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Building an intelligent, fully interactive agent requires generating coherent multimodal outputs combining high-level reasoning with expressive body motion, speech, and video. Existing systems have critical limitations:

  1. Core Problem
  2. Technical Solution
  3. Architecture: LLaMA2-7B Backbone with Unified Token Space
  4. Two-Stage Training Paradigm
  5. Real-Time Inference Pipeline
  6. Experimental Results
  7. Comparison with Existing Systems
  8. Open Questions

U-Mind: Unified Framework for Real-Time Multimodal Interaction

Core Problem

Building an intelligent, fully interactive agent requires generating coherent multimodal outputs combining high-level reasoning with expressive body motion, speech, and video. Existing systems have critical limitations:

  • Unimodal generation: Models handle text OR speech OR motion, not all simultaneously
  • Degraded reasoning: Joint training on multimodal data often destroys the LLM's original planning and dialogue capabilities (catastrophic forgetting)
  • Poor cross-modal alignment: Lack of token-level alignment across modalities impairs temporal and semantic coordination
  • No real-time loop: No system unifies reasoning, synchronized generation, and video rendering in a real-time interactive framework

Technical Solution

Architecture: LLaMA2-7B Backbone with Unified Token Space

Built on LLaMA2-7B, extended to a unified multimodal framework via discrete token representations:

Motion Representation: - SMPL-X body model → 6D joint rotations - Residual Vector Quantized VAE (RVQ-VAE) discretizes motion into latent tokens - Enables autoregressive modeling over temporally structured body dynamics

Speech Representation: - RVQ-VAE from SpeechTokenizer - Captures both semantic content and paralinguistic cues (prosody, emotion)

Special Reasoning Tokens: - ⟨think⟩ and ⟨/think⟩ delimit internal Chain-of-Thought segments - Speech, motion, and reasoning segments wrapped with start/end tokens - All modalities share a unified embedding space → next-token prediction across all

Two-Stage Training Paradigm

Stage 1: Rehearsal-Driven Foundational Pre-training

Balances two competing objectives: 1. Modality grounding tasks: T2M (text-to-motion), S2M (speech-to-motion), T2S (text-to-speech) — learn new modalities 2. Rehearsal tasks: Pure-text reasoning data (OpenOrca) — preserve LLM's planning/dialogue abilities

Segment-wise alignment strategy: Segments inputs by prosodic boundaries (rhythm, pauses), trains on randomized compositions to enhance fine-grained temporal synchrony.

This joint training achieves cross-modal alignment without compromising reasoning.

Stage 2: Instruction Tuning with Text-First Decoding

Supervised fine-tuning on diverse dialogue and task prompts. Each response follows:

⟨think⟩ internal CoT plan ⟨/think⟩ → text → acoustic tokens → motion tokens

The text-first decoding ensures symbolic reasoning takes precedence before generating continuous modalities.

Real-Time Inference Pipeline

  1. User prompt (text or speech)
  2. Internal CoT planning (within ⟨think⟩ tags)
  3. Textual response generation
  4. Acoustic token generation (temporally aligned)
  5. Motion token generation (temporally aligned)
  6. Video rendering via pose-controllable renderer:
  7. Diffusion-based renderer (2D keypoints from DWPose)
  8. Gaussian Splatting renderer (3D from SMPL-X)

Experimental Results

Evaluated on BEAT v2 (S2M) and HumanML3D (T2M) datasets: - 10K S2M and 16K T2M sentence-level samples with QA triplets from Qwen3 - Achieves state-of-the-art across: - High-level question answering - Complex instruction execution - Text-to-motion (T2M) generation - Speech-to-motion (S2M) generation

The model maintains strong reasoning performance while generating synchronized multimodal outputs.

Comparison with Existing Systems

System Reasoning Speech Motion Video Real-Time
SOLAMI Limited Yes Yes No Partial
Motion LLM Yes No Yes No No
U-Mind Yes (CoT) Yes Yes Yes Yes

Open Questions

  1. Reasoning preservation limits: How much multimodal training can be added before reasoning degrades despite rehearsal?

  2. Motion quality vs. synchronization: What is the trade-off between motion naturalness and temporal alignment with speech?

  3. Scaling laws: How does the reasoning-vs-multimodal trade-off change at larger model scales?

  4. Real-time latency: What is the end-to-end latency of the full pipeline, and where are the bottlenecks?

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