AlignHuman: Improving Motion and Fidelity via Timestep-Segment Preference Optimization for Audio-Driven Human Animation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11144v1
• Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2025 05:33:03 GMT
• Title: AlignHuman: Improving Motion and Fidelity via Timestep-Segment Preference Optimization for Audio-Driven Human Animation
• Authors: Chao Liang, Jianwen Jiang, Wang Liao, Jiaqi Yang, Zerong zheng, Weihong Zeng, Han Liang,
• Abstract summary: We propose textbfAlignHuman, a framework that combines Preference Optimization as a post-training technique with a divide-and-conquer training strategy.<n>LoRAs are trained using their respective preference data and activated in the corresponding intervals during inference to enhance motion naturalness and fidelity.<n>Experiments demonstrate that AlignHuman improves strong baselines and reduces NFEs during inference, achieving a 3.3$times$ speedup.
• Score: 24.745851101654612
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: Recent advancements in human video generation and animation tasks, driven by diffusion models, have achieved significant progress. However, expressive and realistic human animation remains challenging due to the trade-off between motion naturalness and visual fidelity. To address this, we propose \textbf{AlignHuman}, a framework that combines Preference Optimization as a post-training technique with a divide-and-conquer training strategy to jointly optimize these competing objectives. Our key insight stems from an analysis of the denoising process across timesteps: (1) early denoising timesteps primarily control motion dynamics, while (2) fidelity and human structure can be effectively managed by later timesteps, even if early steps are skipped. Building on this observation, we propose timestep-segment preference optimization (TPO) and introduce two specialized LoRAs as expert alignment modules, each targeting a specific dimension in its corresponding timestep interval. The LoRAs are trained using their respective preference data and activated in the corresponding intervals during inference to enhance motion naturalness and fidelity. Extensive experiments demonstrate that AlignHuman improves strong baselines and reduces NFEs during inference, achieving a 3.3$\times$ speedup (from 100 NFEs to 30 NFEs) with minimal impact on generation quality. Homepage: \href{https://alignhuman.github.io/}{https://alignhuman.github.io/}

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