arxiv: 2604.02973 · v1 · submitted 2026-04-03 · 💻 cs.CV

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Exploring Motion-Language Alignment for Text-driven Motion Generation

Ruxi Gu , Zilei Wang , Wei Wang

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keywords text-to-motion generationmotion-language alignmentattention sinkhuman motion synthesisconditional generationattention masking

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Text-to-motion models generate more accurate movements when attention sinks on initial text tokens are masked to use the full description.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper proposes MLA-Gen, a framework that adds global motion priors to fine-grained local text conditioning for synthesizing human motions from descriptions. It identifies an attention sink where models fixate on the first text token and ignore later semantic details, which harms alignment between text and motion. The authors introduce the SinkRatio metric to quantify this concentration and create alignment-aware masking plus control strategies to redirect attention during generation. Experiments show these changes raise both motion quality and semantic match compared with prior methods. If the approach holds, it would make text-driven animation more reliable for applications that need motions to follow nuanced instructions.

Core claim

MLA-Gen integrates global motion priors with fine-grained local conditioning while using SinkRatio and alignment-aware masking to counteract the attention sink on the start text token, thereby improving both the realism of generated sequences and their semantic correspondence to the input text.

What carries the argument

MLA-Gen framework that pairs global motion priors with fine-grained local conditioning, together with the SinkRatio metric and alignment-aware masking strategies that regulate disproportionate attention on the first text token.

If this is right

Generated motions follow the complete textual description instead of defaulting to patterns tied to the first word.
The same masking approach can be added to existing text-to-motion architectures with little extra cost.
Motion datasets that contain longer, multi-clause sentences become more usable for training.
Quantitative metrics such as FID and text-alignment scores rise consistently across baseline models.
The SinkRatio value becomes a diagnostic tool for diagnosing alignment problems in new models.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

Similar attention-sink behavior may appear in text-to-video or text-to-3D generation, suggesting the masking technique could transfer.
Longer or more complex prompts would be a direct test of whether the regulation scales without retraining.
Combining the masking with contrastive losses might produce even tighter language-motion correspondence.

Load-bearing premise

The attention sink on the start token is the main driver of weak semantic grounding and that masking it fixes alignment without creating new artifacts or lowering motion quality.

What would settle it

Training and evaluating the masked and unmasked versions on the same benchmarks and finding no measurable gain in standard motion quality scores or text-motion alignment metrics would show the sink is not the primary cause.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2604.02973 by Ruxi Gu, Wei Wang, Zilei Wang.

**Figure 2.** Figure 2: Overview of our MLA-Gen framework. It comprises three complementary components: Memory Slots for capturing [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_2.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 3.** Figure 3: Heatmap of the memory slots activation. Regions [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_3.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 5.** Figure 5: Heatmaps comparison of alignment on the masked model (left) and the unmasked model (right). The textual [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_5.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 6.** Figure 6: SinkRatio curves for masked and unmasked mod [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_6.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 7.** Figure 7: Visualization comparison between ACMDM-S [39] and our MLA-Gen-S. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_7.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 8.** Figure 8: A failure case of MLA-Gen with a very long textual [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_8.png] view at source ↗

read the original abstract

Text-driven human motion generation aims to synthesize realistic motion sequences that follow textual descriptions. Despite recent advances, accurately aligning motion dynamics with textual semantics remains a fundamental challenge. In this paper, we revisit text-to-motion generation from the perspective of motion-language alignment and propose MLA-Gen, a framework that integrates global motion priors with fine-grained local conditioning. This design enables the model to capture common motion patterns, while establishing detailed alignment between texts and motions. Furthermore, we identify a previously overlooked attention sink phenomenon in human motion generation, where attention disproportionately concentrates on the start text token, limiting the utilization of informative textual cues and leading to degraded semantic grounding. To analyze this issue, we introduce SinkRatio, a metric for measuring attention concentration, and develop alignment-aware masking and control strategies to regulate attention during generation. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our approach consistently improves both motion quality and motion-language alignment over strong baselines. Code will be released upon acceptance.

Editorial analysis

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Desk editor's note, referee report, simulated authors' rebuttal, and a circularity audit. Tearing a paper down is the easy half of reading it; the pith above is the substance, this is the friction.

Desk Editor's Note private letter to a colleague

MLA-Gen adds a practical attention-sink analysis and masking fix to text-to-motion models on top of a global-plus-local backbone, but the masking's isolated contribution is not clearly separated from the priors.

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The paper's main move is MLA-Gen, which combines global motion priors with local text conditioning to improve semantic alignment in text-driven motion generation. They also flag an attention sink where the model over-weights the first text token, introduce SinkRatio to measure the concentration, and add alignment-aware masking to steer it. This is new enough for the subfield: the named framework and metric are not just re-labeling prior work, and the attention observation is a direct, usable diagnostic for transformer-based motion models. The reported gains in motion quality and alignment metrics over baselines look consistent on the surface, and the plan to release code helps reproducibility. The attention analysis itself is straightforward and worth testing in related setups. The soft spot is the causal claim for the masking. There is no ablation that holds the MLA-Gen backbone fixed and toggles only the sink-regulation step, so it remains possible that most of the lift comes from the global priors rather than from SinkRatio reduction. The abstract is also thin on exact experimental controls and metric definitions, which makes it harder to judge how much post-hoc tuning might be involved. This paper is for researchers already working on transformer generative models for human motion in animation or VR. A reader in that area would pick up a concrete metric and a masking trick to try, even if the gains need tighter dissection. It shows honest engagement with the attention mechanics and existing baselines, so it clears the bar for a serious referee, though it will likely need stronger isolation experiments in revision. I would send it to peer review.

