Omni-o3: Deep Nested Omnimodal Deduction for Deliberative Audio-Visual Reasoning

TL;DR

Omni-o3 introduces a deep nested deduction framework for efficient, recursive audio-visual reasoning, sharing reasoning paths and improving exploration in complex tasks.

Contribution

It presents a novel recursive search-based reasoning paradigm with a two-stage training process for enhanced multi-modal understanding.

Findings

Achieves competitive results on 11 benchmarks.

Enables advanced audio-visual and multi-turn reasoning.

Shares reasoning prefixes to improve exploration efficiency.

Abstract

Omnimodal understanding entails a massive, highly redundant search space of cross-modal interactions, demanding focused and deliberative reasoning. Current reasoning paradigms rely on either sequential step-by-step generation or parallel sample-by-sample rollouts, leading to isolated reasoning trajectories. This inability to share promising intermediate paths severely limits exploration efficiency and causes compounding errors in complex audio-visual tasks. To break this bottleneck, we introduce Omni-o3, a novel framework driven by a deep nested deduction policy. By formulating reasoning as a dynamic recursive search, Omni-o3 inherently shares reasoning prefixes across branches, enabling the iterative execution of four atomic cognitive actions: expansion, selection, simulation, and backpropagation. To empower this framework, we propose a robust two-stage training paradigm: (1) cold-start supervised fine-tuning on 101K high-quality, long-chain trajectories distilled from 3.5M diverse omnimodal samples, enabling necessary recursive search patterns; and (2) nested group rollout-driven exploratory reinforcement learning on 18K complex multi-turn samples, explicitly guided by a novel multi-step reward model to stimulate deep nested reasoning. Extensive experiments demonstrate that Omni-o3 achieves competitive performance across 11 benchmarks, unlocking advanced capabilities in comprehensive audio-visual, visual-centric, and audio-centric reasoning tasks.