantifiable user-preference vector. Then it employs a mixture-of-experts architecture that integrates MIP solvers, heuristics, and DRL models as specialized experts, where OmniPlan adapts to diverse intents by dynamically selecting timely and near-optimal experts. Finally, it incorporates a DRL-based expert configuration module that fine-tunes optimization objective weights to align planning decisions with user-specific preferences. We evaluate OmniPlan with a representative real-world workload, i.e., distributed machine learning (ML), where we leverage OmniPlan to offload a wide spectrum of ML inference tasks, e.g., decision trees, SVM, naive Bayes, XGBoost, and random forests, onto a network of hardware devices. Our experiments on a real-world testbed indicate that OmniPlan achieves near-optimal and low-execution-time offloading for real-world ML inference tasks, reducing latency by up to 97.8% and network device resource consumption by up to 11.5%.
Longlong Zhu, Jiashuo Yu, Zedi Chen +12
Jun 14, 2026cs.CV

OmniOPSD: Rationale-Privileged On-Policy Self-Distillation for Affective Computing

Reinforcement learning for multimodal large language models (MLLMs) is often hindered by severe reward sparsity in complex reasoning tasks. This challenge is particularly pronounced in human-centered scenarios involving states, emotions, intentions, and behaviors, where heterogeneous multimodal signals and subjective human factors make high-quality chain-of-thought (CoT) annotations expensive and difficult to obtain. Although many multimodal datasets provide expert-annotated ground-truth labels, directly using these labels for supervised fine-tuning may encourage shortcut learning in multimodal perception and provides limited transparency for safety-critical human--AI interaction. To address these limitations, we propose OmniOPSD, a Rationale-Privileged On-Policy Self-Distillation framework that uses frontier-generated rationales as teacher-side privileged evidence rather than student imitation targets. OmniOPSD uses frontier-generated evidence-aware rationales only as training-time privileged evidence context for a local teacher. The student samples its own rollout from the original multimodal input, while the rationale-privileged teacher scores the same tokens and provides dense token-level supervision. Thus, the student learns on its own trajectory distribution without directly imitating frontier-model completions, and inference requires no labels, rationales, CoT annotations, or closed-source model access. Experiments on MER-UniBench show that OmniOPSD achieves state-of-the-art performance with an average score of 84.1984.19, and ablations further support the value of rationale-privileged teacher guidance.
Zebang Cheng, Shuimu Chen, Boxue Yang +7
Jun 9, 2026eess.AS

Spatial-Omni: Spatial Audio Understanding Integration in Multimodal LLMs via FOA Encoding

Recent multimodal large language models mainly process audio as monaural signals, thereby discarding the spatial cues contained in spatial audio for sound localization, spatial relation reasoning, and spatial scene understanding. We propose Spatial-Omni, a lightweight method that implements SO-Encoder to inject First-Order Ambisonics (FOA) spatial audio into existing Omni LLMs as an independent modality, without modifying their original audio encoders. SO-Encoder provides spatial tokens with limited additional context cost and improves spatial audio understanding through efficient staged training. To support training and evaluation, we construct SO-Dataset, SO-QA, and SO-Bench from open-source data, real recordings, and simulations, containing 400K FOA spatial audio clips and 2.1M spatial question answering pairs. SO-Bench covers 16 spatial audio understanding subtasks, including basic detection and location estimation, spatial relation understanding, and complex spatial reasoning. Experiments show that Spatial-Omni outperforms existing open-source Large Audio-Language Models (LALMs) and Omni LLM models on spatial audio understanding tasks while retaining a reasonable level of general audio understanding. Code and data are available at https://github.com/dieKarotte/Spatial-Omni.
Zhiyuan Zhu, Yixuan Chen, Yiwen Shao +13
Jun 8, 2026q-bio.NC

Discovering Functionally Selective Brain Regions with a Deep Topographic Multimodal Model

