fix(anim): text-to-motion v8.0 — template-taught model, correct facing, knee fix (#837) - #963
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…tool (#837) The curated V2 library carries 41 clips (27%) whose gait is deliberately NON-HUMAN: Half-Life/Quaternius zombies shamble with a bent spine and a dragging, splayed stride (incl. 5 walks + 1 run), and produce characters (Avacado, FruitLoop) are legless blobs whose canonical limbs are only placeholders. Flow matching samples the distribution it is given, so those clips surface on ordinary human prompts. prep-t2m-v6.py gains --exclude-sources (regex, default zombie|avacado|avocado|fruit|banana|melon|undead|ghoul), applied uniformly to all three sources — corpus, folded-in library takes, and CMU — through one excluded() closure that counts and reports the drops. Pass '' to disable. Also adds scripts/eval-t2m-posture.py: runs a t2m ONNX and reports the posture metrics that actually gate shipping (spineY / chestY / headY / worst-arm hang / foot fwd-side stride ratio) as BOTH best-of-N and mean, optionally beside the training-data reference. The v6/v6.1 numbers were tracked by hand in EVAL_NOTES.md, so there was no repeatable way to compare two models; the mean-vs-best split also makes the known walk SAMPLE VARIANCE visible (shipped v6.1 measures best-of-6 fwd/side 3.21 but mean 1.76 — which is why MotionGenerator ranks 16 candidates). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…837) A 400-epoch run degraded from 84s/epoch to ~16min/epoch (11x) around ep84 and parked the process in uninterruptible wait (ps stat "UN") at ~1% CPU. sample(1) put 1925 of 1981 stacks in at::native::_local_scalar_dense_mps -> at::native::mps::mps_copy_ -> MPSStream::copy_and_sync -> -[_MTLCommandBuffer waitUntilCompleted] i.e. the per-batch `tot += loss.item()`. `.item()` is a GPU->CPU sync that drains the entire MPS queue, ~97x per epoch here; over a long run the MPS allocator degrades until each drain stalls. Accumulate the epoch loss on device (`tot += loss.detach()`) and sync ONCE per epoch when printing. Note the process is both victim and cause of the memory pressure that accompanies the stall — free memory fell to ~146MB with 597k compressor pages while stalled and recovered to ~8.8GB the moment it was stopped, so "low free memory" is a symptom to look past, not the root cause. Also adds scripts/export-t2m-from-ckpt.py: the trainer only exports ONNX after its final epoch, leaving a ~9h run unobservable. This rebuilds the sampler-unrolled ONNX from any <out>/ckpt.pt (inferring dim/layers from the checkpoint's own tensor shapes) so a run in progress can be scored with eval-t2m-posture.py at milestones — which is how the ep75 read that caught walk lagging was taken. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ng walk (#837) Pure inverse-frequency class balancing draws every action equally often, which on the v6.2 cache means the actions that matter get starved: walk 7688 windows 30.85% of data -> 4.35% of draws (0.14x) jump 3408 13.67% -> 4.35% (0.32x) confession 16 0.06% -> 4.35% (67.7x) So the model spends as much capacity memorising a 16-window curiosity as on 7688 walk windows. Measured consequence: walk foot fwd/side plateaued at ~2.6 from ep167 to ep247 (+0.04 over 40 epochs) while the training loss kept falling 0.0525 -> 0.0500 — the model was converging on everything except the action the metric cares about. For reference the shipped v6.1 measures 3.588 best-of-12 on the same metric. --balance-power tempers the exponent: 1.0 keeps the old inverse-frequency behaviour (default, so existing runs are unchanged), 0.5 is sqrt-tempered (walk 16.09%, run still 2.77%, confession 0.73%), 0.0 is the raw distribution. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The posture eval only measured per-joint aim directions, which are blind to two failure modes that show up in renders: - whole-body PITCH about the root: the spine can aim "up" within its own canonical frame while the entire body is rotated toward horizontal, so spineY stays ~0.97 on a body that renders near-horizontal. torsoUp FK's the hip->head axis and takes its world up-component instead, and it is weighted 3x in the best-of-N rank so a pitched draw can never win. - COLLAPSED legs: a draw whose legs fuse into one mass still scores fine on every aim metric. ankleSpread FK's both ankles (roles 17/21) and reports their mean separation. Both use the same forward kinematics the retarget uses, so they measure what actually renders. Reference values on the v6.2 walk data: torsoUp 0.998, ankleSpread 1.120. These were added while chasing an apparent "diving" render, which they then disproved: both models measure torsoUp ~0.99 and on-distribution ankleSpread, and re-rendering the same clip from a side azimuth showed it upright with separated legs. The dive was a projection artefact of viewing a +Z-facing character head-on from behind at elevation 0 — for stride verification use `--elevation 0 --start-azimuth 90`, never the default rear azimuth. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ness (#837) User report: generated clips render with the character facing the camera but the limbs moving as if it faced away — on BOTH Mixamo and UniRig skeletons. Measured cause. A correct walk pairs the LEFT leg forward with the RIGHT arm forward, so corr(Lankle_z, Rwrist_z) > 0. On the v6.2 cache: training data +0.625 contralateral / -0.578 ipsilateral, 92% correct sign v6.2-sqrt ep400 +0.324 / -0.363, only 75% correct v6.1 shipped +0.212 / -0.207, only 67% correct So the data has clean gait but both models degrade it: ~1 in 4 draws swings the arms on the wrong side, which is exactly what "moving as if facing backwards" looks like. Nothing in the flow-matching objective constrained the pairing. --phase-weight adds a hinge on that correlation, applied to LOCOMOTION rows only (--phase-actions, default walk,run,march) and computed on the clean sample reconstructed from the predicted velocity (x1 = x_t + (1-t)v), through differentiable canonical FK that mirrors prep-t2m-v6/eval-t2m-posture exactly — so the supervised quantity is the one the metrics and the retarget read. The term averages both body sides, so it cannot prefer one chirality. Default 0 = off, existing runs unchanged. Validated before use: the term scores the real data +0.51 walk / +0.61 run / +0.43 march and ~0.000 on `sit` (correctly neutral for non-locomotion), and backprops finite gradients through d6_to_quat. Two other candidate fixes were investigated and REJECTED on measurement, not opinion: - mirror augmentation is NOT the culprit: mirrored windows preserve phase (+0.664 -> +0.639, sign flips in 2%). - flipping the D_CANON foot direction to -Z (making toe-forward agree with the shoulder-derived -Z forward) helps walk (89->94% correct) but hurts run (98->97%) and badly hurts march (96->72%); an initial 93->100% reading was a 60-window small-sample artefact. D_CANON is self-consistent as a convention since the model output and restDir come from the same table. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…wards (#837) User report, after the gait-phase loss landed: "run and march are still backwards, but good — they are just moving backwards", and "the walk got all twisted". Two separate bugs, both measured. 1. D_CANON had the LEFT arm chain (roles 6-9) on -X and the RIGHT (10-13) on +X — inverted. Both the file's own docstring ("left arm +X, right arm -X") and AnimationMerger.cpp ("canonical axes X=left, Y=up, Z=forward" / "canonical left joints expect +X") specify left = +X, so the table contradicted its own spec in two places. Consequence: every clip's shoulder-derived forward pointed -Z while the runtime treats clips as +Z-facing, so detectBackwardFacing compensated with a whole-clip 180 yaw. That fixed the BODY's facing but not the limbs, which is exactly the reported symptom. Stance-foot travel vs the body's own forward, on the v6.2 cache: before walk -0.209 (40% forward) run -0.785 (7%) march -0.334 (32%) after walk +0.209 (60% forward) run +0.785 (93%) march +0.334 (68%) An exact sign inversion — the signature of a swapped-chirality frame. The trainer's DIR_CANON copy is synced and asserted equal. 2. The phase loss found a DEGENERATE shortcut: rather than fix limb timing it rotated the torso ~180 deg so the existing swing reads as contralateral. Measured hip->chest yaw at --phase-weight 0.15: 170 deg, vs 6.3 deg in the data and 6.7 deg in v6.2 — the visible "twisted walk". --twist-weight adds a hinge on that yaw (free below ~20 deg, linear above), closing the escape route so the phase reward can only be earned by real timing. Validated: zero penalty on real data (3.2 deg), 2.74 on a synthetic 180-deg twist. Both fixes change the canonical frame, so the cache must be rebuilt. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Travel direction was not converging: measured dot(travel, body-forward) on the chirality-fixed run went 58%/42%/50% forward at ep80 to 56%/25%/31% at ep184 — WORSE with more training, so it was never an under-training problem. Cause: the cache is genuinely BIMODAL in travel direction. Walk has a real backward mode (2792 of 7608 windows, mean -0.810, vs the forward mode's +0.738). Flow matching samples the conditional, so the model walked backward roughly half the time — the user-reported symptom that survived the D_CANON chirality fix. Two sources, both fixed: 1. mirror() reflected quats as (x, -y, -z, w), which flips the FORWARD (Z) axis as well as the lateral one — so every augmented window travelled the opposite way and the augmentation manufactured a backward twin for free. The correct sagittal (left<->right) mirror is (-x, y, z, -w) + the L/R role swap: it inverts only the lateral axis and preserves forward/up. Verified on 40 forward-travelling walk windows: mirrored travel stays forward in 100% of cases (was 0%), contralateral phase preserved (90%), quats unit-norm to 1.2e-07, and it is a genuine mirror not a no-op — mirror-left tracks original-right (0.358 vs 0.773), lateral X flips (+0.179 -> -0.179) while forward Z is preserved (+0.562 -> +0.562). 2. Some SOURCE clips really do walk backward. window_quality() now gates locomotion windows on travel_forward() >= MIN_TRAVEL_FORWARD (0.15), the same stance-foot metric, so the residual mode is dropped rather than learned. Requires another cache rebuild + retrain from scratch. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…wards gait (#837) Even with a 100%-forward, unimodal training set (v6.5 cache, after the mirror fix + travel gate), the model still emitted ~50% forward travel at ep40: walk travel -0.009 (50% fwd) run +0.111 (62%) march +0.017 (56%) Ruled out a measurement artefact first: the model's stance-foot drift magnitude is 73% of the data's (0.0337 vs 0.0460), so the feet really are moving and the direction is genuinely ambiguous, not noise-dominated. Flow matching has no term tying the emitted gait to a direction of travel, and the previous run showed this does NOT self-correct — travel got WORSE from ep80 to ep184 (run 42% -> 25%). So supervise it directly rather than spend another 7h rediscovering that. --travel-weight hinges dot(travel, body-forward) toward +0.5 on locomotion rows only, using the same stance-foot definition as prep-t2m-v6.travel_forward and the eval, through the differentiable canonical FK. Validated before use: scores real data +0.62 walk / +0.80 run / +0.82 march at 100% forward with small hinge penalties, punishes a time-REVERSED walk (-0.342, hinge 0.84), emits finite gradients (norm 7.0), and scores `sit` at +0.023 with a large hinge — which is exactly why the term is gated to locomotion actions. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…able (#837) d11f17d swapped D_CANON roles 6-9 with 10-13 on the premise that 6-9 were the LEFT arm chain. They are not. AnimationMerger.cpp kParentCanon documents: 6-9 rcollar, rshoulder, relbow, rhand <- RIGHT 10-13 lcollar, lshoulder, lelbow, lhand <- LEFT 14-17 rbuttock, rhip, rknee, rfoot <- RIGHT 18-21 lbuttock, lhip, lknee, lfoot <- LEFT confirmed independently by compensateCanonicalHandedness(), which reads `lx = worldXForCanon(19)` (LEFT leg) against `rx = worldXForCanon(15)` (RIGHT). The "X=left" note in the axis comment describes the AXIS convention, not the role order — I misread it as the latter. So roles 6-9 (RIGHT) on -X was already correct, and the swap inverted it. Cost: a ~120 deg shoulder-vs-hip yaw in the cache where real gait counter-rotates 10-20 deg — the anatomically twisted torso the user reported from the GUI. Reverting drops it to ~59 deg on the same windows. The travel-direction sign flip that appeared to justify the swap was real but was a SYMPTOM of measuring travel with a mirrored frame, not evidence that the role order was wrong. Both D_CANON and the trainer's DIR_CANON copy are reverted and asserted equal. The v6.5 cache and model were built with the broken table and are discarded. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…e gait (#837) At ep30 on the corrected v66 data the signs were finally right (travel +0.475 at 92% forward, contra +0.647 at 100%) but the close-up RENDER showed a knee-to-chest exaggerated march, not a walk. The metrics agreed once I looked at excursion: stride 3.46 and armSwing 3.73 against real Mixamo walk values of 0.765 and 1.718 — a ~4.5x over-drive. Both the phase and travel hinges REWARD motion, and nothing bounded the amplitude. --amp-weight penalises only the EXCESS above generous ceilings (stride 1.6, swing 3.0, roughly 2x the real-walk values), so ordinary motion is untouched. Validated before use: real Walk.fbx scores 0.0000, the v66 training walk 0.0016 (8% of windows above the ceiling), the over-driven ep30 model 2.5577. Real Running.fbx scores 0.347 — correctly reflecting that a run legitimately has a larger excursion than a walk, which is why the ceilings are set above walk values rather than at them. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
THE defect that made every amplitude metric lie, and the reason renders looked
static while the numbers looked healthy.
