SeMoCo: A Semantic-First Motion Codec for Motion Language Modeling

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.24334v2
• Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2026 17:17:03 GMT
• Title: SeMoCo: A Semantic-First Motion Codec for Motion Language Modeling
• Abstract summary: We introduce SeMoCo, a semantic-first motion, together with a dual-axis motion generator for language-conditioned motion generation.<n>We also construct $$-MotionVerse, a large-scale, multi-source human-motion dataset unified under the SOMA representation.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Discrete motion representations have substantially advanced autoregressive text-to-motion generation. However, most motion tokenizers are optimized for reconstruction and do not explicitly allocate capacity according to semantic role. Action-level meaning and fine-grained kinematic detail must therefore be encoded through the same reconstruction-driven hierarchy. We introduce SeMoCo, a semantic-first motion codec, together with a dual-axis motion generator for language-conditioned motion generation. Each motion token contains one semantic token and a residual sequence of kinematic tokens. The generator models semantic progression across time and autoregressively refines the residual entries. We also construct $Ω$-MotionVerse, a large-scale, multi-source human-motion dataset unified under the SOMA representation. Across the reported comparisons, SeMoCo achieves the best reconstruction accuracy among the compared codecs, while strong text-to-motion results demonstrate the effectiveness of its motion tokens for downstream generation.

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