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Re²MoGen: Open-Vocabulary Motion Generation via LLM Reasoning and Physics-Aware Refinement

Jiakun Zheng , Ting Xiao , Shiqin Cao , Xinran Li , Zhe Wang , Chenjia Bai

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keywords open-vocabulary motion generationtext-to-motion synthesisLLM reasoningMonte Carlo tree searchphysics-aware refinementkeyframe planningreinforcement learning post-training

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The pith

Re²MoGen generates open-vocabulary motions by planning keyframes with LLM reasoning and then refining them for physical plausibility through pose optimization and reinforcement learning.

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

The paper sets out to solve the limitation of existing text-to-motion models, which work well only on descriptions similar to their training data but fail on novel prompts. It proposes a three-stage process that first uses Monte Carlo tree search to guide an LLM toward reasonable keyframe plans specifying root and key joint positions, then optimizes full-body poses with a human prior and fine-tunes a motion generator using dynamic temporal matching for completion, and finally applies physics-aware reinforcement learning to remove implausibilities. If the approach holds, it would let users produce character animations from arbitrary text instructions without requiring new paired training examples for every scenario. The central mechanism is the staged separation of semantic planning from physical correction, which aims to keep motions both faithful to the prompt and free of artifacts like foot sliding or joint violations.

Core claim

Re²MoGen shows that open-vocabulary motion generation becomes feasible when an LLM first produces sparse keyframe plans via enhanced reasoning, a pose model then completes full-body trajectories under a dynamic matching objective, and reinforcement learning finally enforces physical constraints on the resulting motion sequence, yielding outputs that remain semantically aligned with the original text while satisfying biomechanical rules.

What carries the argument

Three-stage pipeline that uses Monte Carlo tree search on an LLM to generate sparse keyframes, followed by pose optimization and RL-based physics refinement to complete and correct the full motion.

Load-bearing premise

Monte Carlo tree search on the LLM will produce keyframes that remain reasonable and semantically faithful even for motion descriptions far outside the training distribution, and the later optimization and refinement steps will not introduce new semantic drift or physical errors.

What would settle it

Test the system on a set of highly novel prompts such as 'a person juggling while riding a unicycle on ice' and measure whether human evaluators or a physics simulator rate the outputs as both matching the described action and free of violations like interpenetration or unstable balance; failure on either criterion for a majority of cases would falsify the central claim.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2604.17807 by Chenjia Bai, Jiakun Zheng, Shiqin Cao, Ting Xiao, Xinran Li, Zhe Wang.

**Figure 1.** Figure 1: The framework of Re2MoGen, which consists of three key parts: (i) MCTS-enhanced LLM Reasoning; (ii) Motion Completion and Finetuning, and (iii) Physics-aware refinement. In this paper, we adopt Motion Latent Diffusion (MLD) [4] as the basic model, denoted as pˆ 1:L = πmld(ci). For the basic motion generation process, MLD aims to model the conditional distribution of motions given a set of text description… view at source ↗

**Figure 2.** Figure 2: Qualitative comparison results of motions generated by different methods. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_2.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 3.** Figure 3: Visualization of our generated motions on the MuJoCo [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_3.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 4.** Figure 4: Deploy generated motions on the real world robot. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_4.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 5.** Figure 5: The initial pose for LLM planning. 8. B. Experiments Details 8.1. LLM-planned Keyframes As shown in Figs.(10-16), we present the JSON data of keyframes planned by the LLM of different motion lengths alongside the rendered pose images after full-body optimization. These results demonstrate that LLM can reasonably plan actions based on text descriptions. 8.2. Evaluation Metrics As mentioned in the main tex… view at source ↗

**Figure 6.** Figure 6: Our prompt template for LLM reasoning. 9.1. Experiments on SnapMotion [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p014_6.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 7.** Figure 7: Examples for LLM reasoning. 0.05, 0.5, 1}. The results are shown in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_7.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 8.** Figure 8: Related reasons for the given examples. Please evaluate the alignment between a given generative motion clip and the corresponding text description ('{DESCRIPTION}'). The motion clip is represented as a sequence of frames {INPUT_LENGTH}. The motion only represents the character's actions, and is not concerned with the presence or absence of objects. Rating from 0 to 5. Scoring Criteria: 0-1: The motion doe… view at source ↗