Nearby neurons in cortex share similar response profiles, producing systematic spatial organization across sensory and cognitive systems. Recent topographic models reproduce aspects of this structure but remain unimodal and spatially constrain each layer separately, yielding fragmented maps that capture neither the contiguity of cortical processing streams nor their integration across modalities. We introduce Topo-Omni, a topographic multimodal model in which visual, auditory, and language/cognitive processing share a single contiguous in-silico sheet. Built by fine-tuning a pretrained foundation model with a spatial smoothness objective, this architecture develops clusters across modalities that are consistent with human neuroimaging, from sensory to cognitive systems. Driving or suppressing a cluster selectively biases or impairs perception, paralleling human intervention studies. Finally, we use our model to screen for novel clusters in-silico and discover new natural landscape and animal networks which we validate in human data. A single spatial principle thus organizes representations across modalities and processing stages, yielding testable hypotheses about cortical organization.
Badr AlKhamissi, Johannes Mehrer, Lara Marinov +3
Jun 3, 2026cs.RO

OSCAR: Omni-Embodiment Action-Conditioned World Model for Robotics

We present OSCAR, a precise action-conditioned video world model that generalizes across different robot embodiments and enables robot policy evaluation. Existing video world models face three main challenges for real-world robot evaluation: limited scenario diversity in current robot training datasets, imprecise action following, and poor generalization across embodiments for broad adoption. We tackle these challenges from two perspectives. At its core is a large-scale standardized data pipeline that curates, filters, and deduplicates broad robotics and egocentric human datasets, yielding a clean joint-training dataset that spans diverse tasks, scenarios, actions, and robot embodiments. To condition the video model, we adopt 2D kinematic skeleton rendering as a unified conditioning representation that generalizes across different robot arms or even human hands. We finetune the Cosmos-Predict2.5-2B model on a single GH200 GPU. Our model achieves significant improvement on action following, appearance quality, and motion consistency, compared to existing baselines, which either have a much larger model size or require more GPUs. We further deploy OSCAR to evaluate robot policies from RoboArena. Extensive experiments demonstrate the significant correlation between our virtual policy evaluation in OSCAR and real-world evaluation, paving the way for the future where robot policies can be purely evaluated in virtual generated worlds.
Zhuoyuan Wu, Jun Gao
May 31, 2026cs.LG

OmniOPD: Logit-Free On-Policy Distillation via Speculative Verification

On-Policy Distillation (OPD) trains a student model on its own generative trajectories under dense token-level feedback from a stronger teacher, mitigating both the off-policy distribution shift of Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) and the sparse credit assignment of Reinforcement Learning (RL). However, standard OPD faces two coupled limitations. First, it requires direct access to the teacher's token-level logits, excluding a broad class of capable proprietary models from serving as teachers. Second, the token-level logit signal itself is brittle, depending on a narrow overlap of plausible next tokens between teacher and student, and prone to amplifying degenerate patterns such as repetition loops. In this paper, we introduce OmniOPD, a novel framework that addresses both limitations through a logit-free, chunk-level supervision signal. OmniOPD replaces deterministic logit matching with Monte Carlo rollouts that approximate the teacher's local preferences through a continuous semantic similarity metric over multi-token chunks, and concentrates this supervision via a peak-entropy scheduler that audits the student only at its high-uncertainty reasoning forks. A Dirichlet-Multinomial Bayesian prior and a base-model KL anchor further bound the variance of discrete sampling and prevent policy collapse across unaudited tokens. Across competitive benchmarks, OmniOPD surpasses the standard OPD approach by up to +28.64% on math, confirming that chunk-level semantic verification extracts a more reliable learning signal than token-level logit matching, whose high information density is offset by significant noise and brittleness. Furthermore, when paired with stronger black-box teachers such as Claude-4.5-Haiku and Gemini-2.5-Flash, OmniOPD achieves an additional +9.54% relative on math over its open-weight teacher counterpart, advancing the student past the performance of self-exploratory RL.
Yuhang Zhou, Lizhu Zhang, Yifan Wu +5
May 28, 2026cs.CV

OmniCD: A Foundational Framework for Remote Sensing Image Change Detection Guided by Multimodal Semantics

