Simulation for Driving papers, 2023–2026
Closed-loop simulation
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 5,882 papers are tagged with this topic.
Key findings
- Simulation for Driving went from 969 papers in 2023 to 2,200 in 2026, roughly 2.3x in three years.
- NeurIPS publishes the most Simulation for Driving work: 2,111 papers from 2023 to 2026, 36% of the four-venue total.
- The fastest-growing overlap is with Diffusion Models: papers tagged with both rose from 27 in 2023 to 205 in 2026.
- Among the 5 topics under Autonomous Driving, it ranks #1 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Motion Planning, is up 2.4x versus 2.3x here.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 219 | 182 | 218 | 350 | 969 |
| 2024 | 410 | 176 | 358 | 364 | 1,308 |
| 2025 | 542 | 228 | 275 | 360 | 1,405 |
| 2026 | 940 | 313 | 363 | 584 | 2,200 |
Representative papers
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- NeurIPS 2026$SE(2)$-Aware Conditional Distribution Transport for Vehicle Trajectory Generation
- ICML 2026A Penalty Approach For Differentiation Through Black-box Quadratic Programming Solvers
- ICLR 2026A Schrödinger Eigenfunction Method for Long-Horizon Stochastic Optimal Control
- CVPR 2026A2GC Asymmetric Aggregation with Geometric Constraints for Locally Aggregated Descriptors
- NeurIPS 2025A compressive-expressive communication framework for compositional representations
- ICML 2025A Near-Optimal Single-Loop Stochastic Algorithm for Convex Finite-Sum Coupled Compositional Optimization
- ICLR 2025A Truncated Newton Method for Optimal Transport
- CVPR 20253D-SLNR: A Super Lightweight Neural Representation for Large-scale 3D Mapping
- NeurIPS 2024[Re] CUDA: Curriculum of Data Augmentation for Long‐tailed Recognition
- ICML 2024$H$-Consistency Guarantees for Regression
- ICLR 2024$\texttt{NAISR}$: A 3D Neural Additive Model for Interpretable Shape Representation
- CVPR 2024Decentralized Directed Collaboration for Personalized Federated Learning
- NeurIPS 2023[Re] FOCUS: Flexible Optimizable Counterfactual Explanations for Tree Ensembles
- ICML 2023$H$-Consistency Bounds for Pairwise Misranking Loss Surrogates
- ICLR 2023A Convergent Single-Loop Algorithm for Relaxation of Gromov-Wasserstein in Graph Data
- CVPR 20233DAvatarGAN: Bridging Domains for Personalized Editable Avatars
- NeurIPS 2026A Bitter Lesson for Data Filtering
- ICML 2026A Queueing-Theoretic Framework for Stability Analysis of LLM Inference with KV Cache Memory Constraints
- ICLR 2026Bayesian Neural Networks for Functional ANOVA Model
- CVPR 2026Active Perceptual Inference A Corticothalamic-Inspired Dynamic Nested Recurrent Network for
All Simulation for Driving papers
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- CVPR 2026Scaling-Aware Data Selection for End-to-End Autonomous Driving Systems
- CVPR 2026Scan Clusters Not Pixels A Cluster-Centric Paradigm for Efficient Ultra-high-definition
- CVPR 2026SCE-Depth A Spherical Compound Eye Framework for Wide FOV Depth
- CVPR 2026Scene Reconstruction as Mapping Priors for 3D Detection
- CVPR 2026SceneTok A Compressed Diffusable Token Space for 3D Scenes
- CVPR 2026SDTrack A Baseline for Event-based Tracking via Spiking Neural Networks
- CVPR 2026SeaCache Spectral-Evolution-Aware Cache for Accelerating Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2026SearchAD Large-Scale Rare Image Retrieval Dataset for Autonomous Driving
- CVPR 2026See Less See Right Bi-directional Perceptual Shaping For Multimodal Reasoning
- CVPR 2026Seeing What Matters A Training-Free Self-Guided Framework for Multimodal Detail
- CVPR 2026SegEarth-R2 Towards Comprehensive Language-guided Segmentation for Remote Sensing Images
- CVPR 2026Selective Amnesia using Contrastive Subnet Erasure for Class Level Unlearning
- CVPR 2026Self-Attention Driven Tensor Representation for High-Order Data Recovery
- CVPR 2026Semantic Alignment for Pose-Invariant Identity Preserving Diffusion
- CVPR 2026Semantic Context Matters Improving Conditioning for Autoregressive Models