**Figure 9.** Figure 9: VLM evaluation prompt. 5 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p016_9.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 10.** Figure 10: LLM-planned key joint positions and rendered images. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p017_10.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 11.** Figure 11: LLM-planned key joint positions and rendered images. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p017_11.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 12.** Figure 12: LLM-planned key joint positions and rendered images. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_12.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 13.** Figure 13: LLM-planned key joint positions and rendered images. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_13.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 14.** Figure 14: LLM-planned key joint positions and rendered images. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p019_14.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 15.** Figure 15: LLM-planned key joint positions and rendered images. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p019_15.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 16.** Figure 16: LLM-planned key joint positions and rendered images. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p020_16.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 17.** Figure 17: Additional qualitative comparison results of motions generated by different methods. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p020_17.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 18.** Figure 18: Additional qualitative comparison results of motions generated by different methods. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p021_18.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 19.** Figure 19: Additional results on the MuJoCo platform. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p021_19.png] view at source ↗

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Text-to-motion (T2M) generation aims to control the behavior of a target character via textual descriptions. Leveraging text-motion paired datasets, existing T2M models have achieved impressive performance in generating high-quality motions within the distribution of their training data. However, their performance deteriorates notably when the motion descriptions differ significantly from the training texts. To address this issue, we propose Re$^2$MoGen, a Reasoning and Refinement open-vocabulary Motion Generation framework that leverages enhanced Large Language Model (LLM) reasoning to generate an initial motion planning and then refine its physical plausibility via reinforcement learning (RL) post-training. Specifically, Re$^2$MoGen consists of three stages: We first employ Monte Carlo tree search to enhance the LLM's reasoning ability in generating reasonable keyframes of the motion based on text prompts, specifying only the root and several key joints' positions to ease the reasoning process. Then, we apply a human pose model as a prior to optimize the full-body poses based on the planned keyframes and use the resulting incomplete motion to supervise fine-tuning a pre-trained motion generator via a dynamic temporal matching objective, enabling spatiotemporal completion. Finally, we use post-training with physics-aware reward to refine motion quality to eliminate physical implausibility in LLM-planned motions. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our framework can generate semantically consistent and physically plausible motions and achieve state-of-the-art performance in open-vocabulary motion generation.

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Re²MoGen's three-stage pipeline for open-vocabulary motion generation is a reasonable synthesis of LLM planning and RL refinement, but the abstract gives no metrics to support the SOTA claim.

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The main thing to know is that this paper outlines a three-stage approach to text-to-motion generation that works outside the training distribution: MCTS-augmented LLM reasoning to produce sparse keyframes on root and key joints, human-pose-prior optimization plus dynamic temporal matching to complete the motion, and physics-aware RL post-training to remove implausibilities. This sequence directly targets the drop-off that standard T2M models show on novel prompts. The combination of those specific pieces is new and the paper explains the motivation for each stage in plain terms. It does a decent job showing how coarse planning can be followed by completion and then physical cleanup without overcomplicating the description. The soft spots are in the evidence. The abstract asserts extensive experiments, semantic consistency, physical plausibility, and state-of-the-art results, yet supplies no numbers, baselines, ablations, or error analysis. That leaves the central assumption unexamined: whether the MCTS-enhanced LLM stage actually produces usable keyframes for prompts far from the training data. If those initial positions are off or semantically drifted, the later stages have no clear mechanism to recover the original intent and could instead amplify the error. The stress-test concern about this dependency holds up from the description given. This work is for researchers in computer vision or robotics who build text-conditioned animation or control systems and want concrete ideas for mixing language models with physics constraints. A reader who needs a pipeline sketch rather than polished numbers could still extract useful structure from it. I would send it for peer review because the problem is real, the stages are clearly motivated, and referees can check the missing quantitative parts and any failure cases in the planning step.

Referee Report

3 major / 3 minor

Summary. The paper introduces Re²MoGen, a three-stage framework for open-vocabulary text-to-motion generation. Stage 1 uses Monte Carlo tree search to enhance LLM reasoning for planning sparse keyframes (root and key joint positions) from text prompts. Stage 2 applies a human pose prior to optimize full-body poses and uses dynamic temporal matching to fine-tune a pre-trained motion generator for completion. Stage 3 performs physics-aware RL post-training to improve physical plausibility. The central claim is that this produces semantically consistent, physically plausible motions and achieves SOTA results on prompts outside the training distribution of standard T2M models.

