BRIC: Bridging Kinematic Plans and Physical Control at Test Time

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Authors: Association for Artificial Intelligence 2026, Minji Kim, Sungchan Kim, Dohun Lim, Jaewoon Lim
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Abstract

We propose BRIC, a novel test-time adaptation (TTA) framework that enables long-term human motion generation by resolving execution discrepancies between diffusion-based kinematic motion planners and reinforcement learning-based physics controllers. While diffusion models can generate diverse and expressive motions conditioned on text and scene context, they often produce physically implausible outputs, leading to execution drift during simulation. To address this, BRIC dynamically adapts the physics controller to noisy motion plans at test time, while preserving pre-trained skills via a loss function that mitigates catastrophic forgetting. In addition, BRIC introduces a lightweight test-time guidance mechanism that steers the diffusion model in the signal space without updating its parameters. By combining both adaptation strategies, BRIC ensures consistent and physically plausible long-term executions across diverse environments in an effective and efficient manner. We validate the effectiveness of BRIC on a variety of long-term tasks, including motion composition, obstacle avoidance, and human-scene interaction, achieving state-of-the-art performance across all tasks.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Human Motion and Animation Reinforcement Learning in Robotics 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis

Publication details

Journal / source
Underline Science Inc.
Publication date
7 January 2026
Language
EN