Referee Report

3 major / 2 minor

Summary. The manuscript proposes MLA-Gen, a text-to-motion generation framework that combines global motion priors with local conditioning to improve motion-language alignment. It identifies an attention sink phenomenon in which attention disproportionately focuses on the initial text token, introduces the SinkRatio metric to quantify this concentration, and develops alignment-aware masking and control strategies to regulate attention during generation. The central claim is that these components yield consistent gains in both motion quality and semantic alignment over strong baselines, supported by extensive experiments.

Significance. If the attention sink is shown to be a primary driver of degraded grounding and the masking strategies demonstrably correct it without side effects, the work would offer a useful diagnostic tool (SinkRatio) and practical intervention for improving controllability in motion synthesis. The integration of global priors with local alignment is a reasonable architectural direction, and the release of code would strengthen reproducibility.

major comments (3)

[Experiments / Ablation subsection] The ablation studies do not isolate the contribution of alignment-aware masking while holding the MLA-Gen backbone fixed. Without a controlled comparison that toggles only the masking mechanism (and reports the resulting change in SinkRatio together with motion metrics), it remains unclear whether the reported gains in quality and alignment stem from sink regulation or from the global-prior component alone.
[§3 (Attention Sink Analysis)] The claim that attention sink is a primary cause of degraded semantic grounding rests on correlation via SinkRatio; no causal intervention (e.g., forced attention redistribution independent of the proposed masking) is presented to test whether lowering SinkRatio directly improves grounding or merely co-occurs with other changes.
[§5 (Experimental Results)] Quantitative results are presented without sufficient detail on baseline implementations, exact metric definitions (FID, R-Precision, etc.), dataset splits, or hyper-parameter search protocols. This makes it difficult to verify that the improvements are robust rather than sensitive to post-hoc choices.

minor comments (2)

[Abstract] The abstract refers to 'strong baselines' without naming them; the introduction or experimental section should explicitly list the compared methods and their sources.
[§3.2] Notation for the masking strategies and the precise formulation of SinkRatio should be introduced with a single equation block rather than scattered across paragraphs.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive and detailed feedback. We address each major comment point by point below and outline the revisions we will make to improve the manuscript.

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Referee: [Experiments / Ablation subsection] The ablation studies do not isolate the contribution of alignment-aware masking while holding the MLA-Gen backbone fixed. Without a controlled comparison that toggles only the masking mechanism (and reports the resulting change in SinkRatio together with motion metrics), it remains unclear whether the reported gains in quality and alignment stem from sink regulation or from the global-prior component alone.

Authors: We agree that a more controlled ablation is needed. In the revised manuscript we will add a dedicated experiment that keeps the full MLA-Gen backbone fixed and toggles only the alignment-aware masking (on/off). We will report the resulting SinkRatio values together with all motion quality and alignment metrics to isolate the masking contribution. revision: yes
Referee: [§3 (Attention Sink Analysis)] The claim that attention sink is a primary cause of degraded semantic grounding rests on correlation via SinkRatio; no causal intervention (e.g., forced attention redistribution independent of the proposed masking) is presented to test whether lowering SinkRatio directly improves grounding or merely co-occurs with other changes.

Authors: The alignment-aware masking and control strategies are our causal intervention: they directly reshape the attention distribution during generation. Ablations that enable/disable these strategies already show that SinkRatio reduction produces measurable gains in grounding. We will expand §3 to articulate this causal pathway more explicitly. A completely separate forced-redistribution experiment unrelated to our masking would require an orthogonal experimental setup outside the scope of the present framework. revision: partial
Referee: [§5 (Experimental Results)] Quantitative results are presented without sufficient detail on baseline implementations, exact metric definitions (FID, R-Precision, etc.), dataset splits, or hyper-parameter search protocols. This makes it difficult to verify that the improvements are robust rather than sensitive to post-hoc choices.

Authors: We appreciate this observation. The revised manuscript will include expanded descriptions of all baseline implementations, precise definitions and computation procedures for FID, R-Precision and other metrics, the exact training/validation/test splits, and the hyper-parameter search protocol. These details will appear in §5 and the supplementary material. revision: yes

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full rationale

The paper introduces MLA-Gen as an architectural integration of global priors and local conditioning, plus an empirical attention-sink analysis with SinkRatio metric and masking strategies. All performance claims are presented as outcomes of experiments on baselines rather than any first-principles derivation, fitted parameter renamed as prediction, or self-citation chain that reduces the central result to its own inputs. No equations or load-bearing steps in the provided text exhibit self-definition or construction equivalence.

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