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Pretrained whole-body tracking models transfer across humanoid embodiments using 1 percent of normal training resources.
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load-bearing objection Any2Any gets decent transfer results on humanoid WBT with low resources, but the kinematic alignment step lacks the ablation needed to show it actually enables policy reuse. the 1 major comments →
Any2Any: Efficient Cross-Embodiment Transfer for Humanoid Whole-Body Tracking
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Core claim
Any2Any transfers an existing whole-body tracking specialist to a new humanoid embodiment by first performing kinematic alignment to align input and output spaces, allowing reuse of the pretrained policy, and then applying lightweight parameter-efficient fine-tuning to dynamics-sensitive modules. This achieves competitive tracking performance while using only a small fraction of the data and compute required for training from scratch, as demonstrated by transferring models from Unitree G1 to LimX Oli and LimX Luna with 1% of the resources.
What carries the argument
The Any2Any two-stage process of kinematic alignment followed by targeted parameter-efficient fine-tuning on dynamics modules, which reuses behavioral priors from the source policy.
Load-bearing premise
That performing kinematic alignment between source and target humanoids sufficiently aligns their input and output spaces so the pretrained source policy can be meaningfully reused before dynamics adaptation begins.
What would settle it
If applying Any2Any to transfer a model resulted in tracking performance no better than a randomly initialized policy even after the dynamics adaptation stage, the efficiency claim would fail.
Editorial analysis
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Referee Report
Summary. The paper proposes Any2Any, a paradigm for efficient cross-embodiment transfer of pretrained whole-body tracking (WBT) models across humanoid robots. It first performs kinematic alignment to map source (e.g., Unitree G1) and target (e.g., LimX Oli, Luna) input/output spaces, enabling reuse of the source policy, then applies lightweight PEFT modules to dynamics-sensitive components for adaptation. Experiments claim that this achieves competitive or superior tracking performance using only 1% of the compute and data required for training from scratch.
Significance. If validated, the result would be significant for humanoid robotics by demonstrating that WBT specialists can be reused across embodiments with minimal resources, lowering barriers to deployment on new platforms and providing a scalable alternative to per-robot full retraining.
major comments (1)
- [Abstract] Abstract: The central efficiency claim (1% compute/data transfer) rests on the assertion that kinematic alignment 'aligns their input and output spaces so that the pretrained source policy can be meaningfully reused' before PEFT begins. No ablation, zero-shot metrics, or early-adaptation performance comparison (with vs. without the alignment step) is described to isolate this contribution from the PEFT modules alone.
Simulated Author's Rebuttal
We thank the referee for the detailed feedback. We address the concern regarding isolation of the kinematic alignment contribution below and will revise the manuscript to strengthen this aspect of the presentation.
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Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: The central efficiency claim (1% compute/data transfer) rests on the assertion that kinematic alignment 'aligns their input and output spaces so that the pretrained source policy can be meaningfully reused' before PEFT begins. No ablation, zero-shot metrics, or early-adaptation performance comparison (with vs. without the alignment step) is described to isolate this contribution from the PEFT modules alone.
Authors: We agree that an explicit ablation isolating the kinematic alignment step would strengthen the paper. The current experiments demonstrate overall efficiency gains from the full Any2Any pipeline, but we will add the requested analysis in revision: zero-shot tracking metrics immediately after kinematic alignment (prior to any PEFT), learning curves for early adaptation stages, and direct comparisons of PEFT performance with versus without the alignment preprocessing. This will quantify how alignment enables reuse of the source policy as a meaningful initialization. revision: yes
Circularity Check
No circularity: empirical transfer results with no self-referential derivations
full rationale
The paper proposes Any2Any as a practical transfer method (kinematic alignment + PEFT) and supports its efficiency claims solely through experimental outcomes on G1-to-LimX transfers. No equations, fitted parameters renamed as predictions, or load-bearing self-citations appear in the provided text. The derivation chain consists of method description followed by independent empirical benchmarks rather than any reduction of outputs to inputs by construction.
Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger
axioms (1)
- domain assumption Kinematic alignment between source and target humanoids aligns input and output spaces sufficiently for the pretrained source policy to be reused.
read the original abstract
Whole-body tracking (WBT) models have become a key foundation for humanoid robots, enabling them to imitate diverse motions with high fidelity. Training such models from scratch requires large-scale data and computation, making rapid deployment on new humanoid platforms costly. This raises a natural question: Can pretrained WBT models transfer across embodiments with minimal adaptation? To answer this question, we propose Any2Any, a paradigm that efficiently transfers an existing WBT specialist to a new humanoid embodiment with only a small amount of data and compute. Any2Any first performs kinematic alignment between source and target humanoids, aligning their input and output spaces so that the pretrained source policy can be meaningfully reused on the target embodiment.Any2Any then performs dynamics adaptation by applying lightweight parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) components to selected dynamics-sensitive modules, preserving useful behavioral priors while enabling targeted adaptation to the target robot. Extensive experiments on multiple humanoid platforms and pretrained backbones show that Any2Any substantially accelerates convergence and reduces training cost compared with training from scratch, while achieving competitive or superior tracking performance. Notably, using only 1% of the compute and data required for full training, Any2Any successfully transfers Sonic models pre-trained on Unitree G1 to LimX Oli and LimX Luna. These results suggest that pretrained WBT specialists can be efficiently reused across embodiments, providing a scalable path toward deploying humanoid whole-body control on new robots. More results and videos are available on our project page: https://any2any.top/.
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