Change detection (CD) in remote sensing is vital for applications such as urban monitoring and disaster assessment, yet traditional methods struggle with generalization across diverse scenarios. We present OmniCD, a foundational framework that unifies and enhances remote sensing CD through multimodal semantic guidance. OmniCD incorporates image and text prompts -- such as textual descriptions, semantic maps, and geospatial metadata -- into a unified architecture, supporting tasks from binary CD to zero-shot semantic change understanding. The framework integrates a hierarchical scene retrieval module and a change detection module, reinforced by a style disentanglement mechanism for improved cross-domain robustness. We further introduce RSITCD, a large-scale multimodal dataset with 300K+ annotated image-text pairs. Extensive experiments show that OmniCD achieves state-of-the-art performance across benchmarks, demonstrating strong adaptability and setting a solid foundation for general-purpose CD systems in remote sensing.
Chenhao Sun
May 28, 2026cs.AI

Mind-Omni: A Unified Multi-Task Framework for Brain-Vision-Language Modeling via Discrete Diffusion

Modeling the interplay between external stimuli and internal neural representations is a pivotal research area for Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs). A major limitation of prior work is the prevailing paradigm of specialized, single-task models, which curtails versatility and neglects inter-task synergies. To address this, we propose Mind-Omni, the first versatile framework that unifies seven distinct encoding and decoding tasks through a discrete diffusion paradigm. At its core is a novel Brain Tokenizer that transforms heterogeneous, continuous brain signals into standardized, discrete tokens. This enables direct, token-level interactions for mutual understanding and generation between any two or more modalities within a shared semantic space. To unlock advanced reasoning capabilities, we further curate a specialized Brain Question Answering (BQA) instruction-tuning dataset. Our model not only establishes a new state-of-the-art among multi-task unified frameworks but also provides strong evidence for multi-task synergy. By demonstrating performance competitive with, and at times superior to, larger specialized models, our work offers a powerful new paradigm for neural modeling and paves the way for foundation models of neural activity. The code is publicly available at https://github.com/ReedOnePeck/Mind-Omni.
Yizhuo Lu, Changde Du, Qingyu Shi +5
May 26, 2026cs.CV

O-MARC: Omni Memory-Augmented Compression Distillation for Efficient Video Understanding

Omnimodal large language models enable unified audio video understanding, but long joint token sequences make inference costly, and existing benchmarks do not fully isolate audio visual association in noisy user generated videos. We introduce UGC-AVQA, a public UGC benchmark with 1,000 videos and 4,816 QA pairs, where an audio removal test ensures that benchmark questions require both acoustic and visual evidence. To reduce inference cost, we propose OMAC, a training free plug in compression method that preserves salient visual memory and temporally grounded audio anchors. To further make compact models robust to compressed inputs, we introduce O-MARC, a compression distillation framework for learning with memory compressed multimodal contexts. On Qwen2.5-Omni-3B, O-MARC improves the average score across four benchmarks to 45.8, outperforming full token inference at 44.1 and OmniZip at 41.0. OMAC also keeps inference efficient, reducing latency by 34.6% (1.53×\times speedup) and memory by 34.7% compared with full token inference.
Peiran Wu, Yunze Liu, Chi-Hao Wu +2
May 26, 2026cs.CV

OmniInteract: Benchmarking Real-World Streaming Interaction for Real-Time Omnimodal Assistants