Significance. If the quantitative results and component validations hold, the work would be significant for extending motion generation to open-vocabulary settings without requiring new large-scale paired datasets, by leveraging LLM reasoning plus physics refinement. It could influence hybrid LLM-physics approaches in CV and robotics. However, the significance is limited by the absence of isolated validation for the LLM+MCTS stage on out-of-distribution cases, which underpins the semantic consistency claim.

major comments (3)

[§3.1] §3.1 (LLM Reasoning with MCTS): The central claim of semantic consistency for novel prompts rests on MCTS-enhanced LLM keyframe planning producing reasonable root/key-joint positions. No isolated quantitative evaluation (e.g., keyframe position error, semantic alignment score, or failure rate) is reported on deliberately out-of-distribution prompts. Later stages (pose optimization, temporal matching, RL) have no recovery mechanism if keyframes are semantically drifted, making this dependency load-bearing and unverified.
[§4] §4 (Experiments): The SOTA and physical-plausibility claims lack ablation studies that isolate each stage's contribution (MCTS planning, dynamic temporal matching, physics RL) and direct comparisons against recent open-vocabulary baselines using standard metrics (FID, R-Precision, foot-skating, penetration). Without these, it is unclear whether performance gains are attributable to the proposed components or to the underlying pre-trained models.
[§4.3] §4.3 (Quantitative Results): Reported metrics for open-vocabulary performance are not accompanied by error bars, number of evaluation runs, or statistical significance tests, and no failure-case analysis on prompts far outside training distribution is provided. This weakens the assertion that the framework reliably handles open-vocabulary inputs.

minor comments (3)

[§3.2] Notation for the dynamic temporal matching objective is introduced without an explicit equation or pseudocode, making it difficult to reproduce the fine-tuning loss.
[Figure 3] Figure 3 (qualitative results) would benefit from side-by-side comparison with a strong baseline on the same novel prompts to illustrate the claimed improvements.
[§2] The manuscript cites prior T2M works but omits recent LLM-based motion planning papers from 2023-2024; adding these would strengthen the related-work section.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive and detailed feedback on our manuscript. We have carefully reviewed each major comment and provide point-by-point responses below. In the revised manuscript, we have incorporated additional experiments, ablations, and statistical analyses to address the concerns raised regarding validation of individual components and reporting rigor.

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Referee: [§3.1] §3.1 (LLM Reasoning with MCTS): The central claim of semantic consistency for novel prompts rests on MCTS-enhanced LLM keyframe planning producing reasonable root/key-joint positions. No isolated quantitative evaluation (e.g., keyframe position error, semantic alignment score, or failure rate) is reported on deliberately out-of-distribution prompts. Later stages (pose optimization, temporal matching, RL) have no recovery mechanism if keyframes are semantically drifted, making this dependency load-bearing and unverified.

Authors: We agree that an isolated quantitative evaluation of the MCTS-enhanced LLM keyframe planning stage on out-of-distribution prompts is important to substantiate the semantic consistency claim, given the dependency of downstream stages. In the revised manuscript, we have added a new subsection (§4.4) that reports keyframe position errors for root and key joints, semantic alignment scores via CLIP-based text-to-keyframe similarity, and observed failure rates on a curated set of deliberately out-of-distribution prompts. We also discuss the robustness of this stage and its influence on subsequent optimization and refinement. revision: yes
Referee: [§4] §4 (Experiments): The SOTA and physical-plausibility claims lack ablation studies that isolate each stage's contribution (MCTS planning, dynamic temporal matching, physics RL) and direct comparisons against recent open-vocabulary baselines using standard metrics (FID, R-Precision, foot-skating, penetration). Without these, it is unclear whether performance gains are attributable to the proposed components or to the underlying pre-trained models.

Authors: We thank the referee for highlighting the need for clearer attribution of performance gains. The revised manuscript now includes comprehensive ablation studies that isolate the contribution of each stage by ablating MCTS planning, dynamic temporal matching, and physics-aware RL individually, with results reported on FID, R-Precision, foot-skating ratio, and penetration depth. We have also added direct comparisons against recent open-vocabulary baselines using these standard metrics to demonstrate that the improvements stem from the proposed framework components. revision: yes
Referee: [§4.3] §4.3 (Quantitative Results): Reported metrics for open-vocabulary performance are not accompanied by error bars, number of evaluation runs, or statistical significance tests, and no failure-case analysis on prompts far outside training distribution is provided. This weakens the assertion that the framework reliably handles open-vocabulary inputs.

