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How TRACE Changes One Part of Humanoid Motion

The research framework turns conversational requests into timed, body-specific edits while protecting the rest of an existing movement.

Sophia Chen· · 4 min read

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Overview of the TRACE framework, showing conversational motion editing, event extraction, and humanoid motion sequences before and after edits.

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