We introduce OmniInteract, a streaming benchmark for real-time omnimodal large language models evaluated through native online inference over audio-visual streams. Unlike offline video understanding or text-prompted streaming QA, OmniInteract preserves the original audio-visual stream and requires models to process it online, without access to future content. User queries and ambient sounds are embedded in the audio track, requiring models to detect multimodal triggers, decide when to respond, and answer while the stream unfolds. OmniInteract contains 250 videos with 1,430 temporally grounded response slots: 1,062 1Q1A slots across real-time, proactive, and nested scenarios, and 368 1QnA slots for continuous task monitoring and step guidance. Each slot includes a trigger, response window, and target answer. We evaluate response correctness, timing, invalid outputs, interruption handling, and context continuity using Interaction-Aware Quality-Timeliness F1, Interruption Diagnostic Suite, and Nested Chain Completion Score. Experiments show that current models remain weak in streaming interaction, with the best overall IA-QTF1 reaching only 0.368 and the best 1QnA IA-QTF1 only 0.052. Further study on mathematical reasoning in full-duplex settings shows that offline capability does not necessarily transfer to online interaction. Code and datasets will be made publicly accessible at https://github.com/Lucky-Lance/OmniInteract.
Xudong Lu, Xueying Li, Annan Wang +8
May 19, 2026cs.LG

OmniISR: A Unified Framework for Centralized and Federated Learning via Intermediate Supervision and Regularization

The global deployment of edge intelligence operates across heterogeneous legal frameworks. While some regions permit centralized learning (CL) via cloud data aggregation, others enforce strict data localization, necessitating federated learning (FL). This operational dichotomy introduces two incompatible optimization regimes (i.e., unbiased global gradients yet coupled with internal covariate shift in CL versus biased, drift-prone local updates in FL), resulting in that any naive integration of the two lacks rigorous theoretical guarantees. To fill this gap, we propose OmniISR, a unified framework that fuses pure CL, pure FL, and hybrid CL-FL training modes via equipping intermediate supervision and regularization (ISR) signals at multiple hidden layers. Specifically, we propose (i) to use mutual-information (MI) as intermediate supervision to align shifting internal covariate in CL and client-drifting representations in FL, and (ii) to adopt negative-entropy (NE) as intermediate regularizer to penalize overconfident prediction, preserve representational uncertainty, and avoid device-specific collapse. On the theory side, we derive (i) a unified, ISR-agnostic, and non-asymptotic O(1/sqrt(T)) convergence bound that shows the introduced ISR does not violate standard SGD convergence, (ii) a federated drift-bound that quantifies the ISR-reduced client drift, (iii) a gradient-alignment guarantee that ensures non-conflicting CL and FL updates under mild bias, and (iv) an explicit escape-time bound that indicates that CL-FL hybrid mixing enlarges effective stochasticity and accelerates escape from strict saddles. Extensive experiments demonstrate that OmniISR consistently improves model performance in both centralized and federated paradigms, reduces the CL-FL gap by 22.60%, and yields 37/48 paired metric wins across multiple FL algorithms.
Wei-Bin Kou, Guangxu Zhu, Ming Tang +4
May 18, 2026cs.AI

Visualizing the Invisible: Generative Visual Grounding Empowers Universal EEG Understanding in MLLMs

Leveraging the universal representations of pre-trained LLMs and MLLMs offers a promising path toward brain foundation models. However, visually-evoked EEG datasets remain scarce, leading existing methods to align neural signals mainly with abstract text, a lossy translation that may discard fine-grained perceptual information encoded in brain activity. We propose Generative Visual Grounding (GVG), a framework that visualizes the invisible by using an EEG-to-image generative model as a visual translator. Instead of forcing EEG into text alone, GVG hallucinates instance-specific proxy images for non-visual EEG, providing structured visual contexts that allow MLLMs to exploit their visual priors for clinical-state interpretation. We validate this idea on two MLLM backbones, GVG-X-Omni and GVG-Janus. Image-only alignment is already competitive: the lightweight GVG-X-Omni matches 1.7B-parameter text-aligned baselines while tuning only 170M parameters on a frozen 7B backbone. We further extend GVG-Janus with trimodal Image+Text alignment, where text supplies categorical semantic anchors and visual proxies enrich neural representations with perceptual details. Experiments show consistent gains in EEG understanding and visual generation, suggesting visual proxy grounding as an effective complement to textual alignment.
Jun-Yu Pan, Yansen Wang, Enze Zhang +3
May 17, 2026cs.CV

Omni-Customizer: End-to-End MultiModal Customization for Joint Audio-Video Generation