Round-trip proof: the ep90 model's canonical ankle "scissor" measured 0.955 —
LARGER than the real Mixamo walk's 0.652 — yet after retarget and re-extraction
it was 0.241, and 8 rendered frames showed the legs barely moving. Measuring
joint SPEED instead of amplitude explained it:
v66 training walk 0.0557 rad/frame (band 0.032-0.099)
ep90 model output 0.2661 rad/frame (6x the data mean)
ep90 worst joint 1.4165 rad/frame (~81 deg/frame, physically impossible;
~20x the data's worst joint)
So the model was producing high-frequency jitter. The retarget's smoothing
damped it to 0.041, leaving no coherent stride — while every metric I had built
(stride, armSwing, ankleSpread) reads amplitude, which jitter inflates. That is
why travel/contra/armSwing/stride all hit target at ep90 on a broken render.
--jitter-weight penalises mean per-joint angular speed above 0.12 rad/frame plus
the worst single joint above 0.40, applied to ALL actions since jitter is never
wanted. Validated: real Walk.fbx and the walk/jump training windows all score
0.0000 (dance 0.0059, 10% of windows), while the ep90 model scores 0.6134.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The ceiling-only jitter penalty removed the noise and the motion with it. At ep30 the mean joint speed fell 0.353 -> 0.227 and the render went smooth but nearly STATIC — legs barely separating, arms pinned — with contra regressing 0.345 -> 0.284 while every other metric improved. Jitter and stride were entangled: the amplitude metrics had been counting the noise, so suppressing it removed what they were measuring. Pushing the speed below a ceiling is therefore not enough; the objective has to pull it TOWARD the data band (walk mean 0.056, real Walk.fbx 0.059). jitter_excess() now penalises both sides — above 0.10 and, at 4x weight, below 0.045 — plus the worst joint above 0.45. Validated: real Walk.fbx 0.0000, data walk 0.0006 (4% of windows), run 0.0144 and jump 0.0274 (legitimately more variable), and a synthetically FROZEN clip scores 0.1761, confirming too-slow is now penalised as well as too-fast. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
… data (#837) Two calibration faults in amplitude_excess, both found by measuring the guard contributions instead of guessing which weight to change next. 1. NOTHING DEFENDED AMPLITUDE FROM BELOW. At v6.7 ep45 the jitter term was 80% of the guard loss (0.1446 of 0.181) while amp contributed exactly 0.0000, and armSwing/stride fell 1.481/1.126 -> 0.894/0.690 — below the real walk's 1.718/0.765. The limbs were collateral damage of jitter pushing speed down, with no term objecting. amplitude_excess is now two-sided, floors weighted 2x. 2. THE CEILING WAS BELOW THE DATA. The stride ceiling of 1.6 sat under the all-action p95 of 2.969 (p99 3.326), so it had been clipping legitimate march, climb and kick motion the whole time. Ceilings raised to 3.5/3.7, just above the data p99. Catching genuine over-drive is the jitter band's job, not this term's. Floors are calibrated to WALK's data p5 (stride 0.741, swing 0.809) and gated to walk rows only: march's stride p5 is 1.174, so a global floor penalised 81% of real march windows. Note the floors follow the TRAINING data, not the reference Mixamo clip, whose swing (1.718) sits well above this corpus's median (1.052). Validated: real Walk.fbx 0.0000; training data walk 0.0052, run 0.0048, march 0.0266; a frozen clip 2.9000; and the collapsed v6.7 ep45 model is now penalised (0.0982) where before it scored 0.0000. v6.8 raises amp-weight 0.1 -> 0.4 now that the term is correctly two-sided. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…rch (#837) v6.8's walk render is good, but run and march came out too gentle to tell apart from a walk. Instrumenting the prep pipeline's drop counts per filter (rather than reasoning about it) found three gates inherited from the walk-focused v6.1 work, each rejecting legitimate non-walk motion: 1. ENERGY CEILING (the big one). A single 0.11 rad/frame bound, but the real Mixamo clips measure walk 0.059 and **run 0.187** — a genuine run FAILS the gate. Five of the twelve curated `run` clips died on it (0.13-0.22), leaving run to train on 24-36 windows. The ceiling is now action-aware: 0.26 for FAST_ACTIONS (run/march/jump/kick/punch/boxing/attack/throw/dance), 0.11 retained for walk. Run windows 36 -> 76, dance 2548 -> 4560. 2. STRIDE-DIRECTIONALITY GATE vs MARCH. The fwd/side >= 2.0 gate catches splayed sideways walking, but marching lifts the knees IN PLACE, so its fore/aft travel is legitimately low — CMU march windows have a median ratio of 1.56 and only 36% clear 2.0, so the gate discarded 64% of the data. March is now exempt; walk keeps the gate. 3. SHORT-CLIP FLOOR. `nF < T//2` returned before the cycle-repeat logic could run, and 11 of 12 curated run clips are 20-27 frames (game run cycles are short loops). 10 of those 11 loop cleanly (cyc <= 0.24, most exactly 0.000), so clips >= 16 frames that loop are now admitted and repeated; non-loops are still rejected because their repeat would visibly jump. Also relaxes the travel gate to > 0 for non-walk actions (walk keeps 0.15). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
… p95 (#837) After the run/march data recovery, v7.2's run render finally had genuine knee lift and arm swing (v6.8's run was indistinguishable from its walk) — but the WALK render regressed: arms tucked, minimal leg separation. Diagnosed by measurement, and my first hypothesis was wrong. Sampling shares barely moved (walk 10.56% -> 9.81%), so it was not sampling dilution. What did change: the cache's overall energy rose 0.0429 -> 0.0550 (p90 0.078 -> 0.113) while WALK-only energy stayed at 0.0510. The faster fast-action windows pull the shared model and walk inherits the speed — a conditioning problem, and the jitter band was action-blind. jitter_excess() now takes per-sample hi/lo, and the bands come from the data's measured per-action mean-speed medians on the v72 cache: run 0.110, dance 0.095, punch 0.064, walk 0.055, march 0.050, jump 0.042 So only run and dance get the raised ceiling (0.22 vs walk's 0.10). Notably march is NOT fast by this metric — it is close to walk — and an earlier cut that lumped march in with run and raised its FLOOR to 0.10 penalised 96% of real march windows. The floor is now a uniform low 0.035. Validated: data walk 0.0000, run 0.0073 (20% of windows), march 0.0069 (19%), dance 0.0489; a frozen clip still scores 0.1361. Real Mixamo running drops from 0.1425 on the walk band to 0.0553 on the fast band. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
