@misc{apertus2026apertus15, title={Apertus 1.5: From Open Text Models to Open Multimodal Reasoners}, author={Project Apertus and : and Yixuan Xu and Yassine Turki and Vinko Sabolčec and Valentina Pyatkin and Tommy Chu and Sven Najem-Meyer and Sean F. Carroll and Robert Smith and Raphael Kreft and Oscar Alessandro Tazza and Oleg Lavrovsky and Nicola Irmiger and Matteo Santelmo and Marian Schneider and Juan García Giraldo and Hanna Yukhymenko and Eduard Ďurech and Davit Melikidze and Dani Tamayo and Bettina Messmer and Aryan Ahadinia and Anunay Yadav and Allen Huang and Ahmad Fraij and Alessandro Bombarda and Alex Padula and Alexander Hägele and Alexander Sternfeld and Anna Hedström and Anna Kosovskaia and Arthur Wuhrmann and Arundhati Balasubramaniam and Badr Al Mahouri and Barna Pasztor and Bartosz Szostakiewicz and Bich Ngoc Doan and Bryan Schmid and Burak Sezen and Camille Challier and Clément Charmillot and Dana Shayakhmetova and Daniel Perruchoud and David Brüggemann and David Isztl and Elia Palme and Emma Anastassova and Fabian Bösch and Faruk Zahiragić and Fawzi Roberto Mohamed and Fiona Panicali and Florian Kolly and Flynn Guerra and Francesco Monti and Frederike Lübeck and Gennaro Oliva and Haofeng Yang and Haoliang Shang and Helen El Khoury and Henrique Mendonça and Jannis Vamvas and Jérome Landolt and Jessica Lam and Jingchun Xiao and Jonathan Coles and Joshua Oyebanji and Khanh Nguyen and Konstantinos Pitas and Lasse B. Strand and Li Mi and Loïc Deslarzes and Lorenzo Baggi and Lorenzo Noci and Luca Baumann and Luca Sartori and Lukas Drescher and Marco De Negri and Marco Passerini and Mark Klein and Marko Stojanovic and Martin Majsec and Matin Ansaripour and Mattea Busato and Mauro Pellonara and Max Neuwinger and Michael Graber and Michal Tešnar and Michelle Wastl and Miguel Gila and Mikolaj Boronski and Morgane Magnin and Moritz Reihs and Mukhammadali Sayfiddinov and Nathan Ranchin and Nicolas Cuveillier and Oscar Wohlfahrt and Qianqian Zou and Rada Kamysheva and Rita Sevastjanova and Roman Machacek and Sebastian Keller and Simon Matrenok and Simon Pierre and Stefano Schuppli and Suei-Wen Chen and Szabina Horváth-Mikulas and Taliesin Perez and Thilo Spinner and Thomas Kleine Buening and Tim Robinson and Tymoteusz Kwiecinski and Vilém Zouhar and Vinzenz Thoma and Xiaozhe Yao and Yannick Metz and Yuhei Fukuhara and Yusif Askari and Zixuan Chen and Alexander Ilic and Ana Klimovic and Andreas Krause and Andrei Kucharavy and Elliott Ash and Joost VandeVondele and Martin Rajman and Mennatallah El-Assady and Thomas Schulthess and Timo Kehrer and Torsten Hoefler and Antoine Bosselut and Martin Jaggi and Imanol Schlag}, year={2026}, eprint={2610.15542}, archivePrefix={arXiv}, primaryClass={cs.CL}, url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.15542}, }