Abstract
Youtu-Parsing-Omni is a unified multi-modal parser that encodes documents, images, audio, and video into structured spatiotemporal records using shared weights and cross-modal fusion, achieving state-of-the-art results across parsing benchmarks through a self-evolving on-policy distillation procedure.
We present Youtu-Parsing-Omni, an omni-modal parser that converts documents, images, audio, and video into structured records grounded in space and time, providing a perception layer for agents that read, locate, and cite evidence across modalities. Its design rests on one encoder for every modality and one schema for every task. Youtu-Omni-Encoder, initialized from a pre-trained language model to strengthen text reading, encodes all modalities with shared weights in a unified space-time coordinate system, and a few fusion layers let video frames attend to concurrent audio, bringing cross-modal fusion and temporal alignment into perception itself. OmniSchema unifies the outputs of all ten parsing tasks, allowing a single self-evolving post-training procedure, OmniSchema-Aware On-Policy Distillation (OSAD), to provide a shared token-role-based objective across tasks. In each round, the model is trained on its own rollouts against token-level targets from a reference-conditioned copy of itself, which is then refreshed with the trained weights, so that the parser and its supervision co-evolve. With a single 5 B-parameter checkpoint, Youtu-Parsing-Omni achieves state-of-the-art performance on OmniDocBench v1.6 (96.96 Overall) and leads all open-weight models on OmniParsingBench (75.08 Avg.), with its advantage concentrated on audio and video. It also achieves the best overall chart-parsing score (95.02) and the highest exact chemical-fingerprint agreement among compared systems, and matches a dedicated optical-music model in character-level transcription of typeset sheet music while staying far ahead of general-purpose systems. Code and model weights are publicly available.
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Youtu-Parsing-Omni is a compact (5B) omni-modal parsing model. Given a single input — a document page, a natural image, a chart / flowchart, a geometry figure, an audio clip or an audio-visual video — it produces one structured JSON envelope that covers both perception (layout elements, text, tables, formulas, bounding boxes, timestamps, ASR, OCR, acoustic events, camera motion) and cognition (captions, narratives, reports).
| Input | --task |
modality / subtype |
Key contents |
|---|---|---|---|
| Document page | document |
image / document |
layout elements with bbox, text / LaTeX / OTSL tables / Markdown charts / Mermaid flowcharts, reading order |
| Natural image | natural_image |
image / natural_image |
entities and text with bbox, tags, captions, global description |
| Chart | graphics_chart |
image / document |
one chart element: Markdown table, notes, caption |
| Flowchart | graphics_flowchart |
image / document |
one flowchart element: Mermaid, caption |
| Geometry figure | graphics_geometric |
image / document |
one geometric element: points, lines, arcs, shapes, geometric relations and measurements |
| Audio | audio |
audio / – |
vocal / non-vocal segments with timestamps, speakers, ASR, timbre / scene captions, acoustic events |
| Natural video | natural_video |
video / natural_video |
temporal segments with visual elements, actions, interactions, camera motion, audio track |
| Text-rich video | textrich_video |
video / text_rich_video |
segments with OCR + ASR and a Markdown structured_report of the whole video |
Highlights:
- Unified schema – one JSON envelope for seven parsing families, driven by the task prompt.
- Omni encoder – image, audio and interleaved audio-visual video inputs (frames + audio track) in a single model.
- Strong results at a small size – state-of-the-art on OmniDocBench v1.6 (96.96 Overall), best open-weight model on OmniParsingBench (75.08 Avg., second only to Gemini-3-Pro), and competitive with specialized models on chemical-structure (ChemOCR) and music-score (PDMX-Synth) recognition (results).
- Easy to serve – a vLLM plugin, pinned serving settings, task prompts and inference examples are included.
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