Unlocking Cognitive Capabilities and Analyzing the Perception-Logic Trade-off

arXiv:2602.23730v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advancements in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) pursue omni-perception capabilities, yet integrating robust sensory grounding with complex reasoning remains a challenge, particularly for underrepresented regions. In this report, we introduce the research preview of MERaLiON2-Omni (Alpha), a 10B-parameter multilingual omni-perception t