English

Agent-Omni: Test-Time Multimodal Reasoning via Model Coordination for Understanding Anything

Artificial Intelligence 2025-11-06 v2 Computation and Language Machine Learning

Abstract

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have shown strong capabilities but remain limited to fixed modality pairs and require costly fine-tuning with large aligned datasets. Building fully omni-capable models that can integrate text, images, audio, and video remains impractical and lacks robust reasoning support. In this paper, we propose an Agent-Omni framework that coordinates existing foundation models through a master-agent system, enabling flexible multimodal reasoning without retraining. The master agent interprets user intent, delegates subtasks to modality-specific agents, and integrates their outputs into coherent responses. Extensive experiments across text, image, audio, video, and omni benchmarks show that Agent-Omni consistently achieves state-of-the-art performance, particularly on tasks requiring complex cross-modal reasoning. Its agent-based design enables seamless integration of specialized foundation models, ensuring adaptability to diverse inputs while maintaining transparency and interpretability. In addition, the framework is modular and easily extensible, allowing future improvements as stronger models become available.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.2511.02834,
  title  = {Agent-Omni: Test-Time Multimodal Reasoning via Model Coordination for Understanding Anything},
  author = {Huawei Lin and Yunzhi Shi and Tong Geng and Weijie Zhao and Wei Wang and Ravender Pal Singh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.02834},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

16 pages, 7 figures, 14 tables. Under Review

R2 v1 2026-07-01T07:21:45.782Z