- CVPR 2026Semantic Scale Space A Framework for Controllable Image Abstraction
- CVPR 2026Semantic-Guided Global-Local Collaborative Prompt Learning for Few-Shot Class Incremental Learning
- CVPR 2026SemLT3D Semantic-Guided Expert Distillation for Camera-only Long-Tailed 3D Object Detection
- CVPR 2026Sensor2Sensor Cross-Embodiment Sensor Conversion for Autonomous Driving
- CVPR 2026SGAD-SLAM Splatting Gaussians at Adjusted Depth for Better Radiance Fields
- CVPR 2026SGDE Self-supervised Geometry Degradation Estimation Framework for Coded Aperture Compressive
- CVPR 2026SGDrive Scene-to-Goal Hierarchical World Cognition for Autonomous Driving
- CVPR 2026SGS-Intrinsic Semantic-Invariant Gaussian Splatting for Sparse-View Indoor Inverse Rendering
- CVPR 2026SGSoft Learning Fused Semantic-Geometric Features for 3D Shape Correspondence via
- CVPR 2026Shape-of-You Fused Gromov-Wasserstein Optimal Transport for Semantic Correspondence in-the-Wild
- CVPR 2026Shedding Light on VLN Robustness A Black-box Framework for Indoor
- CVPR 2026SignPR A Progressive Vector-Quantized Diffusion Framework for Sign Language Production
- CVPR 2026Simple but Effective Triplet-Based Compression Strategies for Compact Visual Localization
- CVPR 2026SimScale Learning to Drive via Real-World Simulation at Scale
- CVPR 2026SIMSPINE A Biomechanics-Aware Simulation Framework for 3D Spine Motion Annotation
- CVPR 2026SinGeo Unlock Single Models Potential for Robust Cross-View Geo-Localization
- CVPR 2026SketchDeco Training-Free Latent Composition for Precise Sketch Colourisation
- CVPR 2026Smart Replay Adaptive Scheduling of Memory Rehearsal for Computational Resource-Aware
- CVPR 2026SoC Semantic Orthogonal Calibration for Test-Time Prompt Tuning
- CVPR 2026SODA Sensitivity-Oriented Dynamic Acceleration for Diffusion Transformer
- CVPR 2026Solving a Nonlinear Blind Inverse Problem for Tagged MRI with
- CVPR 2026SpaceDrive Infusing Spatial Awareness into VLM-based Autonomous Driving
- CVPR 2026SPAN Spatial-Projection Alignment for Monocular 3D Object Detection
- CVPR 2026Sparsely Timing the Change A Spiking Temporal Framework for Remote
- CVPR 2026Sparsity-Aware Voxel Attention and Foreground Modulation for 3D Semantic Scene
- CVPR 2026Spatial-Frequency Collaborative Learning for Occluded Visible-Infrared Person Re-Identification
- CVPR 2026Spatial-Spectral Residuals Informed Diffusion Neural Operator for Pan-sharpening
- CVPR 2026SpatialScore Towards Comprehensive Evaluation for Spatial Intelligence
- CVPR 2026Spatio-Temporal Conditional Denoising Transformer for Modality-Missing RGBT Tracking
- CVPR 2026Spatiotemporal Pyramid Flow Matching for Climate Emulation
- CVPR 2026Spe-BEVHead Rethinking the Detection Head Design for Birds-Eye-View Object Detection
- CVPR 2026Spectral Mixture-of-Experts for Continual Learning
- CVPR 2026Spectral Scalpel Amplifying Adjacent Action Discrepancy via Frequency-Selective Filtering for
- CVPR 2026Spectrally Distilled Representations Aligned with Instruction-Augmented LLMs for Satellite Imagery
- CVPR 2026Spike-driven Discrete Aggregation for Event-based Object Detection
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FAQ
- How many Simulation for Driving papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?
- 5,882 in total: 969 in 2023, 1,308 in 2024, 1,405 in 2025, 2,200 in 2026.
- How many Simulation for Driving papers are at NeurIPS 2026?
- NeurIPS 2026 has 940 Simulation for Driving papers, versus 542 the year before.
- How many Simulation for Driving papers are at ICLR 2026?
- ICLR 2026 has 313 Simulation for Driving papers, versus 228 the year before.
- How many Simulation for Driving papers are at ICML 2026?
- ICML 2026 has 363 Simulation for Driving papers, versus 275 the year before.
- How many Simulation for Driving papers are at CVPR 2026?
- CVPR 2026 has 584 Simulation for Driving papers, versus 360 the year before.
- Which conference publishes the most Simulation for Driving papers?
- NeurIPS, with 2,111 papers from 2023 to 2026.