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MotionRL: Align Text-to-Motion Generation to Human Preferences with Multi-Reward Reinforcement Learning

arXiv 2410.06513 ↗First posted 9 Oct 2024cs.CVcited by 10

On the map: LLM alignment / RLHF / preference optimisation → Diffusion and multimodal model alignment

Abstract (arXiv)

We introduce MotionRL, the first approach to utilize Multi-Reward Reinforcement Learning (RL) for optimizing text-to-motion generation tasks and aligning them with human preferences. Previous works focused on improving numerical performance metrics on the given datasets, often neglecting the variability and subjectivity of human feedback. In contrast, our novel approach uses reinforcement learning to fine-tune the motion generator based on human preferences prior knowledge of the human perception model, allowing it to generate motions that better align human preferences. In addition, MotionRL introduces a novel multi-objective optimization strategy to approximate Pareto optimality between text adherence, motion quality, and human preferences. Extensive experiments and user studies demonstrate that MotionRL not only allows control over the generated results across different objectives but also significantly enhances performance across these metrics compared to other algorithms.

Key facts. Cited by 10 papers in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). Placed in Diffusion and multimodal model alignment, one of 10 directions in LLM alignment / RLHF / preference optimisation. Builds on 29 of its 38 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 9 Oct 2024.

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References · 29

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Citing papers per year: 2024: 1; 2025: 5; 2026: 4.

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  1. 2024MoDiPO: text-to-motion alignment via AI-feedback-driven Direct Preference Optimization
  2. 2026MotionRFT: Unified Reinforcement Fine-Tuning for Text-to-Motion Generation
  3. 2024Exploring Text-to-Motion Generation with Human Preference
  4. 2025Motion-R1: Enhancing Motion Generation with Decomposed Chain-of-Thought and RL Binding
  5. 2025Improving Video Generation with Human Feedback
  6. 2026Aligning Human Sense: Calibrated Distributional Reward Learning for Video Generation
  7. 2024Diff-Instruct++: Training One-step Text-to-image Generator Model to Align with Human Preferences
  8. 2024Preference Tuning with Human Feedback on Language, Speech, and Vision Tasks: A Survey