An ideal traffic simulator replicates the realistic long-term point-to-point trip that a self-driving system experiences during deployment. Prior models and benchmarks focus on closed-loop motion simulation for initial agents in a scene. This is problematic for long-term simulation. Agents enter and exit the scene as the ego vehicle enters new regions. We propose InfGen, a unified next-token prediction model that performs interleaved closed-loop motion simulation and scene generation. InfGen automatically switches between closed-loop motion simulation and scene generation mode. It enables stable long-term rollout simulation. InfGen performs at the state-of-the-art in short-term (9s) traffic simulation, and significantly outperforms all other methods in long-term (30s) simulation. The code and model of InfGen will be released atthis https URL
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title={ Long-term Traffic Simulation with Interleaved Autoregressive Motion and Scenario Generation },
author={ Xiuyu Yang and Shuhan Tan and Philipp Krähenbühl },
journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.17213},
year={ 2025 }
}