Active audio-visual tool use improves reasoning across long recordings

OmniSeek learns to retrieve targeted audio and video segments over multiple turns, then combines the evidence to answer cross-modal questions.

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Haibo Wang · Jiteng Mu · Jialu Li · Jingru Yi · Yuanjun Xiong · Jianming Zhang · +2 more

Adobe Research · University of California Davis

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Wang and colleagues turn an omni-modal language model into an agent that chooses when to listen, when to look, and which temporal window to inspect.

The authors built OmniSeek around an iterative think, tool-call, observe protocol.

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From Adobe Research and University of California Davis

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OmniSeek improves long-context audio-visual reasoning by letting models iteratively retrieve and combine targeted raw audio and video evidence.

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