Qwen3-VL Technical Report
Abstract
We introduce Qwen3-VL, the most capable vision-language model in the Qwen series to date, achieving superior performance across a broad range of multimodal benchmarks. It natively supports interleaved contexts of up to 256K tokens, seamlessly integrating text, images, and video. The model family includes both dense (2B/4B/8B/32B) and mixture-of-experts (30B-A3B/235B-A22B) variants to accommodate diverse latency-quality trade-offs. Qwen3-VL delivers three core pillars: (i) markedly stronger pure-text understanding, surpassing comparable text-only backbones in several cases; (ii) robust long-context comprehension with a native 256K-token window for both text and interleaved multimodal inputs, enabling faithful retention, retrieval, and cross-referencing across long documents and videos; and (iii) advanced multimodal reasoning across single-image, multi-image, and video tasks, demonstrating leading performance on comprehensive evaluations such as MMMU and visual-math benchmarks (e.g., MathVista and MathVision). Architecturally, we introduce three key upgrades: (i) an enhanced interleaved-MRoPE for stronger spatial-temporal modeling across images and video; (ii) DeepStack integration, which effectively leverages multi-level ViT features to tighten vision-language alignment; and (iii) text-based time alignment for video, evolving from T-RoPE to explicit textual timestamp alignment for more precise temporal grounding. Under comparable token budgets and latency constraints, Qwen3-VL achieves superior performance in both dense and Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures. We envision Qwen3-VL serving as a foundational engine for image-grounded reasoning, agentic decision-making, and multimodal code intelligence in real-world workflows.
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@article{arxiv.2511.21631,
title = {Qwen3-VL Technical Report},
author = {Shuai Bai and Yuxuan Cai and Ruizhe Chen and Keqin Chen and Xionghui Chen and Zesen Cheng and Lianghao Deng and Wei Ding and Chang Gao and Chunjiang Ge and Wenbin Ge and Zhifang Guo and Qidong Huang and Jie Huang and Fei Huang and Binyuan Hui and Shutong Jiang and Zhaohai Li and Mingsheng Li and Mei Li and Kaixin Li and Zicheng Lin and Junyang Lin and Xuejing Liu and Jiawei Liu and Chenglong Liu and Yang Liu and Dayiheng Liu and Shixuan Liu and Dunjie Lu and Ruilin Luo and Chenxu Lv and Rui Men and Lingchen Meng and Xuancheng Ren and Xingzhang Ren and Sibo Song and Yuchong Sun and Jun Tang and Jianhong Tu and Jianqiang Wan and Peng Wang and Pengfei Wang and Qiuyue Wang and Yuxuan Wang and Tianbao Xie and Yiheng Xu and Haiyang Xu and Jin Xu and Zhibo Yang and Mingkun Yang and Jianxin Yang and An Yang and Bowen Yu and Fei Zhang and Hang Zhang and Xi Zhang and Bo Zheng and Humen Zhong and Jingren Zhou and Fan Zhou and Jing Zhou and Yuanzhi Zhu and Ke Zhu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.21631},
year = {2025}
}
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42 pages