The landscape of joint audio and video generation has been fundamentally transformed by the advent of powerful foundation models. Despite these strides, achieving cohesive multimodal customization for the simultaneous preservation of visual identities and vocal timbres across multiple interacting subjects remains largely underexplored. To bridge this gap, we present Omni-Customizer, an end-to-end framework targeted at the precise binding and seamless fusion of multimodal identity information. Specifically, we introduce an Omni-Context Fusion (OCF) module that effectively enriches the base textual prompt with dense, multimodal identity cues, along with a Masked TTS Cross-Attention (MTP-CA) mechanism explicitly designed to prevent the severe "speech leakage" problem. Within this architecture, we propose Semantic-Anchored Multimodal RoPE (SA-MRoPE) to anchor visual and audio reference tokens, along with TTS embeddings, to their corresponding semantic descriptions, enabling structured multimodal fusion and robust identity binding. Furthermore, we devise a comprehensive training strategy that incorporates interleaved audio-video scheduling to rapidly adapt the audio branch to multilingual scenarios without degrading foundational priors, and a progressive in-pair to cross-pair curriculum to facilitate the learning of high-level and robust identity features. Extensive experiments demonstrate that Omni-Customizer achieves state-of-the-art performance in dual-modal customized generation, excelling across visual identity similarity, timbre consistency, precise audio-video synchronization, and overall video-audio fidelity.
Yuheng Chen, Qingdong He, Teng Hu +4
May 17, 2026cs.CV

Omni-DuplexEval: Evaluating Real-time Duplex Omni-modal Interaction

Real-time duplex interaction is essential for multimodal AI systems operating in real-world scenarios, where models must continuously process streaming inputs and respond at appropriate moments. However, most existing multimodal large language models (MLLMs) are evaluated in offline settings, where the entire video input is processed before any response is generated. While recent work has started to explore real-time duplex MLLMs, there is still no comprehensive benchmark or automatic evaluation method for this setting. To address this gap, we propose Omni-DuplexEval, a benchmark for systematically evaluating real-time duplex interaction. The benchmark consists of two complementary scenarios: (1) Real-Time Description, which evaluates the ability to generate continuous, time-aligned responses that track evolving multimodal inputs, and (2) Proactive Reminder, which evaluates the ability to identify salient events and respond at appropriate moments. Omni-DuplexEval contains 660 videos with fine-grained, human-annotated labels and precise temporal metadata, spanning 9 tasks grounded in real-world scenarios, where all questions are formulated as open-ended queries. We further introduce an automatic evaluation framework based on LLM-as-a-Judge, which enables systematic assessment by jointly evaluating response-content alignment and response timing through timestamp-aware and sequential reasoning, achieving strong alignment with human judgments. Experiments on state-of-the-art duplex MLLMs reveal substantial limitations. The best-performing model achieves only 39.6% overall, while scoring only 20.0% on Proactive Reminder. Our analysis identifies two key challenges: models struggle to balance timely responses with coherent, holistic content generation, and they often fail to determine both when to respond and what to produce. We hope our work facilitates further progress in MLLMs.
Chaoqun He, Mingyang Xiang, Yingjing Xu +5
May 14, 2026cs.CV

H-OmniStereo: Zero-Shot Omnidirectional Stereo Matching with Heading-Aligned Normal Priors

Stereo matching on top-bottom equirectangular images provides an effective framework for full-surround perception, as vertically aligned epipolar lines enable the use of advanced perspective stereo architectures that are largely driven by large-scale datasets and monocular priors. However, the performance of such adaptations is severely limited by the scarcity of omnidirectional stereo datasets and the degradation of perspective monocular priors under spherical distortions. To address these challenges, we propose H-OmniStereo, a zero-shot omnidirectional stereo matching framework. First, we construct high-quality synthetic dataset comprising over 2.8 million top-bottom equirectangular stereo pairs to scale up training. Second, we introduce an equirectangular monocular normal estimator, specifically operating in a heading-aligned coordinate system. Beyond providing distortion-robust and cross-view-consistent geometric priors for establishing reliable correspondences in stereo matching, this design boosts training efficiency and accommodates train-test FoV mismatches. Extensive experiments show that our approach achieves higher accuracy than existing methods on out-of-domain datasets and successfully generalizes to real-world consumer camera setups using a single model. The model and dataset will be released at https://github.com/JIANG-CX/H-OmniStereo.
Chenxing Jiang, Zhe Tong, Pusen Gao +5
May 11, 2026cs.CV

