Large-scale Codec Avatars: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Large-scale Avatar Pretraining

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Source paper: Large-scale Codec Avatars: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Large-scale Avatar Pretraining

PDF: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2604.02320v1

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Last proof check: 2026-04-03T20:50:40.241Z

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we present, for the first time, a pre/post-training paradigm for 3D avatar modeling at scale: we pretrain on 1M in-the-wild videos to learn broad priors over appearance and geometry, then post-train on high-quality curated data to enhance expressivity and fidelity.
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LCA generalizes across hair styles, clothing, and demographics while providing precise, fine-grained facial expressions and finger-level articulation control, with strong identity preservation.
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Directly stated in abstract as a key capability of the method
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Notably, we observe emergent generalization to relightability and loose garment support to unconstrained inputs
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Explicitly stated as an observed emergent property, though 'emergent' suggests it wasn't directly trained for
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and zero-shot robustness to stylized imagery, despite the absence of direct supervision.
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Directly stated as a capability, though 'zero-shot' suggests it wasn't explicitly trained for this
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multi-view studio data enables high-fidelity modeling of humans with precise control over expressions and poses, but it struggles to generalize to real-world data due to limited scale and the domain gap between the studio environment and the real world.
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Directly stated as a limitation of existing approaches in the abstract
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recent large-scale avatar models trained on millions of in-the-wild samples show promise for generalization across a wide range of identities, yet the resulting avatars are often of low-quality due to inherent 3D ambiguities.
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Directly stated as a limitation of existing approaches in the abstract
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a high-fidelity, full-body 3D avatar model that generalizes to world-scale populations in a feedforward manner, enabling efficient inference.
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Directly stated in abstract, though 'efficient' is somewhat qualitative
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Inspired by the success of large language models and vision foundation models
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Directly stated in abstract as inspiration for the methodology
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