Ant Group's Duo v1: a reciprocal world model for real-time full-duplex interaction

inclusionAI · hf · 2026-11-13

Ant Group releases Duo v1, a Reciprocal World Model (RWM) that continuously perceives audiovisual input while responding to users in real time, enabling full-duplex interaction. It treats Intent (cognitive reasoning and participation decisions) and Realization (coherent audiovisual behavior) as equally fundamental world-model capabilities, whereas existing world models mostly simulate only the latter. Three key designs: (1) autoregressive modeling for continuous interaction reasoning rather than diffusion-limited understanding; (2) chunk-specific conditions with Intent/Realization tokens synchronized on a unified timeline, with module-specific attention masks enforcing intra- and inter-chunk causality; (3) dual rollout distillation to mitigate distribution shift in both modules, trained on generated Intent tokens and synthesized audiovisual histories.

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