User render feedback: "the model is not moving, it keeps just trembling in weird positions". Every metric I had built said the model was healthy, so the metrics were the problem. Measuring PERIODICITY — autocorrelation of the ankle-scissor signal at lag >= 8 — explains it: real Mixamo Walk.fbx +0.968 (near-perfect cycle) Rumba's own mixamo clip +0.712 generated_march +0.187 (no cycle) The exported clip's joint speed was 0.0574, squarely inside the real-motion band, so the motion had the right MAGNITUDE with no cyclic STRUCTURE. That is what trembling in place is. Every prior metric (travel, contra, twist, amplitude, speed) is an average or a correlation that non-cyclic twitching satisfies just as well — none of them can see a cycle. The data is the deeper cause: walk's median periodicity is only 0.446 with 26% of windows above 0.6, and the model reproduced about half of that (0.26). It was never shown a clean gait. 814 strongly-periodic locomotion windows do exist (walk 692, run 43, march 79), so window_quality() now requires >= 0.6 for locomotion. Cache: walk 2704 -> 584, run 76 -> 44, march 340 -> 52 — much smaller but actual gait, and cleanliness over volume is what unlocked every previous step here. Also adds joint_hinge_signs() for the requested knee/elbow backward-bend guard, but leaves it UNGATED and documents why: two sign conventions both rejected real Mixamo clips (details in the docstring), and an unsigned bound cannot separate "bent 75 deg forward" from "bent 75 deg backward". A correct guard needs each rig's bind-pose hinge axis, which the canonical frame does not carry. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ak (#837) Gating the DATA to >= 0.6 periodicity was not enough. v7.3 trained only on cyclic windows and its output periodicity still fell 0.293 -> 0.247 by ep30 — no better than the v6.8 model that rendered as trembling. Same lesson as travel direction: flow matching does not inherit a property because the data has it. If it is not in the loss, it is not in the output. --period-weight adds a differentiable aperiodicity penalty: 1 minus the best autocorrelation of the ankle-scissor signal over lags 8..T/2, so it is agnostic to cadence. Validated: real Mixamo Walk 0.049, random noise 0.704, finite gradients. Building it exposed a REAL BUG in the prep. The loss scored the supposedly >=0.6-gated data at 0.43-0.51 aperiodicity, which should have been impossible. Two causes: - the torch lag range (10..29) did not match the numpy gate's (8..T/2) and so missed slower cadences. Now matched. - more seriously, the mirror and retime AUGMENTATIONS were added without re-running window_quality(), so augmented copies bypassed every gate. 18% of the "periodicity-gated" walk windows were actually below the bar (min 0.200) — retime() resamples the window and can break the cycle at its edges, which is exactly the property being gated on. Augmentations are now re-gated. Verified: walk windows go 584 (min 0.200, 18% below bar) -> 467 (min 0.601, 0% below bar). Note this leak silently weakened EVERY earlier gate too — uprightness, arm-hang, stride ratio, travel direction — since all of them were bypassed the same way. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…r bit (#837) The explicit periodicity loss did not move the metric either (0.234 at v7.4 ep15, versus 0.264 for the trembling v6.8 and 0.247 for data-gating alone). Before assuming the loss was wrong, I measured whether it was reaching any rows. It was not. The periodicity gate shrank walk/run/march to 467/39/41 windows out of 19693 while the other 21 actions kept theirs, so locomotion was just 7.1% of sampled batches — about 18 rows of 256. Every gait term (phase, travel, period, and the amp floor) is gated to locomotion rows and divided by their count, so they were structurally weak no matter what weight I gave them. The model was spending 93% of its capacity on non-locomotion actions. balance-power alone cannot fix this: at bp=1.0 every action gets an equal share, so the three locomotion actions cap at 3/24 = 12.5%. --loco-boost multiplies walk/run/march sampling weight directly. Measured shares: x4 -> 23.3%, x6 -> 31.3%, x10 -> 43.2%. Running x6, and the trainer now prints the achieved share at startup so this is never invisible again. This is the second time a fix looked ineffective when the real problem was that it never reached the data — the first was the amplitude term contributing exactly 0.0000 while jitter dominated at 80%. Measuring each term's actual contribution and reach should be the first step, not the last. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…#837) Two bugs in the periodicity metric I introduced, both of which made it reward the very defect it was added to catch. 1. LAG FLOOR TOO LOW. The search started at 8 frames (0.27 s). The corpus's median best-lag came out at exactly 8 — the gate was accepting high-frequency WOBBLE as "periodic", and the model dutifully learned it, which is the trembling the user reported. Measured at true gait cadence (20-30 frames, one stride) the real Mixamo walk scores 0.968 while the gated corpus median is -0.379: the data is ANTI-correlated at real cadence. Restricted to GAIT_LAG_MIN..MAX in both the gate and the loss. 2. NOT ACTUALLY A CORRELATION. The score normalised by the whole window's std but averaged over the (n - lag)-sample overlap, so it was unbounded — a model scored 1.131, above the real walk's 0.968. An unbounded score also lets one large arc pass as a cycle. Now a Pearson correlation computed per overlap: real walk 1.000, real run 0.000. Also scopes periodicity to WALK only. The real Mixamo running clip has NO positive autocorrelation at any lag in a 60-frame window, so demanding periodicity of run/march asks for something real running does not exhibit at this window length. Corrected, v7.4 ep251 walk reaches 0.882 periodicity — a genuine cycle versus 0.264 for the trembling model — but the RENDER is still bad (arms fused into the torso, mesh collapsed). A clean cycle is necessary and nowhere near sufficient. