MotionRL: Align Text-to-Motion Generation to Human Preferences with Multi-Reward Reinforcement Learning
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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Citing papers per year: 2024: 1; 2025: 5; 2026: 4.
10 papers.
- 2025ReAlign: Text-to-Motion Generation via Step-Aware Reward-Guided Alignmentcited by 10
- 2025IRG-MotionLLM: Interleaving Motion Generation, Assessment and Refinement for Text-to-Motion Generationcited by 4
- 2026SCRIPT: Scalable Diffusion Policy with Multi-stage Training for Language-driven Physics-Based Humanoid Controlcited by 4
- 2025Think Before You Move: Latent Motion Reasoning for Text-to-Motion Generationcited by 3
- 2024Fleximo: Towards Flexible Text-to-Human Motion Video Generationcited by 2
- 2025No MoCap Needed: Post-Training Motion Diffusion Models with Reinforcement Learning using Only Textual Promptscited by 1
- 2026Beyond MoCap: Scaling Motion Tokenizers with Synthetic Human Motion for Generative Modelingcited by 1
- 2025ReAlign: Bilingual Text-to-Motion Generation via Step-Aware Reward-Guided Alignmentcited by 0
- 2026MoRL: Reinforced Reasoning for Unified Motion Understanding and Generationcited by 0
- 2026MotionMERGE: A Multi-granular Framework for Human Motion Editing, Reasoning, Generation, and Explanationcited by 0
- 2026Beyond MoCap: Scaling Motion Tokenizers with Synthetic Human Motion for Generative Modeling25 Jun 2026
- 2026SCRIPT: Scalable Diffusion Policy with Multi-stage Training for Language-driven Physics-Based Humanoid Control21 May 2026
- 2026MotionMERGE: A Multi-granular Framework for Human Motion Editing, Reasoning, Generation, and Explanation18 May 2026
- 2026MoRL: Reinforced Reasoning for Unified Motion Understanding and Generation16 Feb 2026
- 2025Think Before You Move: Latent Motion Reasoning for Text-to-Motion Generation30 Dec 2025
- 2025IRG-MotionLLM: Interleaving Motion Generation, Assessment and Refinement for Text-to-Motion Generation11 Dec 2025
- 2025ReAlign: Text-to-Motion Generation via Step-Aware Reward-Guided Alignment24 Nov 2025
- 2025No MoCap Needed: Post-Training Motion Diffusion Models with Reinforcement Learning using Only Textual Prompts8 Oct 2025
- 2025ReAlign: Bilingual Text-to-Motion Generation via Step-Aware Reward-Guided Alignment8 May 2025
- 2024Fleximo: Towards Flexible Text-to-Human Motion Video Generation29 Nov 2024
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- 2024MoDiPO: text-to-motion alignment via AI-feedback-driven Direct Preference Optimization
- 2026MotionRFT: Unified Reinforcement Fine-Tuning for Text-to-Motion Generation
- 2024Exploring Text-to-Motion Generation with Human Preference
- 2025Motion-R1: Enhancing Motion Generation with Decomposed Chain-of-Thought and RL Binding
- 2025Improving Video Generation with Human Feedback
- 2026Aligning Human Sense: Calibrated Distributional Reward Learning for Video Generation
- 2024Diff-Instruct++: Training One-step Text-to-image Generator Model to Align with Human Preferences
- 2024Preference Tuning with Human Feedback on Language, Speech, and Vision Tasks: A Survey