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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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CiteVQA requires models to cite specific document regions with bounding boxes alongside answers and finds that even the strongest MLLMs frequently cite the wrong region, with top SAA scores of only 76.0 for closed models and 22.5 for open-source ones.
SenseBench is the first physics-based benchmark with 10K+ instances and dual protocols to evaluate VLMs on remote sensing low-level perception and diagnostic description, revealing domain bias and specific failure modes.
EgoMemReason is a new benchmark showing that even the best multimodal models achieve only 39.6% accuracy on reasoning tasks that require integrating sparse evidence across days in egocentric video.
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.
EVE enables verifiable self-evolution of MLLMs by using a Challenger-Solver architecture to generate dynamic executable visual transformations that produce VQA problems with absolute execution-verified ground truth.
VLMs hallucinate by prioritizing contradictory on-screen text over visual content, addressed via the VisualTextTrap benchmark with 6,057 human-validated samples and the VTHM-MoE dual-encoder framework using dimension-specific experts and adaptive routing.
RefereeBench shows that even the strongest video MLLMs reach only around 60% accuracy on multi-sport refereeing tasks and struggle with rule application and temporal grounding.
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.
ScreenParse dataset and ScreenVLM model deliver dense screen parsing that outperforms larger VLMs on PageIoU and transfers to better UI grounding.
GUIGuard-Bench is a new benchmark with annotated GUI screenshots that measures privacy recognition, planning fidelity under protection, and utility impact for trajectory-based GUI agents.
Cultural commonsense in India is mostly regional, with only 39.4% agreement across five regions, and LLMs achieve just 13.4-20.9% accuracy while over-representing North and Central areas.
Molmo2 delivers state-of-the-art open-weight video VLMs with new grounding datasets and training methods that outperform prior open models and match or exceed some proprietary ones on pointing and tracking tasks.
S1-MMAlign is a new large-scale dataset of 15.5 million semantically enhanced scientific image-text pairs created via an AI recaptioning pipeline to improve multimodal understanding.
ToG-Bench is the first benchmark for task-oriented spatio-temporal video grounding in egocentric videos, with explicit-implicit dual grounding and one-to-many object scenarios across 100 ScanNet clips and 2704 instructions.
GaussDet enables open-vocabulary and referring segmentation in 3D Gaussians by learning instance features and aggregating votes from 2D detectors, improving referential grounding by 16.7% mIoU in zero-shot setting.
Goku supplies a 2M-scale dataset, synthesis pipeline, decoupled dual-branch model, and 1000-case benchmark for multi-task instruction-based video editing, reporting up to 8% gains in instruction following.
OmniCoT is a new panoramic reasoning benchmark with 6.7K eval, 1K real, and 14.3K training examples plus a two-stage SFT+GRPO training method to enforce global 360-degree consistency.
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