Omni-Persona: Systematic Benchmarking and Improving Omnimodal Personalization

While multimodal large language models have advanced across text, image, and audio, personalization research has remained primarily vision-language, with unified omnimodal benchmarking that jointly covers text, image, and audio still limited, and lacking the methodological rigor to account for absent-persona scenarios or systematic grounding studies. We introduce Omni-Persona, the first comprehensive benchmark for omnimodal personalization. We formalize the task as cross-modal routing over the \emph{Persona Modality Graph}, encompassing 4 task groups and 18 fine-grained tasks across 750{\sim}750 items. To rigorously diagnose grounding behavior, we propose \emph{Calibrated Accuracy (Cal\mathrm{Cal})}, which jointly rewards correct grounding and appropriate abstention, incorporating absent-persona queries within a unified evaluation framework. On our dedicated experiments, three diagnostic findings emerge: (i) open-source models show a consistent audio-vs-visual grounding gap that RLVR partially narrows via dense rule-based supervision; (ii) answerable recall and parameter scale are incomplete diagnostics, since strong recall can coexist with absent-persona hallucination and larger models do not always achieve higher Cal\mathrm{Cal}, exposing calibration as a separate evaluation axis; and (iii) SFT is bounded by the difficulty of constructing annotated ground-truth supervision at scale, while RLVR generalizes more consistently through outcome-level verifiable feedback yet drifts toward conservative behavior and lower generation quality under our reward design. Omni-Persona thus serves as a diagnostic framework that surfaces the pitfalls of omnimodal personalization, guiding future post-training and reward design.
Yeongtak Oh, Dongwook Lee, Sangkwon Park +2
May 9, 2026cs.RO

Omni-scale Learning-based Sequential Decision Framework for Order Fulfillment of Tote-handling Robotic Systems

Driven by the rapid expansion of e-commerce and small-batch production, the size of the intralogistics load unit of finished goods, semi-finished goods and raw materials is steadily shrinking. Totes are gradually replacing pallets as the primary handling and storage container. This shift has propelled tote-handling robotic systems to the forefront of automation order fulfillment centers. The order-fulfillment decisions of tote-handling robotic systems share a common order-tote-robot sequential decision-making nature. Existing studies primarily focus on decision mechanisms tailored to particular systems, making it difficult to generalize or transfer them to other contexts. We propose an Omni-scale Learning-based Sequential Decision Framework for Order Fulfillment of Tote-handling Robotic Systems (OLSF-TRS), a generalized and scalable sequential decision framework that combines structured combinatorial optimization with multi-agent reinforcement learning to coordinate order,tote, and robot decisions. On small-scale tote-handling robotic systems, OLSF-TRS achieves near-optimal performance with average optimality gaps below 3.5% across two distinct system configurations. In large-scale scenarios, OLSF-TRS consistently outperforms heuristic baselines across two different system types, reducing total tote movements by 8-12% and over 30% compared to SOTA rule-based approaches, while maintaining real-time responsiveness. These improvements translate into tangible operational benefits, including cost reduction, lower energy consumption, and enhanced throughput stability. The proposed framework delivers an efficient and unified order fulfillment decision-making framework for widely deployed tote-handling robotic systems,supporting high-quality order fulfillment in both e-commerce and industrial logistics sectors.
Jiaxin Liu, Peng Yang, Yuping Li +1
May 7, 2026cs.CV

X-OmniClaw Technical Report: A Unified Mobile Agent for Multimodal Understanding and Interaction

