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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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- 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-con
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RuleSafe-VL creates 2,166 rule-conditioned cases from 93 atomic rules and 92 relations across three policy families to diagnose where VLMs fail at rule-based content moderation reasoning.
TraceAV-Bench is the first benchmark for multi-hop trajectory reasoning over long audio-visual videos, showing top models reach only 51-68% accuracy with substantial room for improvement.
PureDocBench shows document parsing is far from solved, with top models at ~74/100, small specialists competing with large VLMs, and ranking reversals under real degradation.
MedHorizon benchmark reveals current multimodal LLMs achieve only 41.1% accuracy on long medical videos due to failures in sparse evidence retrieval and procedural reasoning.
WindowsWorld benchmark shows leading GUI agents achieve under 21% success on multi-application professional tasks, with failures especially on conditional judgment across three or more apps and inefficient execution.
MM-JudgeBench shows substantial cross-lingual performance variance in 22 LVLM judges, with model size and architecture as poor predictors of multilingual robustness.
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VLM-UnBench demonstrates that prompt-based training-free unlearning in VLMs leaves forget accuracy near the no-instruction baseline except under oracle conditions that reveal the target concept.
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VideoSeeker: Incentivizing Instance-level Video Understanding via Native Agentic Tool Invocation
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MolDeTox: Evaluating Language Model's Stepwise Fragment Editing for Molecular Detoxification
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Learn to Think: Improving Multimodal Reasoning through Vision-Aware Self-Improvement Training
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LDDR: Linear-DPP-Based Dynamic-Resolution Frame Sampling for Video MLLMs
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Personal Visual Context Learning in Large Multimodal Models
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ALAM: Algebraically Consistent Latent Action Model for Vision-Language-Action Models
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Accelerating Compound LLM Training Workloads with Maestro
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CoWorld-VLA: Thinking in a Multi-Expert World Model for Autonomous Driving
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Sens-VisualNews: A Benchmark Dataset for Sensational Image Detection
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SocialDirector: Training-Free Social Interaction Control for Multi-Person Video Generation
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EchoPrune: Interpreting Redundancy as Temporal Echoes for Efficient VideoLLMs
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When to Re-Commit: Temporal Abstraction Discovery for Long-Horizon Vision-Language Reasoning
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ReCoVR: Closing the Loop in Interactive Composed Video Retrieval
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DeltaRubric: Generative Multimodal Reward Modeling via Joint Planning and Verification
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Reinforcing Multimodal Reasoning Against Visual Degradation
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