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ReMoMask: Retrieval-Augmented Masked Motion Generation

arXiv 2508.02605 ↗First posted 4 Aug 2025cs.CVcited by 11

On the map: Retrieval-augmented generation → Multimodal RAG

Abstract (arXiv)

Text-to-Motion (T2M) generation aims to synthesize realistic and semantically aligned human motion sequences from natural language descriptions. However, current approaches face dual challenges: Generative models (e.g., diffusion models) suffer from limited diversity, error accumulation, and physical implausibility, while Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) methods exhibit diffusion inertia, partial-mode collapse, and asynchronous artifacts. To address these limitations, we propose ReMoMask, a unified framework integrating three key innovations: 1) A Bidirectional Momentum Text-Motion Model decouples negative sample scale from batch size via momentum queues, substantially improving cross-modal retrieval precision; 2) A Semantic Spatio-temporal Attention mechanism enforces biomechanical constraints during part-level fusion to eliminate asynchronous artifacts; 3) RAG-Classier-Free Guidance incorporates minor unconditional generation to enhance generalization. Built upon MoMask's RVQ-VAE, ReMoMask efficiently generates temporally coherent motions in minimal steps. Extensive experiments on standard benchmarks demonstrate the state-of-the-art performance of ReMoMask, achieving a 3.88% and 10.97% improvement in FID scores on HumanML3D and KIT-ML, respectively, compared to the previous SOTA method RAG-T2M. Code: https://github.com/AIGeeksGroup/ReMoMask. Website: https://aigeeksgroup.github.io/ReMoMask.

Key facts. Cited by 11 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026). Placed in Multimodal RAG, one of 15 directions in Retrieval-augmented generation. Builds on 29 of its 40 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 4 Aug 2025.

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29 of 40 references.

Closest ancestors · 3

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  1. 2025VideoRAG: Retrieval-Augmented Generation with Extreme Long-Context Videos3 Feb
  2. 2024MoRAG -- Multi-Fusion Retrieval Augmented Generation for Human Motion18 Sep
  3. 2023ReMoDiffuse: Retrieval-Augmented Motion Diffusion Model3 Apr

Other references · 26

  1. 2018BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understandingcited by 40,399
  2. 2021Learning Transferable Visual Models From Natural Language Supervisioncited by 33,744
  3. 2019DistilBERT, a distilled version of BERT: smaller, faster, cheaper and lightercited by 4,307
  4. 2020Dense Passage Retrieval for Open-Domain Question Answeringcited by 3,824
  5. 2023Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Large Language Models: A Surveycited by 2,212
  6. 2022MotionDiffuse: Text-Driven Human Motion Generation with Diffusion Modelcited by 780
  7. 2023Muse: Text-To-Image Generation via Masked Generative Transformerscited by 648
  8. 2019Passage Re-ranking with BERTcited by 645
  9. 2023T2M-GPT: Generating Human Motion from Textual Descriptions with Discrete Representationscited by 588
  10. 2023MotionGPT: Human Motion as a Foreign Languagecited by 527
  11. 2017MoCoGAN: Decomposing Motion and Content for Video Generationcited by 524
  12. 2022MotionCLIP: Exposing Human Motion Generation to CLIP Spacecited by 408
14 more
  1. 2023MoMask: Generative Masked Modeling of 3D Human Motionscited by 400
  2. 2022TM2T: Stochastic and Tokenized Modeling for the Reciprocal Generation of 3D Human Motions and Textscited by 359
  3. 2016The KIT Motion-Language Datasetcited by 338
  4. 2019Language2Pose: Natural Language Grounded Pose Forecastingcited by 257
  5. 2023TMR: Text-to-Motion Retrieval Using Contrastive 3D Human Motion Synthesiscited by 198
  6. 2021Text2Gestures: A Transformer-Based Network for Generating Emotive Body Gestures for Virtual Agentscited by 106
  7. 2023FineMoGen: Fine-Grained Spatio-Temporal Motion Generation and Editingcited by 106
  8. 2024ParCo: Part-Coordinating Text-to-Motion Synthesiscited by 55
  9. 2025Motion Anything: Any to Motion Generationcited by 42
  10. 2024MoGenTS: Motion Generation based on Spatial-Temporal Joint Modelingcited by 41
  11. 2024InfiniMotion: Mamba Boosts Memory in Transformer for Arbitrary Long Motion Generationcited by 23
  12. 2024Motion Avatar: Generate Human and Animal Avatars with Arbitrary Motioncited by 19
  13. 2024KMM: Key Frame Mask Mamba for Extended Motion Generationcited by 16
  14. 2024RMD: A Simple Baseline for More General Human Motion Generation via Training-free Retrieval-Augmented Motion Diffusecited by 7

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Citing papers per year: 2025: 2; 2026: 9.

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  1. 2023MMM: Generative Masked Motion Model
  2. 2024Text-driven Human Motion Generation with Motion Masked Diffusion Model
  3. 2024FTMoMamba: Motion Generation with Frequency and Text State Space Models
  4. 2026DiMo: Discrete Diffusion Modeling for Motion Generation and Understanding
  5. 2023Priority-Centric Human Motion Generation in Discrete Latent Space
  6. 2026Motion-Adapter: A Diffusion Model Adapter for Text-to-Motion Generation of Compound Actions
  7. 2024EnergyMoGen: Compositional Human Motion Generation with Energy-Based Diffusion Model in Latent Space
  8. 2023DiverseMotion: Towards Diverse Human Motion Generation via Discrete Diffusion