Motion-Adapter: A Diffusion Model Adapter for Text-to-Motion Generation of Compound Actions

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2604.16135v1
• Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2026 15:08:17 GMT
• Title: Motion-Adapter: A Diffusion Model Adapter for Text-to-Motion Generation of Compound Actions
• Abstract summary: We propose a plug-and-play module that guides text-to-motion diffusion models in generating compound actions.<n>Our method consistently produces more faithful and coherent compound motions across diverse textual prompts.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Recent advances in generative motion synthesis have enabled the production of realistic human motions from diverse input modalities. However, synthesizing compound actions from texts, which integrate multiple concurrent actions into coherent full-body sequences, remains a major challenge. We identify two key limitations in current text-to-motion diffusion models: (i) catastrophic neglect, where earlier actions are overwritten by later ones due to improper handling of temporal information, and (ii) attention collapse, which arises from excessive feature fusion in cross-attention mechanisms. As a result, existing approaches often depend on overly detailed textual descriptions (e.g., raising right hand), explicit body-part specifications (e.g., editing the upper body), or the use of large language models (LLMs) for body-part interpretation. These strategies lead to deficient semantic representations of physical structures and kinematic mechanisms, limiting the ability to incorporate natural behaviors such as greeting while walking. To address these issues, we propose the Motion-Adapter, a plug-and-play module that guides text-to-motion diffusion models in generating compound actions by computing decoupled cross-attention maps, which serve as structural masks during the denoising process. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our method consistently produces more faithful and coherent compound motions across diverse textual prompts, surpassing state-of-the-art approaches.

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