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Uni-MoE-2.0-Omni: Scaling Language-Centric Omnimodal Large Model with Advanced MoE, Training and Data

arXiv 2511.12609 ↗First posted 16 Nov 2025cs.CL cs.AI cs.CVcited by 21

On the map: Mixture-of-experts → Multimodal MoE models

Abstract (arXiv)

We present Uni-MoE 2.0 from the Lychee family. As a fully open-source omnimodal large model (OLM), it substantially advances Lychee's Uni-MoE series in language-centric multimodal understanding, reasoning, and generating. Based on the dense LLM, we build Uni-MoE-2.0-Omni from scratch through three core contributions: dynamic-capacity Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) design, a progressive training strategy enhanced with an iterative reinforcement strategy, and a carefully curated multimodal data matching technique. It is capable of omnimodal understanding, as well as generating images, text, and speech. Architecturally, our new MoE framework balances computational efficiency and capability for 10 cross-modal inputs using shared, routed, and null experts, while our Omni-Modality 3D RoPE ensures spatio-temporal cross-modality alignment in the self-attention layer. For training, following cross-modal pretraining, we use a progressive supervised fine-tuning strategy that activates modality-specific experts and is enhanced by balanced data composition and an iterative GSPO-DPO method to stabilise RL training and improve reasoning. Data-wise, the base model, trained on approximately 75B tokens of open-source multimodal data, is equipped with special speech and image generation tokens, allowing it to learn these generative tasks by conditioning its outputs on linguistic cues. Extensive evaluation across 85 benchmarks demonstrates that our model achieves SOTA or highly competitive performance against leading OLMs, surpassing Qwen2.5-Omni (trained with 1.2T tokens) on over 50 of 76 benchmarks. Key strengths include video understanding (+7% avg. of 8), omnimodallity understanding (+7% avg. of 4), and audiovisual reasoning (+4%). It also advances long-form speech processing (reducing WER by 4.2%) and leads in low-level image processing and controllable generation across 5 metrics.

Key facts. Cited by 21 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026). Placed in Multimodal MoE models, one of 12 directions in Mixture-of-experts. Builds on 137 of its 166 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 16 Nov 2025.

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  12. 2026SONIC-O1: A Real-World Benchmark for Evaluating Multimodal Large Language Models on Audio-Video Understandingcited by 3
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  7. 2026Omni-C: Compressing Heterogeneous Modalities into a Single Dense Encodercited by 0
  8. 2026GeMoE: Gating Entropy is All You Need for Uncertainty-aware Adaptive Routing in MoE-based Large Vision-Language Modelscited by 0
  9. 2026OmniSeek: Native Tool Integration for Multi-turn Audio-Visual Reasoningcited by 0

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