ARDY: Autoregressive Diffusion with Hybrid Representation for Interactive Human Motion Generation
Researchers introduced ARDY, a streaming generation framework that enables real-time synthesis of 3D human motions with text and kinematic control, bridging the gap between offline precision and online speed. The method addresses limitations in existing online approaches regarding controllability and complex text semantics.
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