Kwai Keye-VL-2.0 Technical Report
Abstract Overview
Kwai Keye-VL-2.0-30B-A3B is an open-source multimodal Mixture-of-Experts foundation model aimed at long-video understanding and agentic intelligence. The report centers on two technical themes: extending multimodal context handling to 256K tokens with a GQA-compatible DeepSeek Sparse Attention design, and consolidating diverse post-training capabilities with Cross-Modal Multi-Teacher On-Policy Distillation alongside Context-RL and Video-RL. The system also uses native-resolution visual encoding, unified image/video processing, and optimized training and inference infrastructure for variable-length multimodal workloads. Evaluations cover long-video understanding, temporal grounding, code and tool-use agents, and general vision-language benchmarks.
Novelty
The paper claims to be the first to adapt DeepSeek Sparse Attention to a GQA-based multimodal architecture, enabling lossless 256K-context processing for long video. It also introduces Cross-Modal Multi-Teacher On-Policy Distillation to merge heterogeneous RL-trained teachers across text, image, video, and agent tasks while mitigating catastrophic forgetting.
Results
The model achieves the best reported results among the compared systems on LongVideoBench, Video-MME-v2 accuracy, all three TimeLens temporal-grounding subsets, tau^2-Bench, and VitaBench, while remaining competitive on MLVU, Video-MME, Video-MMMU, coding benchmarks, and broader vision-language evaluation. The report also states that Video RL improves general video benchmark performance by about 1 percentage point, and that the infrastructure yields substantial inference and training efficiency gains for long-context use.
Key Points
- Keye-VL-2.0 combines a 30B-class MoE backbone with only 3B active parameters, native-resolution visual encoding, and unified image/video tokenization to support detailed multimodal reasoning.
- Its long-context design uses a Lightning Indexer plus GQA sparse aggregation with top-k token selection, reducing attention complexity from O(L^2) to O(Lk) while supporting 256K multimodal contexts.
- Its post-training stack mixes SFT, synthetic CoT, General RL, specialized RL, Video RL, and MOPD to consolidate video, reasoning, coding, tool-use, OCR, grounding, and counting capabilities into one model.
References
- arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.10651v1
- Fugu-MT: https://fugumt.com/fugumt/paper_check/2606.10651v1
- Hugging Face Papers: https://huggingface.co/papers/2606.10651