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Zhan Huang

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MOSS-VL Technical Report

We present MOSS-VL, an open vision-language model family that treats real-time interaction -- perceiving while it speaks -- as a first-class capability. It is co-designed across the stack: the language decoder attends to vision only through gated cross-attention, so the model can naturally see incoming frames while generating; a synthesized interaction corpus supervises when to speak, when to stay silent, and when to revise; and a staged curriculum concentrates all real-time-specific training in one light final stage over a strong offline foundation. Offline, MOSS-VL-Instruct is competitive at comparable scale and leads temporal-reasoning video sets. Across four streaming benchmarks, MOSS-VL-Realtime posts the best average on three (second on the fourth) among open-source streaming models, sweeping the three subsets that squarely test proactive behavior -- 66.0 vs. 37.5 for the best baseline on OmniMMI Proactive Alerting. With 11.3B parameters but visual tokens outside the decoded sequence, MOSS-VL widens its time-to-first-token advantage over same-backbone Qwen3-VL-8B from 2.8x to 5.1x as visual context grows. We release all five checkpoints, the training curriculum, and the real-time inference code at https://github.com/OpenMOSS/MOSS-VL.

cs.CV

MOSS-Video-Preview: Toward Real-Time Video Understanding via Cross-Attention

Video understanding is shifting from the offline paradigm -- taking a fully recorded video as input and producing a single answer after it ends -- toward real-time interaction, in which the model perceives new frames while still replying, revises its answer as new evidence appears, and remains silent when there is nothing to say. We present MOSS-Video-Preview to validate this paradigm. Our central claim is that perception must not be blocked by generation; its natural realization is a two-channel architecture. We argue that a cross-attention backbone is better suited to real-time vision-language fusion than the prevailing decoder-only design: visual features enter through a side channel rather than joining the autoregressive sequence, so perception and generation run on separate, non-blocking pathways -- reducing the frequency of visual processing and exposing a clean channel-wise interface for independent compression. We complement this with a data synthesis pipeline that converts dense captions into real-time understanding QA whose answers are revised to match what the model has perceived so far, and we specialize an offline model on these data to elicit real-time behavior. Our model trails the strong Qwen2.5-VL-7B baseline overall -- a gap we attribute primarily to data and scale rather than the architecture -- yet attains competitive offline video and multimodal understanding, remains robust on the spatial and fine-grained temporal reasoning central to real-time use, and acquires behaviors that offline models lack: continuous perception, answer revision, and timely silence. On a single H200 with 256 frames per video, it achieves about a 5x speedup in time to first token and 2.7x higher decoding throughput, with negligible degradation in offline ability. Our study of paradigm, architecture, and data outlines a viable path toward real-time video understanding.

cs.CV

Nonlocal conservation laws. I. A new class of monotonicity-preserving models

We introduce a new class of nonlocal nonlinear conservation laws in one space dimension that allow for nonlocal interactions over a finite horizon. The proposed model, which we refer to as the nonlocal pair interaction model, inherits at the continuum level the unwinding feature of finite difference schemes for local hyperbolic conservation laws, so that the maximum principle and certain monotonicity properties hold and, consequently, the entropy inequalities are naturally satisfied. We establish a global-in-time well-posedness theory for these models which covers a broad class of initial data. Moreover, in the limit when the horizon parameter approaches zero, we are able to prove that our nonlocal model reduces to the conventional class of local hyperbolic conservation laws. Furthermore, we propose a numerical discretization method adapted to our nonlocal model, which relies on a monotone numerical flux and a uniform mesh, and we establish that these numerical solutions converge to a solution, providing as by-product both the existence theory for the nonlocal model and the convergence property relating the nonlocal regime and the asymptotic local regime.

math.AP