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If you use PARC in your research, please consider citing the following papers and tools.

PARC

Please cite the main PARC paper:
@inproceedings{xu2025parc,
    author = {Xu, Michael and Shi, Yi and Yin, KangKang and Peng, Xue Bin},
    title = {PARC: Physics-based Augmentation with Reinforcement Learning for Character Controllers},
    year = {2025},
    booktitle={SIGGRAPH 2025 Conference Papers (SIGGRAPH '25 Conference Papers)}
}

MimicKit

PARC was built on top of MimicKit. Please also consider citing:
@misc{MimicKit,
	title = {MimicKit},
	author = {Peng, Xue Bin},
	year = {2025},
	publisher = {GitHub},
	journal = {GitHub repository},
	howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/xbpeng/MimicKit}},
}

Motionscope

If you find Motionscope (the motion/terrain editor) helpful, please cite:
@software{Xu_Michael_Motionscope,
  author = {Xu, Michael and Peng, Xue Bin},
  title = {{motionscope}},
  year = {2025},
  month = aug,
  version = {0.0.1},
  url = {https://github.com/mshoe/PARC},
  license = {MIT}
}

Polyscope

Motionscope is built on top of Polyscope. Please consider citing:
@misc{polyscope,
  title = {Polyscope},
  author = {Nicholas Sharp and others},
  note = {www.polyscope.run},
  year = {2019}
}

Foundational Work

PARC’s motion tracker and motion generator build upon these important papers:

DeepMimic

@article{
	2018-TOG-deepMimic,
	author = {Peng, Xue Bin and Abbeel, Pieter and Levine, Sergey and van de Panne, Michiel},
	title = {DeepMimic: Example-guided Deep Reinforcement Learning of Physics-based Character Skills},
	journal = {ACM Trans. Graph.},
	issue_date = {August 2018},
	volume = {37},
	number = {4},
	month = jul,
	year = {2018},
	issn = {0730-0301},
	pages = {143:1--143:14},
	articleno = {143},
	numpages = {14},
	url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3197517.3201311},
	doi = {10.1145/3197517.3201311},
	acmid = {3201311},
	publisher = {ACM},
	address = {New York, NY, USA},
	keywords = {motion control, physics-based character animation, reinforcement learning},
} 

Motion Diffusion Model (MDM)

@inproceedings{
tevet2023human,
title={Human Motion Diffusion Model},
author={Guy Tevet and Sigal Raab and Brian Gordon and Yoni Shafir and Daniel Cohen-or and Amit Haim Bermano},
booktitle={The Eleventh International Conference on Learning Representations },
year={2023},
url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=SJ1kSyO2jwu}
}

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