FlowerDance: MeanFlow for Efficient and Refined 3D Dance Generation
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Abstract (arXiv)
Music-to-dance generation aims to translate auditory signals into expressive human motion, with broad applications in virtual reality, choreography, and digital entertainment. Despite promising progress, the limited generation efficiency of existing methods leaves insufficient computational headroom for high-fidelity 3D rendering, thereby constraining the expressiveness of 3D characters during real-world applications. Thus, we propose FlowerDance, which not only generates refined motion with physical plausibility and artistic expressiveness, but also achieves significant generation efficiency on inference speed and memory utilization. Specifically, FlowerDance combines MeanFlow with Physical Consistency Constraints, which enables high-quality motion generation with only a few sampling steps. Moreover, FlowerDance leverages a simple but efficient model architecture with BiMamba-based backbone and Channel-Level Cross-Modal Fusion, which generates dance with efficient non-autoregressive manner. Meanwhile, FlowerDance supports motion editing, enabling users to interactively refine dance sequences. Extensive experiments on AIST++ and FineDance show that FlowerDance achieves state-of-the-art results in both motion quality and generation efficiency. Code will be released upon acceptance.
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Citing papers per year: 2025: 2; 2026: 8.
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- 2025MACE-Dance: Motion-Appearance Cascaded Experts for Music-Driven Dance Video Generationcited by 9
- 2026PersonaGesture: Single-Reference Co-Speech Gesture Personalization for Unseen Speakerscited by 7
- 2025ActAvatar: Temporally-Aware Precise Action Control for Talking Avatarscited by 5
- 2026TokenDance: Token-to-Token Music-to-Dance Generation with Bidirectional Mambacited by 3
- 2026OmniDance: Multimodal Driven Dance Video Generation with Large-scale Internet Datacited by 3
- 2026Not All Frames Are Equal: Complexity-Aware Masked Motion Generation via Motion Spectral Descriptorscited by 2
- 2026BiTDiff: Fine-Grained 3D Conducting Motion Generation via BiMamba-Transformer Diffusioncited by 2
- 2026Interactive Multi-Turn Retrieval for Health Videoscited by 0
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- 2026StreamTalk: Streaming Co-Speech Gesture Generation with Key-Pose Anchoringcited by 0
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- 2026OmniDance: Multimodal Driven Dance Video Generation with Large-scale Internet Data29 Jun 2026
- 2026DiscoForcing: A Unified Framework for Real-Time Audio-Driven Character Control with Diffusion Forcing27 May 2026
- 2026PersonaGesture: Single-Reference Co-Speech Gesture Personalization for Unseen Speakers7 May 2026
- 2026Interactive Multi-Turn Retrieval for Health Videos2 May 2026
- 2026BiTDiff: Fine-Grained 3D Conducting Motion Generation via BiMamba-Transformer Diffusion6 Apr 2026
- 2026Not All Frames Are Equal: Complexity-Aware Masked Motion Generation via Motion Spectral Descriptors31 Mar 2026
- 2026TokenDance: Token-to-Token Music-to-Dance Generation with Bidirectional Mamba28 Mar 2026
- 2025ActAvatar: Temporally-Aware Precise Action Control for Talking Avatars22 Dec 2025
- 2025MACE-Dance: Motion-Appearance Cascaded Experts for Music-Driven Dance Video Generation20 Dec 2025