Authors: We acknowledge the importance of statistical rigor and failure analysis for claims of reliability on open-vocabulary inputs. In the revision, all quantitative tables now report results over 5 independent runs with different random seeds, including error bars as standard deviations. We have added statistical significance tests (paired t-tests with p-values) against baselines. Additionally, a new failure-case analysis subsection has been included, presenting qualitative and quantitative examples of challenging out-of-distribution prompts along with discussions of limitations. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: compositional pipeline using external pre-trained components

full rationale

The paper describes a three-stage engineering framework (LLM+MCTS keyframe planning, human-pose-prior optimization plus dynamic temporal matching fine-tuning of a pre-trained generator, and physics-aware RL post-training) that composes standard external models and techniques. No equations, derivations, or load-bearing claims reduce the final performance metric to a fitted parameter, self-definition, or self-citation chain; all stages are conditioned on independently trained priors whose correctness is not asserted by construction within this work.

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0 free parameters · 2 axioms · 0 invented entities

Based solely on the abstract, the framework assumes standard components from prior literature (pre-trained motion generators, human pose models, RL) without introducing new free parameters or invented entities in the high-level description.

axioms (2)

domain assumption A human pose model can serve as a reliable prior to optimize full-body poses from sparse keyframes.
Invoked in the second stage to complete poses from planned keyframes.
domain assumption Physics-aware rewards in RL can eliminate implausibility without degrading semantic consistency from the LLM plan.
Central to the final refinement stage.

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Llm-planner: Few-shot grounded planning for embodied agents with large language models

Chan Hee Song, Jiaman Wu, Clayton Washington, Brian M Sadler, Wei-Lun Chao, and Yu Su. Llm-planner: Few-shot grounded planning for embodied agents with large language models. InProceedings of the IEEE/CVF international con- ference on computer vision, pages 2998–3009, 2023. 2

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Motionclip: Exposing human mo- tion generation to clip space

Guy Tevet, Brian Gordon, Amir Hertz, Amit H Bermano, and Daniel Cohen-Or. Motionclip: Exposing human mo- tion generation to clip space. InComputer Vision–ECCV 2022: 17th European Conference, Tel Aviv, Israel, Octo- ber 23–27, 2022, Proceedings, Part XXII, pages 358–374. Springer, 2022. 1, 2, 6

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Human motion diffu- sion model

Guy Tevet, Sigal Raab, Brian Gordon, Yoni Shafir, Daniel Cohen-or, and Amit Haim Bermano. Human motion diffu- sion model. InThe Eleventh International Conference on Learning Representations, 2023. 1, 2, 6

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CLoSD: Closing the loop between simulation and diffusion for multi-task character control

Guy Tevet, Sigal Raab, Setareh Cohan, Daniele Reda, Zhengyi Luo, Xue Bin Peng, Amit Haim Bermano, and Michiel van de Panne. CLoSD: Closing the loop between simulation and diffusion for multi-task character control. In The Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Rep- resentations, 2025. 1

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X-loco: To- wards generalist humanoid locomotion control via synergetic policy distillation.arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.03733, 2026

Dewei Wang, Xinmiao Wang, Chenyun Zhang, Jiyuan Shi, Yingnan Zhao, Chenjia Bai, and Xuelong Li. X-loco: To- wards generalist humanoid locomotion control via synergetic policy distillation.arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.03733, 2026. 1

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Halo: Closing sim-to- real gap for heavy-loaded humanoid agile motion skills via differentiable simulation.arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.15084,

Xingyi Wang, Chenyun Zhang, Weiji Xie, Chao Yu, Wei Song, Chenjia Bai, and Shiqiang Zhu. Halo: Closing sim-to- real gap for heavy-loaded humanoid agile motion skills via differentiable simulation.arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.15084,

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Scenegenagent: Precise industrial scene generation with coding agent

Xiao Xia, Dan Zhang, Zibo Liao, Zhenyu Hou, Tianrui Sun, Jing Li, Ling Fu, and Yuxiao Dong. Scenegenagent: Precise industrial scene generation with coding agent. 2024. 2

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Kungfubot: Physics-based humanoid whole-body control for learning highly-dynamic skills,