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…metrics (#837) The six property metrics (travel, contra, twist, amplitude, speed, periodicity) can each be driven to match real motion while the render still collapses, and five of them turned out to have bugs that made them reward the defect they were added to catch. Real motion is a joint distribution, so measure against it directly. eval-t2m-refdist.py finds each generated clip's nearest real reference window in the canonical representation and reports the geodesic quaternion distance, minimised over reference windows and over cyclic time shifts (phase is not a defect). Real clips are short — Walk.fbx is exactly one 60-frame window and Running.fbx only 0.7 s — so references are cycle-extended and phase-shifted to cover the whole cycle. It also prints a real-vs-real floor, which is the honest target: walk real-vs-real 0.031 min / 0.437 median rad run real-vs-real 0.195 min / 0.891 median rad v6.8 walk 0.760 best / 1.887 mean (108 deg per joint) So the best draw of the best model is worse than the WORST pairing of two real windows. Validated that it tracks the renders, which no property metric did: on best-draw distance v6.8 ep75 (rendered best) scores 0.760 against v7.4 ep251 (rendered collapsed) at 1.173, while their mean distances are indistinguishable — so best-of-N is the signal to read. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The decisive measurement of this effort. Scored against real Mixamo clips, the corpus's own "walk" windows sit a median 1.73 rad from Walk.fbx — FURTHER than a real punch (1.19), a real dance (0.91), a real jump (0.66) or a real run (0.83), against a real-vs-real floor of 0.03..0.44. The corpus does not contain Mixamo-style walking, and every model trained on it faithfully reproduced that: the model measured 1.89 against its data's 1.73. That is why nine rounds of losses, gates and sampling changes never fixed the render — the gap lives in the data, and a model cannot be closer to real motion than its training set is. A walk-LIKE subset does exist, so select it: window_quality() now rejects walk/run windows whose geodesic distance to the real reference clip exceeds MAX_REFERENCE_DISTANCE (0.8 rad), minimised over reference windows and cyclic shifts so phase is not penalised. Calibrated from the data — 0.8 keeps 149 walk and 16 run windows, and real DIFFERENT motions sit 0.66+ away, so it admits only genuinely walk-shaped motion. This supersedes the periodicity gate, which was both too strict (149 windows survive here versus 15 under periodicity) and blind to whether the motion actually resembles a walk. Actions with no reference clip are unaffected. A missing or unextractable reference fails OPEN with a one-time warning rather than silently rejecting every window of that action, which would masquerade as a data problem. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…annot (#837) User report on the v7.7 walk: "moving well, but as if it was oriented backwards". Correct, and the cause is that detectBackwardFacing() infers facing from the MESH's toe region — a property of the RIG alone. It therefore returns the same answer for every model, while different t2m generations carry opposite canonical facing conventions and need opposite flips on the same mesh. Measured on the Rumba rig against the real Mixamo walk (geodesic rad, lower is better; real-vs-real floor is 0.437): heuristic's choice (unflipped) 0.492 mean over 3 samples flipped 0.430 mean over 3 samples So the heuristic picks the wrong one, and flipped lands AT the real-vs-real floor — the generated walk is now as close to the real clip as two real walk windows are to each other. detectBackwardFacing() now honours a "yaw180" boolean in the installed t2m-vocab.json, ahead of the geometry heuristic and behind the existing QTMESH_T2M_YAW180 env override. The model knows its own convention; the mesh cannot. Models that do not declare it keep the old behaviour exactly. Note this does NOT fix run (still crouched with arms out front, flipped or not) — that is the 16-training-window starvation, a separate problem. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…rectly (#837) User's observation, and it is the key one: "when I apply the good animations from the template, they walk in the correct side, couldn't they be used instead?" — as TRAINING DATA, yes. Measured, the curated template library is the only source that both renders with correct facing on real rigs and sits near real motion: refDist to the real Mixamo walk (real-vs-real floor 0.437): template walks 0.303 .. 0.462 <- below the floor CMU corpus walk 2.07 median v7.7 model 0.480 shoulder-line lateral error (real motion 0.483): template walks 0.519 CMU corpus 0.665 v7.7 model 0.618 That last block is why "facing awareness" could not be trained from the corpus: the model already faced BETTER than its own data, so there was nothing to learn from. The templates do carry the correct convention. --library-repeat emits each curated take N times so the 150 good clips are not drowned by the ~20k-window CMU corpus. At x40 the walk training data improves from 140 windows / refDist 0.639 / latErr 0.700 to 764 windows / refDist 0.309 / latErr 0.515 — i.e. below the real-vs-real floor and near real facing. This keeps text-to-motion a real generative model (prompt in, novel clip out, works on any rig) rather than falling back to template playback; the templates are only the teacher. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Delivering "the last epoch" is not safe: in earlier runs walk peaked then regressed, and the metrics disagree — v7.8 ep75 has the best walk refDist (0.269) while ep30 has the best facing across the actions a human confirmed usable (0.326 vs ep75's 0.375). pick-t2m-checkpoint.py scores every archived checkpoint on walk refDist, walk facing, walk stride AND mean facing over the USER-VALIDATED action list, so the delivered model is chosen on evidence rather than recency. The validated list is real feedback on v7.8 ep60 (walk, run, wave, cough, death, pickup, attack, crouch, salute, working, shake, punch), and the script documents the caveat that the facing metric does not capture limb articulation — it separates checkpoints of one model, it does not replace watching renders. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…nkle (#837) User report on the v7.8 ep60 walk: "almost like a flat knee, slightly backwards, then a second knee below on the correct orientation". Measured the leg chain against the real Mixamo walk and the bend is in the wrong joint: thigh->shin (knee) real 38.4 deg model 24.9 deg UNDER-bent shin->foot (ankle) real 9.7 deg model 31.5 deg 3x OVER-bent So it is not hyperextension (the earlier hinge-gate attempts assumed that and both failed) — the knee barely bends and the ankle takes up the slack. That extra bend below a near-straight knee is exactly the false second knee the user sees. leg_chain_penalty penalises ankle flexion above 0.35 rad and knee flexion below 0.45 rad, anchored on the real-walk values. Verified to separate: real Walk.fbx 0.014 training data 0.000 (walk) 0.021 (run) v7.8 ep60 0.222 Off by default (--legchain-weight 0).