Inspired by the development of OpenClaw, there is a growing demand for mobile-based personal agents capable of handling complex and intuitive interactions. In this technical report, we introduce X-OmniClaw, a unified mobile agent designed for multimodal understanding and interaction in the Android ecosystem. This unified architecture of perception, memory, and action enables the agent to handle complex mobile tasks with high contextual awareness. Specifically, Omni Perception provides a unified multimodal ingress pipeline that integrates UI states, real-world visual contexts, and speech inputs, leveraging a temporal alignment module to decompose raw data into structured multimodal intent representations. Omni Memory leverages multimodal memory optimization to enhance personalized intelligence by integrating runtime working memory for task continuity with long-term personal memory distilled from local data, enabling highly context-aware and personalized interactions. Finally, Omni Action employs a hybrid grounding strategy that combines structural XML metadata with visual perception for robust interaction. Through Behavior Cloning and Trajectory Replay, the system captures user navigation as reusable skills, enabling precise direct-access execution. Demonstrations across diverse scenarios show that X-OmniClaw effectively enhances interaction efficiency and task reliability, providing a practical architectural blueprint for the next generation of mobile-native personal assistants.
Xiaoming Ren, Ru Zhen, Chao Li +11
May 2, 2026cs.AI

Valley3: Scaling Omni Foundation Models for E-commerce

In this work, we present Valley3, an omni multimodal large language model (MLLM) developed for diverse global e-commerce tasks, with unified understanding and reasoning capabilities across text, images, video, and audio. A key feature of Valley3 is its native multilingual audio capability for e-commerce, developed by extending vision-language models to better support crucial audio-visual tasks, particularly in short-video scenarios. To achieve this, we carefully design a four-stage omni e-commerce continued pre-training pipeline, through which Valley3 progressively acquires audio understanding, cross-modal instruction-following, e-commerce domain knowledge, and long-context reasoning capabilities, ultimately evolving into an omni model for diverse e-commerce scenarios. Then, we further improve Valley3 through post-training to encourage long-chain reasoning with controllable reasoning modes, enabling one non-thinking mode and three distinct levels of thinking, thereby balancing inference efficiency in simple scenarios with deep reasoning for complex applications. Moreover, we equip Valley3 with agentic search capabilities to proactively invoke search tools and acquire task-relevant information for e-commerce deep research tasks. To comprehensively assess the capabilities of Valley3, we construct an omni e-commerce benchmark spanning 6 tasks. Experimental results show that Valley3 consistently outperforms strong baselines on our in-house and open-source e-commerce benchmarks, while remaining competitive on general-domain benchmarks. Our code and model weights are available at https://github.com/bytedance/Valley.
Zeyu Chen, Guanghao Zhou, Min Yang +6
Apr 30, 2026cs.RO

OmniRobotHome: A Multi-Camera Home Platform for Real-Time Human-Robot Interaction

Robots in homes must continuously sense the people around them, yet most prior work relies on limited or offline perception. We argue that perception quality is the dominant factor governing what interaction is achievable at home, and build a testbed to test this claim. OmniRobotHome instruments a furnished home with 48 hardware-synchronized cameras and three manipulators in a unified world frame, delivering real-time markerless full-body human pose, 6D object pose, anticipatory motion forecasting, and a social avatar agent that converses with residents. Using the platform, we treat perception quality as an experimental variable across safety, human assistance, and social interaction, and find that interaction quality degrades measurably as real-timeness, granularity, coverage, accuracy, forecasting, or memory is weakened. All code and data will be released.
Junyoung Lee, Inhee Lee, Sookwan Han +9
Apr 27, 2026cs.LG

