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Qwen3.5-Omni Technical Report

arXiv:2604.1580489.435 citationsh-index: 1
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This work advances omni-modal AI by scaling to hundreds of billions of parameters and achieving SOTA across diverse audio-visual benchmarks, benefiting multimodal interaction and understanding applications.

Qwen3.5-Omni scales to hundreds of billions of parameters with 256k context, achieving SOTA on 215 audio/audio-visual tasks and surpassing Gemini-3.1 Pro in key audio benchmarks. It introduces ARIA for stable streaming speech synthesis and demonstrates emergent Audio-Visual Vibe Coding capability.

In this work, we present Qwen3.5-Omni, the latest advancement in the Qwen-Omni model family. Representing a significant evolution over its predecessor, Qwen3.5-Omni scales to hundreds of billions of parameters and supports a 256k context length. By leveraging a massive dataset comprising heterogeneous text-vision pairs and over 100 million hours of audio-visual content, the model demonstrates robust omni-modality capabilities. Qwen3.5-Omni-plus achieves SOTA results across 215 audio and audio-visual understanding, reasoning, and interaction subtasks and benchmarks, surpassing Gemini-3.1 Pro in key audio tasks and matching it in comprehensive audio-visual understanding. Architecturally, Qwen3.5-Omni employs a Hybrid Attention Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) framework for both Thinker and Talker, enabling efficient long-sequence inference. The model facilitates sophisticated interaction, supporting over 10 hours of audio understanding and 400 seconds of 720P video (at 1 FPS). To address the inherent instability and unnaturalness in streaming speech synthesis, often caused by encoding efficiency discrepancies between text and speech tokenizers, we introduce ARIA. ARIA dynamically aligns text and speech units, significantly enhancing the stability and prosody of conversational speech with minimal latency impact. Furthermore, Qwen3.5-Omni expands linguistic boundaries, supporting multilingual understanding and speech generation across 10 languages with human-like emotional nuance. Finally, Qwen3.5-Omni exhibits superior audio-visual grounding capabilities, generating script-level structured captions with precise temporal synchronization and automated scene segmentation. Remarkably, we observed the emergence of a new capability in omnimodal models: directly performing coding based on audio-visual instructions, which we call Audio-Visual Vibe Coding.

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