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Inferix: A Block-Diffusion based Next-Generation Inference Engine for World Simulation

arXiv 2511.20714 ↗First posted 25 Nov 2025cs.CV cs.AIcited by 8

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Abstract (arXiv)

World models serve as core simulators for fields such as agentic AI, embodied AI, and gaming, capable of generating long, physically realistic, and interactive high-quality videos. Moreover, scaling these models could unlock emergent capabilities in visual perception, understanding, and reasoning, paving the way for a new paradigm that moves beyond current LLM-centric vision foundation models. A key breakthrough empowering them is the semi-autoregressive (block-diffusion) decoding paradigm, which merges the strengths of diffusion and autoregressive methods by generating video tokens in block-applying diffusion within each block while conditioning on previous ones, resulting in more coherent and stable video sequences. Crucially, it overcomes limitations of standard video diffusion by reintroducing LLM-style KV Cache management, enabling efficient, variable-length, and high-quality generation. Therefore, Inferix is specifically designed as a next-generation inference engine to enable immersive world synthesis through optimized semi-autoregressive decoding processes. This dedicated focus on world simulation distinctly sets it apart from systems engineered for high-concurrency scenarios (like vLLM or SGLang) and from classic video diffusion models (such as xDiTs). Inferix further enhances its offering with interactive video streaming and profiling, enabling real-time interaction and realistic simulation to accurately model world dynamics. Additionally, it supports efficient benchmarking through seamless integration of LV-Bench, a new fine-grained evaluation benchmark tailored for minute-long video generation scenarios. We hope the community will work together to advance Inferix and foster world model exploration.

Key facts. Cited by 8 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026). Placed in Video-generation world models and simulators, one of 11 directions in World models. Builds on 23 of its 46 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 25 Nov 2025.

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23 of 46 references.

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  1. 2025MAGI-1: Autoregressive Video Generation at Scale19 May
  2. 2025Wan: Open and Advanced Large-Scale Video Generative Models26 Mar

Other references · 21

  1. 2023SGLang: Efficient Execution of Structured Language Model Programscited by 1,141
  2. 2024SnapKV: LLM Knows What You are Looking for Before Generationcited by 880
  3. 2024DeepSeek-V3 Technical Reportcited by 811
  4. 2024Improved Distribution Matching Distillation for Fast Image Synthesiscited by 684
  5. 2024KIVI: A Tuning-Free Asymmetric 2bit Quantization for KV Cachecited by 637
  6. 2025Self Forcing: Bridging the Train-Test Gap in Autoregressive Video Diffusioncited by 625
  7. 2023FlexGen: High-Throughput Generative Inference of Large Language Models with a Single GPUcited by 575
  8. 2024Timestep Embedding Tells: It's Time to Cache for Video Diffusion Modelcited by 269
  9. 2024InfiniGen: Efficient Generative Inference of Large Language Models with Dynamic KV Cache Managementcited by 245
  10. 2025Frame Context Packing and Drift Prevention in Next-Frame-Prediction Video Diffusion Modelscited by 143
  11. 2025Fast Video Generation with Sliding Tile Attentioncited by 128
  12. 2025Long Context Tuning for Video Generationcited by 113
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  1. 2024Loong: Generating Minute-level Long Videos with Autoregressive Language Modelscited by 99
  2. 2025Mixture of Contexts for Long Video Generationcited by 95
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  7. 2025BLADE: Block-Sparse Attention Meets Step Distillation for Efficient Video Generationcited by 13
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  9. 2025MoCA: Identity-Preserving Text-to-Video Generation via Mixture of Cross Attentioncited by 5

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  1. 2026X-Cache: Cross-Chunk Block Caching for Few-Step Autoregressive World Models Inference
  2. 2026MiniWorld: Democratizing the Training of Video World Models from Scratch
  3. 2025Lyra: Generative 3D Scene Reconstruction via Video Diffusion Model Self-Distillation
  4. 2025Playing with Transformer at 30+ FPS via Next-Frame Diffusion
  5. 2026Video Generation Models as World Models: Efficient Paradigms, Architectures and Algorithms
  6. 2026Matrix-Game 3.0: Real-Time and Streaming Interactive World Model with Long-Horizon Memory
  7. 2026BlockVLA: Accelerating Autoregressive VLA via Block Diffusion Finetuning
  8. 2026Speculative Decoding for Autoregressive Video Generation