Nemotron 3 Nano Omni: Efficient and Open Multimodal Intelligence

We introduce Nemotron 3 Nano Omni, the latest model in the Nemotron multimodal series and the first to natively support audio inputs alongside text, images, and video. Nemotron 3 Nano Omni delivers consistent accuracy improvements over its predecessor, Nemotron Nano V2 VL, across all modalities, enabled by advances in architecture, training data and recipes. In particular, Nemotron 3 delivers leading results in real-world document understanding, long audio-video comprehension, and agentic computer use. Built on the highly efficient Nemotron 3 Nano 30B-A3B backbone, Nemotron 3 Nano Omni further incorporates innovative multimodal token-reduction techniques to deliver substantially lower inference latency and higher throughput than other models of similar size. We are releasing model checkpoints in BF16, FP8, and FP4 formats, along with portions of the training data and codebase to facilitate further research and development.
NVIDIA, :, Amala Sanjay Deshmukh +216
Apr 23, 2026cs.CV

Context Unrolling in Omni Models

We present Omni, a unified multimodal model natively trained on diverse modalities, including text, images, videos, 3D geometry, and hidden representations. We find that such training enables Context Unrolling, where the model explicitly reasons across multiple modal representations before producing predictions. This process enables the model to aggregate complementary information across heterogeneous modalities, facilitating a more faithful approximation of the shared multimodal knowledge manifold and improving downstream reasoning fidelity. As a result, Omni achieves strong performance on both multimodal generation and understanding benchmarks, while demonstrating advanced multimodal reasoning capabilities, including in-context generation of text, image, video, and 3D geometry.
Ceyuan Yang, Zhijie Lin, Yang Zhao +16
Feb 6, 2026cs.CV

Ex-Omni: Enabling 3D Facial Animation Generation for Omni-modal Large Language Models

Omni-modal large language models (OLLMs) aim to unify multimodal understanding and generation, yet extending them to jointly produce speech and 3D facial animation remains largely underexplored. A key challenge is the mismatch between the discrete semantic reasoning of LLMs and the dense temporal dynamics required for 3D facial motion. We propose Expressive Omni (Ex-Omni), a framework that augments OLLMs with speech-accompanied 3D facial animation. Ex-Omni decouples semantic reasoning from temporal generation through a speech-unit generator with blendshape co-supervision and a non-autoregressive blendshape decoder, where speech units provide temporal scaffolding and hidden speech representations carry facially relevant cues. We further introduce a token-as-query gated fusion (TQGF) interface for controlled semantic injection, as well as InstructS2SF-1200K, a 1.2M-sample weakly supervised dataset for speech-accompanied facial animation. Extensive experiments show that Ex-Omni retains competitive speech QA capability while natively generating coordinated text, speech, and 3D facial animation, and approaches the Audio2Face-3D teacher cascade in synchronization and human preference.
Haoyu Zhang, Zhipeng Li, Yiwen Guo +1
Date pendingeess.AS

Omni Interaction Agent Technical Report

In this work, we present Gander, an end-to-end model that unifies omni perception, realtime interaction, and agentic capabilities within a single framework. In contrast to turn-based conventional paradigms, Gander continuously receives streaming inputs across multiple modalities, including video, speech, and text, enabling natural full-duplex interaction in both everyday conversations and complex workflow-oriented agent scenarios. Users can interrupt the model at any time, while the model can also proactively provide intermediate feedback or ask follow up questions. To natively support these capabilities, Gander adopts two key architectural designs: 1) It employs a Cerebellum-Brain collaborative framework, in which the Cerebellum is responsible for realtime interaction and omni conversational capabilities, while the Brain handles complex reasoning and higher-level agentic tasks. The two components interact continuously through tool calling and the agent orchestration runtime. 2) The Cerebellum is built upon a streaming Thinker-Talker architecture, user inputs and model outputs are further flattened into an ordered token stream at the chunk level, providing a unified representation for low latency, continuous interaction. We conduct comprehensive evaluations of Gander across four dimensions: conversational ability, omni understanding, interactive capability, and agentic intelligence. Internal human evaluations demonstrate that Gander maintains the natural and expressive spoken dialogue capabilities of SOTA open source models while achieving competitive performance in omni interaction. Gander also demonstrates robustness in challenging real-world scenarios, including background noise interference, multi-party interactions, and backchannel communication. We release Gander together with its models, code, and data to facilitate further research and development in the community.
Orantqing, Shengpeng Ji, Junlong Tong +19