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Qwen3-Omni Technical Report

Computation and Language 2025-09-23 v1 Artificial Intelligence Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Audio and Speech Processing

Abstract

We present Qwen3-Omni, a single multimodal model that, for the first time, maintains state-of-the-art performance across text, image, audio, and video without any degradation relative to single-modal counterparts. Qwen3-Omni matches the performance of same-sized single-modal models within the Qwen series and excels particularly on audio tasks. Across 36 audio and audio-visual benchmarks, Qwen3-Omni achieves open-source SOTA on 32 benchmarks and overall SOTA on 22, outperforming strong closed-source models such as Gemini-2.5-Pro, Seed-ASR, and GPT-4o-Transcribe. Qwen3-Omni adopts a Thinker-Talker MoE architecture that unifies perception and generation across text, images, audio, and video, yielding fluent text and natural real-time speech. It supports text interaction in 119 languages, speech understanding in 19 languages, and speech generation in 10 languages. To reduce first-packet latency in streaming synthesis, Talker autoregressively predicts discrete speech codecs using a multi-codebook scheme. Leveraging the representational capacity of these codebooks, we replace computationally intensive block-wise diffusion with a lightweight causal ConvNet, enabling streaming from the first codec frame. In cold-start settings, Qwen3-Omni achieves a theoretical end-to-end first-packet latency of 234 ms. To further strengthen multimodal reasoning, we introduce a Thinking model that explicitly reasons over inputs from any modality. Since the research community currently lacks a general-purpose audio captioning model, we fine-tuned Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B to obtain Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B-Captioner, which produces detailed, low-hallucination captions for arbitrary audio inputs. Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B, Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B-Thinking, and Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B-Captioner are publicly released under the Apache 2.0 license.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2509.17765,
  title  = {Qwen3-Omni Technical Report},
  author = {Jin Xu and Zhifang Guo and Hangrui Hu and Yunfei Chu and Xiong Wang and Jinzheng He and Yuxuan Wang and Xian Shi and Ting He and Xinfa Zhu and Yuanjun Lv and Yongqi Wang and Dake Guo and He Wang and Linhan Ma and Pei Zhang and Xinyu Zhang and Hongkun Hao and Zishan Guo and Baosong Yang and Bin Zhang and Ziyang Ma and Xipin Wei and Shuai Bai and Keqin Chen and Xuejing Liu and Peng Wang and Mingkun Yang and Dayiheng Liu and Xingzhang Ren and Bo Zheng and Rui Men and Fan Zhou and Bowen Yu and Jianxin Yang and Le Yu and Jingren Zhou and Junyang Lin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.17765},
  year   = {2025}
}

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