GuardReasoner-Omni: A Reasoning-based Multi-modal Guardrail for Text, Image, Video, and Audio

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Authors: Zhenhao Zhu, Yue Liu, Yanpei GUO, Wenjie Qu, Cancan Chen, Yufei He, Yibo Li, Yulin Chen, Tianyi Wu, Huiying Xu, Xinzhong Zhu, Jiaheng Zhang
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Abstract

We present GuardReasoner-Omni, a reasoning-based guardrail model designed to moderate text, image, video, and audio data. First, we construct a comprehensive training corpus comprising 181k samples spanning these four modalities. Our training pipeline follows a two-stage paradigm to incentivize the model to deliberate before making decisions: (1) conducting SFT to cold-start the model with explicit reasoning capabilities and structural adherence; and (2) performing RL with a concise correctness reward to preserve accurate reasoning while suppressing redundant generation. We release a suite of models scaled at 3B and 7B parameters. Extensive experiments demonstrate that GuardReasoner-Omni achieves superior performance compared to existing state-of-the-art baselines across various guardrail benchmarks.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection Multimodal Machine Learning Applications Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning

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Journal / source
arXiv (Cornell University)
Publication date
3 February 2026
Document type
Preprint