OmniReasoning: Pushing the Limits of Audio-Visual Joint Reasoning
The research introduced OmniReasoningBench to test genuine audio-visual joint reasoning, OmniQA to create evidence-grounded training data with timestamped clues, and ModalityFactored Self-Distillation (MFSD) as a learning method. This approach explicitly models cross-modal interactions between audio and visual evidence, leading to significant performance gains on complex reasoning tasks.