Qwen3.5-Omni Technical Report
arXiv cs.CL / 4/20/2026
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Key Points
- Qwen3.5-Omni is introduced as a major upgrade in the Qwen-Omni family, scaling to hundreds of billions of parameters and supporting a 256k context length for stronger omni-modality.
- The model is trained on a large multimodal dataset of heterogeneous text-vision pairs plus over 100 million hours of audio-visual content, and Qwen3.5-Omni-plus reaches state-of-the-art results across 215 audio/audio-visual subtasks.
- Architecturally, it uses a Hybrid Attention Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) design for both Thinker and Talker to enable efficient long-sequence inference and extended interaction capabilities (e.g., 10+ hours of audio understanding and up to 400 seconds of 720P video at 1 FPS).
- To improve streaming speech synthesis stability and naturalness, the report proposes ARIA, which dynamically aligns text and speech units to enhance prosody with minimal added latency.
- The technical report highlights expanded multilingual speech generation across 10 languages with emotional nuance, strong audio-visual grounding (structured, temporally synchronized captions and scene segmentation), and a newly observed “Audio-Visual Vibe Coding” ability to perform coding from audio-visual instructions.
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