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PW-Pruning: Phase-Aware Expert Selection for Speech-Centric Omni-Modal Models

arXiv Computation and Language
2d ago

Modality-Aware Expert Pruning for MoE-Based Multimodal Large Language Models

The paper introduces Modality-Aware Expert Pruning (MAEP), a training‑free method that decomposes expert importance by modality in a single forward pass for Mixture‑of‑Experts multimodal large language models. MAEP uses a Delta‑H Output metric to measure the impact of removing an expert and leverages low‑attention vision tokens as a stable pruning signal, while preserving text‑side importance. Experiments on three MoE‑based MLLMs show that MAEP reduces the BF16 expert weight footprint by about 27 GB (≈47% of total memory), enabling a 58 GB model to fit on a single 40 GB GPU and outperforming modality‑agnostic baselines on most multimodal benchmarks.

By Donggeun Kim
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 17

AIMER: Calibration-Free Task-Agnostic MoE Expert Pruning

arXiv:2603. 18492v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language models increase parameter capacity without proportional per-token computation, yet deployment still requires storing the full expert pool, making expert pruning important for reducing memory and serving overhead.

By Zongfang Liu, Guangyi Chen, Shengkun Tang, Yifan Shen, Huan Wang, Xin Yuan
arXiv AI
Jul 7

OmniFocus: Query-Guided Modality-Balanced Token Compression for Omni-Modal Large Language Models

arXiv:2607. 03050v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Omni modal large language models (OmniLLMs) have attracted wide attention for their ability to jointly process audio and video, but they generate large token sequences under audio-visual inputs, leading to substantial inference cost.

By Shijie Cao, Qingyu Zhang, Boxi Yu, Yuzhong Zhang, Boxi Cao, Yaojie Lu, Hongyu Lin, Xianpei Han, Le Sun
arXiv AI
Oct 16

Qwen-Audio-Jev: A Unified Interface for Audio Decisions

Qwen-Audio-Jev extends Qwen-Audio-3.1-ASR-Flash-Next with a dedicated decision head that unifies selection, binary judgment, and scoring into three primitives: CHOICE, NOUL, and SCORE. The model delivers competitive accuracies and error rates across 18 labeled configurations, achieving 78.70% on MMAU-mini, 84.06% on MMSU, 6.50% equal error rate on VoxCeleb1-O, and a 0.1062 normalized MAE on NISQA. Compared to its predecessor, Qwen-Audio-Jev offers roughly a 20‑fold inference speedup, enabling efficient high‑throughput audio decision‑making for tasks such as large‑scale screening, speaker verification, and automated quality assessment.

By Ying Fang, Zhifu Gao, Qing Gu, Jiajun He, Kangqi Jing, Xiangang Li, Yu Pu, Wupeng Wang
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 7

Training-Free Speech-Centric Omni Understanding with Frozen VLMs

The paper introduces Training-Free Omni (TFO), a plug‑and‑play framework that transforms a frozen vision‑language model (VLM) into a speech‑centric omni model without modifying its architecture or requiring multimodal re‑alignment. TFO leverages Whisper to generate confidence‑filtered, timestamped transcripts and routes them through the VLM’s existing language interface, leaving the visual pathway untouched. Evaluations on 56 benchmarks across 21 languages show that TFO matches or surpasses native omni models on audio‑visual tasks, improves audio‑only performance, and preserves strong visual and reasoning capabilities.

By Ankan Deria, Hanoona Rasheed, Xilin He, Fahad Shahbaz Khan, Salman Khan
arXiv AI
Jul 29

OmniDelta: Skill-Driven Budget Allocation for Token Compression in OmniLLMs

arXiv:2607. 25669v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Emerging Omni-modal Large Language Models (OmniLLMs) enable unified understanding of text, audio, and video, but their long audio-video token sequences introduce substantial memory and inference costs.

By Haoyang Huang, Wenjie Huang, Tianqi Xu, Hongyaoxing Gu, Kang Tan, Yikai Fu, Yuhao Shen, Tianyu Liu, Baolin Zhang, Jun Zhang, Xinyi Hu, Jun Dai, Shuang Ge, Lei Chen, Yue Li, Mingchen Wang, Meng Zhang
arXiv Computation and Language
Oct 22

Omnilingual-MsASR: Benchmarking Multimodal, Multilingual, Long-Form Multi-Speaker ASR of Omni Large Language Models

Omnilingual-MsASR is a new benchmark designed to evaluate omni‑modal large language models on long‑form, multi‑speaker automatic speech recognition across six languages, with recordings up to 30 minutes and up to 20 speakers. The benchmark provides parallel audio and video inputs to test cross‑modal consistency and the models’ ability to use complementary cues from both modalities. Evaluations of leading omni‑modal LLMs show significant performance gaps, with many models achieving word error rates above 100%, underscoring challenges in temporal localization, speaker disambiguation, and cross‑modal synergy.

By Yuan Ge, Pei Zhang, Xize Cheng, Lingzhou Mu, Mingyang Wang, Jin Xu, Baosong Yang, Shengxiang Gao, Jingbo Zhu, Zhengtao Yu, Tong Xiao