Training-Free Multimodal Large Language Model Orchestration
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Title:Training-Free Multimodal Large Language Model Orchestration
Abstract:Building interactive omni-modal assistants often relies on end-to-end multimodal alignment to fuse heterogeneous modalities, which incurs substantial data and compute costs and limits extensibility. We present Training-Free Large Language Model Orchestration (LLM Orchestration), a training-free orchestration framework that integrates off-the-shelf modality experts into a unified multimodal input--output system without additional gradient-based training for integration. LLM Orchestration comprises three components: (1) an LLM controller that infers user intent and emits explicit control tokens for expert selection and sequencing, enabling protocol-constrained and auditable routing; (2) a text-centric cross-modal memory that compresses multimodal evidence into structured records for lightweight retrieval and reuse, reducing redundant expert invocations across turns; and (3) a unified interaction layer that executes routing and memory decisions to support consistent modality transitions, full-duplex streaming, and interruption-aware dialogue. Across diverse multimodal benchmarks, LLM Orchestration achieves strong performance under standard evaluation constraints while maintaining low orchestration overhead and modular upgradeability, providing a practical alternative to costly joint training for omni-modal systems.
| Subjects: | Computation and Language (cs.CL) |
| Cite as: | arXiv:2508.10016 [cs.CL] |
| (or arXiv:2508.10016v4 [cs.CL] for this version) | |
| https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2508.10016
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| Journal reference: | ICML 2026 |
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From: Tianyu Xie [view email][v1] Wed, 6 Aug 2025 16:17:29 UTC (931 KB)
[v2] Fri, 15 Aug 2025 08:09:53 UTC (931 KB)
[v3] Fri, 8 May 2026 14:24:08 UTC (1,972 KB)
[v4] Fri, 22 May 2026 12:46:58 UTC (1,336 KB)
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