The leg-chain, amplitude, travel and periodicity terms all live inside the `if a.phase_weight > 0` block because they need the reconstructed clean sample q_hat. With --phase-weight 0 they are therefore silently NO-OPS — the trainer accepts the flag, prints nothing, and trains without the term. This exact failure class already cost real runs once: the amplitude term contributed a measured 0.0000 to the loss for several full trainings before it was noticed, while limbs collapsed as collateral damage. So refuse the combination instead of no-op'ing, and log the leg-chain weight at startup the way the gait-phase term already does.
…ted (#837) The scorer measured facing, stride and reference distance — none of which capture the one thing the user actually named on the walk ('almost a flat knee, slightly backwards, then a second knee below'). Add the leg-chain metric (real Walk.fbx 0.014, data 0.000, v7.8 ep60 0.222) and report the best checkpoint per criterion instead of a single ranking, since the criteria genuinely disagree. Also scan the ck* archives, not just e*.
…ch clips (#837) The user reported "march is just a twisted mess". Measured the curated training windows and the cause is the SOURCE DATA, not the model: action knee ankle walk 38.4 deg 9.7 deg (real Walk.fbx: 38.4 / 9.7) run - 21.7 deg march 39.4 deg 104.5 deg <- 100% of windows A 104.5 deg ankle folds the foot nearly perpendicular to the shin, in every single march window, while the knee is perfectly healthy. The march templates are simply broken. Left ungated this also poisons the new leg-chain loss, which is masked to ALL locomotion rows and would be pulled toward this geometry — so a bad action degrades the good ones. Gate at 70 deg mean ankle flexion (generous vs real walk 9.7 / run 21.7), skipped for actions where a large ankle angle is legitimate (kneeling, ground work, kick, climb). Verified selective on the current cache: walk 150/150 run 150/150 kick 150/150 sit 150/150 march 0/150 Unlike the two earlier knee-hinge gate attempts (which rejected ~90% of real data because the lateral axis sign flips between rigs), this bound is on an unsigned angle BETWEEN TWO BONES, so it is rig-independent. march drops out of the vocab as a result. That is the intent: a broken action is worse than a missing one.
The v7.8 npz recorded only fps/vocab/canonRestDir. When the march contamination needed the cache rebuilt, reproducing the original build meant inferring the flags by comparing the cache's action set against each candidate motion-library file — slow, and easy to get wrong in a way that silently changes the training data. Store sys.argv and the resolved flag dict so any cache can state how it was built.
--min-roles was only ever passed to the CORPUS loader. Once --library-repeat
made the curated library the dominant source, the flag was effectively inert —
the same silently-dead-knob class as the amplitude term.
It matters most on the library path. The `hey` take resolves only 9 of 22
canonical roles with ALL FOUR knee/ankle roles invalid, so the new anatomical
ankle gate cannot even run on it (it correctly skips a check it cannot
perform) and the model has no leg data for that action — it invents legs. The
90 deg 'ankle' measured there is unmapped identity quaternions, not motion.
Sorting the curated takes by valid-role count reproduces the user's verdict
without being told which actions were bad:
hey 9 roles "not that good"
confession 14 roles "not that good"
dance min 6 "a twisted mess"
everything rated GOOD >=16 roles
A floor of 16 costs 11 of 150 clips and drops exactly confession/hey (plus
show/succ, never exercised). Combined with the anatomical ankle gate, the
rebuilt cache goes 34 -> 30 actions, removing precisely the four the user
called broken — march, throw, hey, confession — while retaining every action
they rated good or usable.
Removing the four broken actions (march/throw/hey/confession) changed the vocab 34 -> 30, which resizes act_emb.weight — the only tensor carrying the vocab dimension. A plain --resume would raise on the shape mismatch, so the 90 epochs of template-facing knowledge could not be carried over. Transplant act_emb column-by-column for the 30 shared actions (order is preserved, so all 30 map) and drop the optimizer/scheduler state, whose moment buffers are shaped for the old tensor and would be stale. --resume now detects a checkpoint without opt/sched and warm-starts with a fresh optimizer instead of KeyError-ing. Verified on the real transition: 30/30 embeddings transplanted, act_emb (384,34) -> (384,30), and the trainer reports the locomotion mask as ['run','walk'] — march is gone, so the leg-chain loss is no longer 21% mis-targeted at broken geometry.
…on nor a clip (#837) Dropping the broken `march` action from the t2m vocab left "marching" with nothing to resolve to: the curated library has NEVER contained a march clip either, so the model path returned "not in the model vocabulary", the template fallback then found no match, and the user got a hard error for a prompt that previously produced something. march's training data was leftover CMU corpus whose ankle folds ~106 deg — the foot perpendicular to the shin in 100% of windows — which is why it rendered as a twisted mess and was gated out. throw/hey/confession were also dropped from the vocab but DO have curated clips, so they fall back cleanly; march was the only one left stranded. A marching gait is a walk, so point both synonym tables at `walk`. Verified: "marching" and "march" now generate via the model as walk instead of erroring.
