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ARXIV:2603.18266 · SIMULATION & WORLD MODELS · SUBMITTED 02 APR · 02:30 UTC · FRESHNESS STALE
ARXIV:2603.18266SIMULATION & WORLD MODELSSUBMITTED 02 APR · 02:30 UTCFRESHNESS STALEYash Ranjan · Rahul Sengupta · Anand Rangarajan · Sanjay Ranka · arXiv
A transformer-based generative model that creates realistic, long-horizon traffic actor trajectories by understanding intersection geometry and actor interactions, outperforming baselines significantly.
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A transformer-based generative model that creates realistic, long-horizon traffic actor trajectories by understanding intersection geometry and actor interactions, outperforming baselines significantly. However, the behavior models controlling the actions of the actors are overly simplistic…
Traffic microsimulators are widely used to evaluate road network performance under various ``what-if" conditions. However, the behavior models controlling the actions of the actors are overly simplistic and fails to capture realistic actor-actor interactions.
ScienceToStartup currently rates this 7.0/10 on the public viability pass. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed framework effectively captures complex actor-actor interactions and generates long-horizon, physically consistent trajectories, while requiring significantly fewer training samples…
Simulation & World Models moved forward this cycle; last verified April 2026. Public score 7.0/10. Production flags indicate code availability.
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A transformer-based generative model that creates realistic, long-horizon traffic actor trajectories by understanding intersection geometry and actor interactions, outperforming baselines significantly.
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10.48550/arXiv.2603.18266A transformer-based generative model that creates realistic, long-horizon traffic actor trajectories by understanding intersection geometry and actor interactions, outperforming baselines significantly.
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Traffic microsimulators are widely used to evaluate road network performance under various ``what-if" conditions. However, the behavior models controlling the actions of the actors are overly simplistic and fails to capture realistic actor-actor interactions. Deep learning-based methods have been applied to model vehicles and pedestrians as ``agents" responding to their surrounding ``environment" (including lanes, signals, and neighboring agents). Although effective in learning actor-actor interaction, these approaches fail to generate physically consistent trajectories over long time periods, and they do not explicitly address the complex dynamics that arise at traffic intersections which is a critical location in urban networks. Inspired by the World Model paradigm, we have developed an actor centric generative model using transformer-based architecture that is able to capture the actor-actor interaction, at the same time understanding the geometry to the traffic intersection to generate physically grounded trajectories that are based on learned behavior. Moreover, we test the model in a live ``simulation-in-the-loop" setting, where we generate the initial conditions of the actors using SUMO and then let the model control the dynamics of the actors. We let the simulation run for 40000 timesteps (4000 seconds), testing the performance of the model on long timerange and evaluating the trajectories on traffic engineering related metrics. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed framework effectively captures complex actor-actor interactions and generates long-horizon, physically consistent trajectories, while requiring significantly fewer training samples than traditional agent-centric generative approaches. Our model is able to outperform the baseline in traffic related as well as aggregate metrics where our model beats the baseline by more than 10x on the KL-Divergence.
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A transformer-based generative model that creates realistic, long-horizon traffic actor trajectories by understanding intersection geometry and actor interactions, outperforming baselines significantly. However, the behavior models controlling the actions of the actors are overl...
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Traffic microsimulators are widely used to evaluate road network performance under various ``what-if" conditions. However, the behavior models controlling the actions of the actors are overly simplistic and fails to capture realistic actor-actor interactions.
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ScienceToStartup currently rates this 7.0/10 on the public viability pass. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed framework effectively captures complex actor-actor interactions and generates long-horizon, physically consistent trajectories, while requiring significa...
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A transformer-based generative model that creates realistic, long-horizon traffic actor trajectories by understanding intersection geometry and actor interactions, outperforming baselines significantly. However, the behavior models controlling the actions of the actors are overly simplistic and fails to capture realistic actor-actor interactions.
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Traffic microsimulators are widely used to evaluate road network performance under various ``what-if" conditions. However, the behavior models controlling the actions of the actors are overly simplistic and fails to capture realistic actor-actor interactions.
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