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SceneStreamer: Continuous Scenario Generation as Next Token Group Prediction

Robotics 2026-03-04 v2 Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

Abstract

Realistic and interactive traffic simulation is essential for training and evaluating autonomous driving systems. However, most existing data-driven simulation methods rely on static initialization or log-replay data, limiting their ability to model dynamic, long-horizon scenarios with evolving agent populations. We propose SceneStreamer, a unified autoregressive framework for continuous scenario generation that represents the entire scene as a sequence of tokens, including traffic light signals, agent states, and motion vectors, and generates them step by step with a transformer model. This design enables SceneStreamer to continuously introduce and retire agents over an unbounded horizon, supporting realistic long-duration simulation. Experiments demonstrate that SceneStreamer produces realistic, diverse, and adaptive traffic behaviors. Furthermore, reinforcement learning policies trained in SceneStreamer-generated scenarios achieve superior robustness and generalization, validating its utility as a high-fidelity simulation environment for autonomous driving. More information is available at https://vail-ucla.github.io/scenestreamer/ .

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@article{arxiv.2506.23316,
  title  = {SceneStreamer: Continuous Scenario Generation as Next Token Group Prediction},
  author = {Zhenghao Peng and Yuxin Liu and Bolei Zhou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.23316},
  year   = {2026}
}
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