Learning Whole-Body Human-Humanoid Interaction from Human-Human Demonstrations

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2601.09518v1
• Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2026 14:37:06 GMT
• Title: Learning Whole-Body Human-Humanoid Interaction from Human-Human Demonstrations
• Authors: Wei-Jin Huang, Yue-Yi Zhang, Yi-Lin Wei, Zhi-Wei Xia, Juantao Tan, Yuan-Ming Li, Zhilin Zhao, Wei-Shi Zheng,
• Abstract summary: We introduce D-STAR, a hierarchical policy that disentangles when to act from where to act.<n>We validate our framework through extensive and rigorous simulations.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Enabling humanoid robots to physically interact with humans is a critical frontier, but progress is hindered by the scarcity of high-quality Human-Humanoid Interaction (HHoI) data. While leveraging abundant Human-Human Interaction (HHI) data presents a scalable alternative, we first demonstrate that standard retargeting fails by breaking the essential contacts. We address this with PAIR (Physics-Aware Interaction Retargeting), a contact-centric, two-stage pipeline that preserves contact semantics across morphology differences to generate physically consistent HHoI data. This high-quality data, however, exposes a second failure: conventional imitation learning policies merely mimic trajectories and lack interactive understanding. We therefore introduce D-STAR (Decoupled Spatio-Temporal Action Reasoner), a hierarchical policy that disentangles when to act from where to act. In D-STAR, Phase Attention (when) and a Multi-Scale Spatial module (where) are fused by the diffusion head to produce synchronized whole-body behaviors beyond mimicry. By decoupling these reasoning streams, our model learns robust temporal phases without being distracted by spatial noise, leading to responsive, synchronized collaboration. We validate our framework through extensive and rigorous simulations, demonstrating significant performance gains over baseline approaches and a complete, effective pipeline for learning complex whole-body interactions from HHI data.

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