GeoMotionGPT: Geometry-Aligned Motion Understanding with Large Language Models

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Autores principales: Ye, Zhankai, Li, Bofan, Jin, Yukai, Li, Shuoqiu, Wang, Wei, Zhang, Yanfu, Gao, Shangqian, Liu, Xin
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author Ye, Zhankai
Li, Bofan
Jin, Yukai
Li, Shuoqiu
Wang, Wei
Zhang, Yanfu
Gao, Shangqian
Liu, Xin
author_facet Ye, Zhankai
Li, Bofan
Jin, Yukai
Li, Shuoqiu
Wang, Wei
Zhang, Yanfu
Gao, Shangqian
Liu, Xin
contents Discrete motion tokenization has recently enabled Large Language Models (LLMs) to serve as versatile backbones for motion understanding and motion-language reasoning. However, existing pipelines typically decouple motion quantization from semantic embedding learning, linking them solely via token IDs. This approach fails to effectively align the intrinsic geometry of the motion space with the embedding space, thereby hindering the LLM's capacity for nuanced motion reasoning. We argue that alignment is most effective when both modalities share a unified geometric basis. Therefore, instead of forcing the LLM to reconstruct the complex geometry among motion tokens from scratch, we present a novel framework that explicitly enforces orthogonality on both the motion codebook and the LLM embedding space, ensuring that their relational structures naturally mirror each other. Specifically, we employ a decoder-only quantizer with Gumbel-Softmax for differentiable training and balanced codebook usage. To bridge the modalities, we use a sparse projection that maps motion codes into the LLM embedding space while preserving orthogonality. Finally, a two-stage orthonormal regularization schedule enforces soft constraints during tokenizer training and LLM fine-tuning to maintain geometric alignment without hindering semantic adaptation. Extensive experiments show that our framework improves the aggregated Average by 22.4% over the strongest baseline on HumanML3D and by 14.4% on KIT-ML, while ablations confirm the effectiveness of the tokenizer, projection, and regularization designs.
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spellingShingle GeoMotionGPT: Geometry-Aligned Motion Understanding with Large Language Models
Ye, Zhankai
Li, Bofan
Jin, Yukai
Li, Shuoqiu
Wang, Wei
Zhang, Yanfu
Gao, Shangqian
Liu, Xin
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Discrete motion tokenization has recently enabled Large Language Models (LLMs) to serve as versatile backbones for motion understanding and motion-language reasoning. However, existing pipelines typically decouple motion quantization from semantic embedding learning, linking them solely via token IDs. This approach fails to effectively align the intrinsic geometry of the motion space with the embedding space, thereby hindering the LLM's capacity for nuanced motion reasoning. We argue that alignment is most effective when both modalities share a unified geometric basis. Therefore, instead of forcing the LLM to reconstruct the complex geometry among motion tokens from scratch, we present a novel framework that explicitly enforces orthogonality on both the motion codebook and the LLM embedding space, ensuring that their relational structures naturally mirror each other. Specifically, we employ a decoder-only quantizer with Gumbel-Softmax for differentiable training and balanced codebook usage. To bridge the modalities, we use a sparse projection that maps motion codes into the LLM embedding space while preserving orthogonality. Finally, a two-stage orthonormal regularization schedule enforces soft constraints during tokenizer training and LLM fine-tuning to maintain geometric alignment without hindering semantic adaptation. Extensive experiments show that our framework improves the aggregated Average by 22.4% over the strongest baseline on HumanML3D and by 14.4% on KIT-ML, while ablations confirm the effectiveness of the tokenizer, projection, and regularization designs.
title GeoMotionGPT: Geometry-Aligned Motion Understanding with Large Language Models
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.07632