ReMoMask: Retrieval-Augmented Masked Motion Generation
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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- 2025VideoRAG: Retrieval-Augmented Generation with Extreme Long-Context Videos3 Feb
- 2024MoRAG -- Multi-Fusion Retrieval Augmented Generation for Human Motion18 Sep
- 2023ReMoDiffuse: Retrieval-Augmented Motion Diffusion Model3 Apr
Other references · 26
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- 2021Learning Transferable Visual Models From Natural Language Supervisioncited by 33,744
- 2019DistilBERT, a distilled version of BERT: smaller, faster, cheaper and lightercited by 4,307
- 2020Dense Passage Retrieval for Open-Domain Question Answeringcited by 3,824
- 2023Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Large Language Models: A Surveycited by 2,212
- 2022MotionDiffuse: Text-Driven Human Motion Generation with Diffusion Modelcited by 780
- 2023Muse: Text-To-Image Generation via Masked Generative Transformerscited by 648
- 2019Passage Re-ranking with BERTcited by 645
- 2023T2M-GPT: Generating Human Motion from Textual Descriptions with Discrete Representationscited by 588
- 2023MotionGPT: Human Motion as a Foreign Languagecited by 527
- 2017MoCoGAN: Decomposing Motion and Content for Video Generationcited by 524
- 2022MotionCLIP: Exposing Human Motion Generation to CLIP Spacecited by 408
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- 2023MoMask: Generative Masked Modeling of 3D Human Motionscited by 400
- 2022TM2T: Stochastic and Tokenized Modeling for the Reciprocal Generation of 3D Human Motions and Textscited by 359
- 2016The KIT Motion-Language Datasetcited by 338
- 2019Language2Pose: Natural Language Grounded Pose Forecastingcited by 257
- 2023TMR: Text-to-Motion Retrieval Using Contrastive 3D Human Motion Synthesiscited by 198
- 2021Text2Gestures: A Transformer-Based Network for Generating Emotive Body Gestures for Virtual Agentscited by 106
- 2023FineMoGen: Fine-Grained Spatio-Temporal Motion Generation and Editingcited by 106
- 2024ParCo: Part-Coordinating Text-to-Motion Synthesiscited by 55
- 2025Motion Anything: Any to Motion Generationcited by 42
- 2024MoGenTS: Motion Generation based on Spatial-Temporal Joint Modelingcited by 41
- 2024InfiniMotion: Mamba Boosts Memory in Transformer for Arbitrary Long Motion Generationcited by 23
- 2024Motion Avatar: Generate Human and Animal Avatars with Arbitrary Motioncited by 19
- 2024KMM: Key Frame Mask Mamba for Extended Motion Generationcited by 16
- 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.
11 papers.
- 2026Causal Motion Diffusion Models for Autoregressive Motion Generationcited by 10
- 2025IRG-MotionLLM: Interleaving Motion Generation, Assessment and Refinement for Text-to-Motion Generationcited by 6
- 2026SafeMo: Linguistically Grounded Unlearning for Trustworthy Text-to-Motion Generationcited by 6
- 2025Multimodal Data Storage and Retrieval for Embodied AI: A Surveycited by 2
- 2026PartRAG: Retrieval-Augmented Part-Level 3D Generation and Editingcited by 1
- 2026Retrieving and Refining Winning Noise Tickets for Diffusion-Based Motion Generationcited by 1
- 2026MoRL: Reinforced Reasoning for Unified Motion Understanding and Generationcited by 0
- 2026Towards Highly-Constrained Human Motion Generation with Retrieval-Guided Diffusion Noise Optimizationcited by 0
- 2026InterCMDM: Block-Causal Diffusion for Autoregressive Human Interaction Generationcited by 0
- 2026ReMoMask-2: Latent Retrieval-Augmented Masked Motion Generationcited by 0
- 2026BiMoGen: Bidirectional Motion-Text Generation via Unified Masked Discrete Diffusioncited by 0
- 2026BiMoGen: Bidirectional Motion-Text Generation via Unified Masked Discrete Diffusion28 Sep 2026
- 2026ReMoMask-2: Latent Retrieval-Augmented Masked Motion Generation8 Sep 2026
- 2026Retrieving and Refining Winning Noise Tickets for Diffusion-Based Motion Generation7 Jul 2026
- 2026InterCMDM: Block-Causal Diffusion for Autoregressive Human Interaction Generation2 Jul 2026
- 2026Towards Highly-Constrained Human Motion Generation with Retrieval-Guided Diffusion Noise Optimization8 May 2026
- 2026Causal Motion Diffusion Models for Autoregressive Motion Generation26 Feb 2026
- 2026PartRAG: Retrieval-Augmented Part-Level 3D Generation and Editing19 Feb 2026
- 2026MoRL: Reinforced Reasoning for Unified Motion Understanding and Generation16 Feb 2026
- 2026SafeMo: Linguistically Grounded Unlearning for Trustworthy Text-to-Motion Generation2 Jan 2026
- 2025IRG-MotionLLM: Interleaving Motion Generation, Assessment and Refinement for Text-to-Motion Generation11 Dec 2025
- 2025Multimodal Data Storage and Retrieval for Embodied AI: A Survey19 Aug 2025
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