The comment cited v7.7 measurements to justify the hook, but that model is superseded. No shipped vocab declares `yaw180`: v8.0 trains on the curated template clips, which already carry the correct facing, so the geometry heuristic agrees and this returns -1. Keep the hook as forward compatibility (facing convention is a property of the MODEL, and only the model can state it) and say so, rather than leaving stale evidence for a future reader to act on.
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe PR adds t2m curation gates, gait-focused training losses, checkpoint export and evaluation tools, and runtime handling for model yaw metadata and march-related prompts. Changest2m pipeline
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2062-2065: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winRecord the metadata file read.
This code performs a model-metadata file import that changes runtime motion orientation. Add
SentryReporter::addBreadcrumb("file.import", ...)for the read and its outcome.As per coding guidelines, file I/O operations must use the
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dirs_tfrom the cache'scanonRestDirinstead of duplicating the table.
DIR_CANONrestatesprep-t2m-v5.D_CANON, and the comment asks a human to keep the two in sync. The authoritative values already travel with the data: Line 531 loadscanon_rd = d["canonRestDir"], and Line 760 writes it into the exported vocabulary. So the trainer already reads the exact table that produced the cache, then supervises against a hand-copied second copy.If the two ever diverge, the FK used by every new loss silently disagrees with the FK used by the data gates and by the retarget, and no error is raised.
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canon_rdfordirs_t, and keepPAR_CANONas the only duplicated constant.♻️ Proposed refactor
- dirs_t = torch.tensor(DIR_CANON, dtype=torch.float32, device=dev) + # Take the rest directions from the CACHE, not the local copy, so the FK + # in the losses cannot drift from the FK that produced the data. + dirs_t = torch.tensor(np.asarray(canon_rd, np.float32), device=dev) + assert tuple(dirs_t.shape) == (J, 3), f"canonRestDir shape {dirs_t.shape}"🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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mbmasks only the flow-matching MSE. The auxiliary losses process reconstructed quaternions without role-validity gates, so invalid roles can affectjitter_excessand the gait, leg-chain, and amplitude losses. The preparation pipeline retains partially valid windows.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@scripts/export-t2m-from-ckpt.py`:
- Line 48: Update the --guidance argument default in the exporter to 2.0,
matching the trainer Sampler default so invocations that omit the option use
consistent guidance.
- Line 51: Disable pickle loading in both np.load readers in
scripts/export-t2m-from-ckpt.py:51 and scripts/eval-t2m-posture.py:182 by
setting allow_pickle=False, preserving access to the required non-object fields.
In `@scripts/pick-t2m-checkpoint.py`:
- Around line 19-22: Update the checkpoint selector’s dynamic imports to derive
paths from __file__ rather than hard-coded user and repository locations, and
add command-line arguments for the checkpoint root and reference clip path.
Replace all affected absolute-path usage, including the locations noted around
the imports and later checkpoint processing, while preserving the existing
selection behavior for arbitrary roots.
In `@scripts/prep-t2m-v6.py`:
- Line 152: Swap the shoulder-role bindings in both travel-direction
implementations so lsh uses role 11 and rsh uses role 7, ensuring the cross
product computes left shoulder minus right shoulder. Update
scripts/prep-t2m-v6.py lines 152-152 and scripts/train-t2m-flow-v5.py lines
152-153; both sites require the same binding correction.
- Line 497: Update the mirror coefficients in the transformation around m so the
mirror preserves the forward axis instead of being a global negation of the
existing coefficients; ensure the resulting mirrored rotations and quat_to_6d
features differ as intended and remove backward-locomotion augmentation.
In `@scripts/train-t2m-flow-v5.py`:
- Around line 627-629: Update the warm-start branch around start_ep so
transplanted weights always begin training from epoch zero with the fresh
optimizer and scheduler. Do not use ck.get("epoch") as the loop offset; ensure
range(start_ep, a.epochs) covers the configured training epochs and the
CosineAnnealingLR reaches its intended schedule. Preserve the warm-start logging
while reporting the source checkpoint epoch separately if needed.
In `@src/AnimationMerger.cpp`:
- Around line 2092-2093: Update the retargeting function containing
declaredYaw180 so model callers pass the model’s declaration explicitly and use
it only in the model path. Keep non-model callers, including template and mocap
retargeting, on the process-wide detectBackwardFacing() geometry result, and
update all call sites accordingly.
- Around line 2056-2058: Update declaredYaw180() so a failed t2m-vocab.json read
does not persist as the cached result; cache only successfully declared values
or invalidate the cache after the model installation creates the file. Add a
regression test covering an initial missing file followed by installation and a
subsequent reread.
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In `@scripts/train-t2m-flow-v5.py`:
- Around line 100-106: Remove the duplicated DIR_CANON table and build dirs_t
from the already loaded canon_rd value from d["canonRestDir"]. Keep PAR_CANON as
the only duplicated canonical constant, and ensure the existing loss supervision
continues using the cache-provided directions.
- Around line 668-669: Update the auxiliary-loss computations near jitter_excess
and the gait, leg-chain, and amplitude losses to apply the retained
role-validity masks before reduction. Ensure invalid roles contribute nothing to
these losses, while preserving the existing mb masking for flow-matching MSE and
supporting partially valid windows.
In `@src/AnimationMerger.cpp`:
- Around line 2062-2065: Add a SentryReporter::addBreadcrumb call in the
metadata file read flow around QFile f and f.open, using the file.import
category and recording both the attempted read and its outcome, including the
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**P1 — remove the model-declared yaw180 hook entirely.** detectBackwardFacing is called from SEVEN sites, four of them mocap (MocapRecorder x3, MocapController). Letting an installed t2m vocab declare the flip would apply a MODEL-specific facing convention to video-captured motion that never used it — installing a model could rotate unrelated animations 180 degrees. It was latent (no shipped vocab declares the key) and the delivered v8.0 does not need it, so delete rather than add scoping for a hypothetical. AnimationMerger.cpp is now byte-identical to master; the per-process QTMESH_T2M_YAW180 env override stays. **P2 — the mirror 'fix' was a no-op, and the original was already correct.** (-x, y, z, -w) is the NEGATION of (x, -y, -z, w), and q == -q as rotations. Verified numerically that (x, -y, -z, w) IS the conjugation S@R(q)@s with S = diag(-1,1,1), while the two alternatives are not. Restored the correct form and documented the no-op so it is not reintroduced as a fix. **Security — allow_pickle=False on every cache reader.** A crafted npz passed via --data could otherwise execute code on load. Note the blanket flip alone would have BROKEN reading caches written by this branch: the new buildArgv/buildFlags were dtype=object, which forces allow_pickle=True. Store them as np.str_ instead, then flip the three readers. **Guidance defaults reconciled on 1.0, not 2.0.** The review asked to raise the CLI defaults to match Sampler's 2.0. The shipped v8.0 model was trained AND exported with an explicit --guidance 1.0, so that would make the documented reproduction command produce a different model than the one published. Fixed the Sampler default down to 1.0 instead, so all three agree on the shipped value. Verified: re-exporting ep21 reproduces sha 7690b9f63567 bit-for-bit. **Portability — pick-t2m-checkpoint.py no longer hardcodes a home directory.** Module imports derive from __file__; checkpoint roots and the reference clip are --roots/--ref arguments. Verified against ~/t2m_v80.
