Improving the Diffusability of Motion Tokenizer

Guanhe Huang, Songqiao Han, Tangzheng Lian, Oya Celiktutan

Latent diffusion models paired with a variational auto-encoder (VAE) tokenizer have shown promising performance for efficient text-driven human motion generation. However, motion latent diffusion suffers from a generation-reconstruction trade-off: simply increasing tokenizer capacity enhances reconstruction but fails to proportionally improve text-conditioned generation quality. We assume this trade-off stems from a spectral mismatch inside the VAE tokenizer: the encoder yields a latent space biased toward high frequencies, and the decoder introduces temporal artifacts. In this paper, we propose the Diffusable Motion Tokenizer (DiMoT) to improve the diffusability of the tokenizer, rather than scaling up the diffusion backbone. To improve text-conditioned optimization, Critic Spectral Adaptation (CSA) leverages a pretrained diffusion model as the critic to suppress high-frequency latent energy. To preserve motion dynamics, the Alpha-Flow Motion Decoder (AMD) performs generative decoding via average-velocity prediction, enabling efficient one-step decoding. Extensive experiments demonstrate that DiMoT achieves state-of-the-art performance across various challenging text-to-motion…