Qwen2.5-Omni

Overview

Introduction

Qwen2.5-Omni is an end-to-end multimodal model designed to perceive diverse modalities, including text, images, audio, and video, while simultaneously generating text and natural speech responses in a streaming manner.

Key Features

• Omni and Novel Architecture: We propose Thinker-Talker architecture, an end-to-end multimodal model designed to perceive diverse modalities, including text, images, audio, and video, while simultaneously generating text and natural speech responses in a streaming manner. We propose a novel position embedding, named TMRoPE (Time-aligned Multimodal RoPE), to synchronize the timestamps of video inputs with audio.

• Real-Time Voice and Video Chat: Architecture designed for fully real-time interactions, supporting chunked input and immediate output.

• Natural and Robust Speech Generation: Surpassing many existing streaming and non-streaming alternatives, demonstrating superior robustness and naturalness in speech generation.

• Strong Performance Across Modalities: Exhibiting exceptional performance across all modalities when benchmarked against similarly sized single-modality models. Qwen2.5-Omni outperforms the similarly sized Qwen2-Audio in audio capabilities and achieves comparable performance to Qwen2.5-VL-7B.

• Excellent End-to-End Speech Instruction Following: Qwen2.5-Omni shows performance in end-to-end speech instruction following that rivals its effectiveness with text inputs, evidenced by benchmarks such as MMLU and GSM8K.

Model Architecture

Performance

We conducted a comprehensive evaluation of Qwen2.5-Omni, which demonstrates strong performance across all modalities when compared to similarly sized single-modality models and closed-source models like Qwen2.5-VL-7B, Qwen2-Audio, and Gemini-1.5-pro. In tasks requiring the integration of multiple modalities, such as OmniBench, Qwen2.5-Omni achieves state-of-the-art performance. Furthermore, in single-modality tasks, it excels in areas including speech recognition (Common Voice), translation (CoVoST2), audio understanding (MMAU), image reasoning (MMMU, MMStar), video understanding (MVBench), and speech generation (Seed-tts-eval and subjective naturalness).