**Shoulder roles renamed, behaviour deliberately unchanged.** The review found that `lsh, rsh = fk_pos(w, 7), fk_pos(w, 11)` is backwards — role 7 is the RIGHT shoulder (D_CANON[7] = -X) and role 11 the LEFT — and proposed swapping the bindings so the cross product uses (left - right). Swapping would INVERT the sign and make the gate reject every genuine forward walk. Verified empirically before touching it: the real Mixamo walk scores +0.581 with the code as written, and 100% of cached walk/run windows are positive. The operand order is what produces the forward axis; only the NAMES were wrong. Renamed both the numpy gate and its torch twin to match reality, and documented why the 'obvious' swap is wrong so it is not reapplied. **Refuse a warm start that would train zero epochs.** `range(start_ep, a.epochs)` is empty when --epochs is at or below the resume point, and the export block would then write an ONNX of untrained (or, on a warm start, merely transplanted) weights — silently, and indistinguishable from a real result. Now raises SystemExit pointing at export-t2m-from-ckpt.py for the legitimate 'export this checkpoint as-is' case. Verified: --epochs 5 against the ep21 checkpoint now refuses instead of exporting.
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Branch protection requires a status context named plain `build-linux`, but the
job is a matrix and GitHub derives its check name from EVERY matrix parameter,
so it reported as:
build-linux (amd64, ubuntu-latest, linux, linux_gcc_64, gcc_64, x86_64-linux-gnu)
The bare `build-linux` context therefore never appeared, sat pending forever,
and every PR showed BLOCKED with nothing actually failing — #963 and #964 both
had to be merged by hand despite 18 green checks.
Pin `name: build-linux (${{ matrix.arch }})` so the job reports as
`build-linux (amd64)` / `build-linux (arm64)`: short, stable, and unaffected
if the matrix gains or loses parameters later.
The required contexts still need updating from `build-linux` to those two
names — a repo-settings change, done separately.
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Summary
Fixes the text-to-motion model so it produces usable animations. The prior
model moved plausibly but faced backwards, and its walk had a defect the
user described as "a flat knee, slightly backwards, then a second knee below".
Both turned out to be data problems, not architecture problems.
The facing problem was unlearnable from the CMU corpus
Measured against a reference walk, CMU "walk" windows sit 1.73–2.07 rad
away — further than a reference punch (1.19), dance (0.91) or jump (0.66), against a
reference-vs-reference floor of 0.437. The v6.x model scored 1.89 while its own training
data scored 1.73: it was faithfully reproducing bad data. The corpus never
carried the correct facing convention, so no amount of training could fix it.
v8.0 trains on the curated template clips instead (
--library-repeat 40),which measure 0.303–0.462 against the reference walk.
The "second knee" was the bend in the wrong joint
Not hyperextension — the knee under-bends and the ankle absorbs the stride,
which renders as a near-straight knee with a false second joint below it. Two
earlier signed knee-hinge gates failed because the lateral axis sign flips
between rigs;
leg_chain_penaltybounds an unsigned angle between twobones, so it is rig-independent.
Verified with
anim --apply-canonicalthat the retarget preserves knee/anklebit-identically (38.4/12.2 in and out), so this was purely a model defect
and needed no
AnimationMergerchange.Data gates (each independently reproduced the user's per-action verdict)
heyresolved only 9 of 22 roles with all four knee/ankle roles invalid —the model had no leg data and invented legs.
marchwas also leftover CMU corpus (no library contains a march clip) andmade up 21% of the locomotion rows the new leg-chain loss masks to, with target
geometry 1.37 vs the reference walk's 0.014 — a fifth of the fix was aimed at broken
data.
Vocab 34 → 30. Removed prompts fall back to the curated templates, which for
march/throwis strictly better than what the model produced.Results
Across 20 actions scored against ground truth: v8.0 closer on 8, v7.x on 3,
tied on 9. Largest gains
wave0.710→0.082 (the arm now actually goesoverhead),
idle,climb,salute,punch,sit.User-verified in the app: "the animations are very good".
Bug fixes found along the way
--min-roleswas inert on the library path — only ever passed to thecorpus loader, so once
--library-repeatmade the library dominant the flagdid nothing. Same silently-dead-knob class as the amplitude term that
contributed 0.0000 for several full runs; the trainer now raises rather
than no-op'ing when a shared-block loss term would be dead.
marchstranded — dropping it from the vocab left"marching"with nomodel action and no clip, returning a hard error for a prompt that
previously worked. Now routed to
walk.build meant inferring flags from action overlap. Now stamps
buildArgv/buildFlags.Model
Published to HuggingFace; the app downloads it on first use.
Previous model preserved as
motion/t2m-v61.onnxfor rollback. Both modelcards updated.
Test plan
still generates, proving the model path (not template playback)
MotionLibrary/MotionGenerator/MotionInbetweentests pass (39)Note:
AnimationMergertests need Ogre/GL and skip on macOS; they run underXvfb in CI.
Changes are confined to
scripts/(offline dev tools) plus themarch→walksynonym fix in
src/MotionLibrary.cpp/src/MotionGenerator.cpp.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
Summary by CodeRabbit
Bug Fixes
Improvements