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OmniJigsaw: Enhancing Omni-Modal Reasoning via Modality-Orchestrated Reordering

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2026-04-10 v1

Abstract

To extend the reinforcement learning post-training paradigm to omni-modal models for concurrently bolstering video-audio understanding and collaborative reasoning, we propose OmniJigsaw, a generic self-supervised framework built upon a temporal reordering proxy task. Centered on the chronological reconstruction of shuffled audio-visual clips, this paradigm strategically orchestrates visual and auditory signals to compel cross-modal integration through three distinct strategies: Joint Modality Integration, Sample-level Modality Selection, and Clip-level Modality Masking. Recognizing that the efficacy of such proxy tasks is fundamentally tied to puzzle quality, we design a two-stage coarse-to-fine data filtering pipeline, which facilitates the efficient adaptation of OmniJigsaw to massive unannotated omni-modal data. Our analysis reveals a ``bi-modal shortcut phenomenon'' in joint modality integration and demonstrates that fine-grained clip-level modality masking mitigates this issue while outperforming sample-level modality selection. Extensive evaluations on 15 benchmarks show substantial gains in video, audio, and collaborative reasoning, validating OmniJigsaw as a scalable paradigm for self-supervised omni-modal learning.

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@article{arxiv.2604.08209,
  title  = {OmniJigsaw: Enhancing Omni-Modal Reasoning via Modality-Orchestrated Reordering},
  author = {Yiduo Jia and Muzhi Zhu and Hao Zhong and Mingyu Liu and Yuling Xi and Hao Chen and Bin Qin and Yongjie Yang and Zhenbo Luo and Chunhua Shen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.08209},
  year   = {2026}
}

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Project page: https://aim-uofa.github.io/OmniJigsaw/