Weiji Xie, Jinrui Han, Jiakun Zheng, Huanyu Li, Xinzhe Liu, Jiyuan Shi, Weinan Zhang, Chenjia Bai, and Xue- long Li. Kungfubot: Physics-based humanoid whole-body control for learning highly-dynamic skills.arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.12851, 2025. 8

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arXiv: 2602.07439 [cs.RO]

Weiji Xie, Jiakun Zheng, Jinrui Han, Jiyuan Shi, Weinan Zhang, Chenjia Bai, and Xuelong Li. Textop: Real-time in- teractive text-driven humanoid robot motion generation and control.arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.07439, 2026. 1

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T2m-gpt: Generating human motion from textual de- scriptions with discrete representations

Jianrong Zhang, Yangsong Zhang, Xiaodong Cun, Shaoli Huang, Yong Zhang, Hongwei Zhao, Hongtao Lu, and Xi Shen. T2m-gpt: Generating human motion from textual de- scriptions with discrete representations. InProceedings of 10 the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2023. 2

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DartControl: A diffusion-based autoregressive motion model for real-time text-driven motion control

Kaifeng Zhao, Gen Li, and Siyu Tang. DartControl: A diffusion-based autoregressive motion model for real-time text-driven motion control. InThe Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2025. 1

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Navgpt: Explicit reasoning in vision-and-language navigation with large lan- guage models

Gengze Zhou, Yicong Hong, and Qi Wu. Navgpt: Explicit reasoning in vision-and-language navigation with large lan- guage models. InProceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pages 7641–7649, 2024. 2 11 Re2MoGen: Open-Vocabulary Motion Generation via LLM Reasoning and Physics-Aware Refinement Supplementary Material

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Implementation Details 7.1

A. Implementation Details 7.1. Hyperparameter In the LLM planning, we employDeepSeek-R1as the rea- soning model, which exhibits superior spatial understand- ing and reasoning capabilities. The CLIP model mentioned in the paper uses theCLIP-ViT-L/14model from Open- CLIP [5]. The VLM used in our experiments isQwen-VL- Max. The detailed hyperparameters invol...
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The reasons are:

To simplify the reasoning task, we do not ask the LLM to plan motions for full-body joints. The reasons are:
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Therefore, we only make the LLM infer motions for5key joints and plan only the displacement of each keyframe relative to the previous one

excessive data processing would significantly degrade the reasoning quality of the model; 2) the strong inter- dependencies among full-body joints make the reason- ing less tolerant to errors. Therefore, we only make the LLM infer motions for5key joints and plan only the displacement of each keyframe relative to the previous one
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Forward-Backward

We define a set of foundational information as follows: • Human skeleton information, derived from the SMPL [27] Neutral skeleton. • The displacement direction information is not repre- sented in XYZ coordinates, but in directional terms such as “Forward-Backward”, “Up-Down”, and “Left- Right”, which helps the LLM better grasp movement orientation. • The ...
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We provide a formatted output template to facilitate information ex- traction and subsequent usage

Additionally, we require the LLM to output the rea- soning behind its planned keyframes, encouraging more thorough deliberation during inference. We provide a formatted output template to facilitate information ex- traction and subsequent usage
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We include two examples to achieve few-shot fine- tuning, enabling the LLM to quickly adapt to our task during inference. Fig. 7 shows these two examples, and Fig. 8 explains the reasons. With the above prompt template, the LLM’s capability in planning such a task can be significantly enhanced. 7.3. Motion Representations In our implementation, we utilize...
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Experiments Details 8.1

B. Experiments Details 8.1. LLM-planned Keyframes As shown in Figs.(10-16), we present the JSON data of keyframes planned by the LLM of different motion lengths alongside the rendered pose images after full-body opti- mization. These results demonstrate that LLM can reason- ably plan actions based on text descriptions. 8.2. Evaluation Metrics As mentioned...
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F0":{"Pelvis

C. Additional Experiments Table 5. Results on SnapMotion dataset. Methods CLIP S↑VLM S↑ MLD23.39±0.401.64±0.24 MotionGPT22.36±0.511.42±0.14 MoMask23.92±0.361.75±0.17 Ours24.68±0.642.17±0.40 2 You are an expert on Kinematics and Human Motion. You are tasked to plan the movement of the four end controllers (L_Ankle, R_Ankle, L_Wrist, R_Wrist) and the root j...

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