# InteractGesture: Progressive Chunk Guidance for Continuous Streaming Co-Speech Gesture Control

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.25734 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2608.25734/

## Key facts

- No citing papers in the map yet (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 47 of its 55 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 26 Aug 2026.

## Builds on (most cited first, 30 of 47)

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## Abstract (arXiv)

Co-speech gesture generation has made significant progress toward realistic full-body motion from speaker audio, yet existing models lack fine-grained spatial controllability of individual joints. To address this, we introduce InteractGesture, a model-agnostic, inference-time method for spatially controllable gesture generation. InteractGesture guides target latent estimates of a diffusion sampler through a differentiable RVQ-VAE decoder, backpropagating spatial control gradients to adjust motion latents during sampling. A primary challenge in streaming co-speech generation is chunk-wise dependency: standard sequential inference freezes prior chunks, preventing spatial constraints in future chunks from adjusting preceding trajectories and causing boundary inconsistencies. To overcome this limitation, we propose Progressive Chunk Guidance, a chunk-window strategy that maintains an active set of editable chunk latents with staggered delays, enabling spatial constraints to propagate gradients backward across chunk boundaries during streaming generation. Experiments on the BEAT2 dataset show that InteractGesture improves multi-joint spatial control while preserving overall gesture quality. Furthermore, our approach supports diverse applications, including sparse joint positioning, dense joint trajectory control, and directional pointing. Our project page is available at https://exitudio.github.io/interactgesture-page .