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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- NeurIPS 2026Local linear convergence of gradient methods for overparameterized Gaussian mixtures
- NeurIPS 2026LocalAgent: Collaborative Agentic Verification for Fine-Grained Instance-Level Consistency
- NeurIPS 2026Log-Averaged Mirror Prox for Fast, Large-Scale Optimal Transport in Linear Space
- NeurIPS 2026Logarithmic Depth Suffices for In-Context Gradient Descent
- NeurIPS 2026Logit-Gap Steering: A Forward-Pass Diagnostic for Alignment Robustness
- NeurIPS 2026LoopPrune: Evolutionary Module Selection with Iterative Execution for Efficient Large Language Model Compression
- NeurIPS 2026M*: A Modular, Extensible, Serving System for Multimodal Models
- NeurIPS 2026M$^3$: Reframing Training Measures for Discretized Physical Simulations
- NeurIPS 2026M4Bench: Evaluating Procedural Specification for Clinical EHR Derivation Agents
- NeurIPS 2026Macrocanonical Generator Networks: data-efficient neural surrogates for amortized physics simulation
- NeurIPS 2026MainFL: Intertemporal Data Valuation for Robust Auction-based Federated Learning
- NeurIPS 2026Majority Bit-Aware Watermarking for Large Language Models
- NeurIPS 2026MANGO:Multi-Angle Neural Gated Operators for Chirp-Perturbed PDEs
- NeurIPS 2026Manifold Prior Guided Deep Unfolding for Hyperspectral Image Reconstruction
- NeurIPS 2026Manifold-Aligned Adversarial Perturbation for Anti-Customization under Diffusion-based Purification
- NeurIPS 2026Manifold-Guided Stereo-Monocular Refinement for Endoscopic Stereo Disparity Estimation
- NeurIPS 2026Map-Guided Caching: A Global Perspective for Efficient Diffusion Transformer
- NeurIPS 2026MaPP: A Unified Marginalized Posterior-Predictive Framework for Data-Efficient RLVR
- NeurIPS 2026MapPolicy: Structure-Aware Imitation Learning for Robot Manipulation via Physically Constrained Scene Map
- NeurIPS 2026Margin Dynamics for Large Language Model Alignment
- NeurIPS 2026MaRK: Markov-adapted Recurrent Kernels for Dynamic Operator Conditioning in State Space Models
- NeurIPS 2026MC^2: Monte Carlo Correction for Fast Elliptic PDE Solving
- NeurIPS 2026MCP-Atlas: A Large-Scale Benchmark for Tool-Use Competency with Real MCP Servers
- NeurIPS 2026MCSplat: Multi-View Photometric and Geometric Consistent Feed-Forward Gaussian Splatting for Driving Scenes
- NeurIPS 2026MDPBench: A Benchmark for Multilingual Document Parsing in Real-World Scenarios
- NeurIPS 2026Mean-Field Parallel Decoding for Discrete Diffusion Language Models
- NeurIPS 2026Mechanistic Critics for Sample-Efficient NPU Design-Space Exploration
- NeurIPS 2026MedCache: Training-Free Spatially Aware Caching for Accelerated Medical Video Generation
- NeurIPS 2026MemeEconomy : Do LLM Agents Trade Ethics for Survival?
- NeurIPS 2026Memory Type Varies: Empowering LLM Agents for Long-Term Memory with Diverse Strategies
- NeurIPS 2026MentalHospital: A Virtual Environment for Evaluating Psychiatric Clinical Encounters
- NeurIPS 2026META-PAP: Meta-learning for Prompt-aware Preference Pairing in LLM Alignment
- NeurIPS 2026Meta-TTRL: A Metacognitive Framework for Self-Improving Test-Time Reinforcement Learning for T2I Generation in Unified Multimodal Models
- NeurIPS 2026METAFORGET: Audit-Driven Update-Policy Learning for Reliable Language Model Unlearning
- NeurIPS 2026MetaKE: Meta-Learning for Knowledge Editing Toward a Better Accuracy-Editability Trade-off
- NeurIPS 2026MetaLoop: Benchmarking the Full Metacognitive Loop in LLMs
- NeurIPS 2026MICA: Activation Checkpointing for Double-Backward Training of Machine Learning Interatomic Potentials
- NeurIPS 2026MiCo: Microstructure-Consistent Flow Matching for Diffusion MRI Angular Super-Resolution
- NeurIPS 2026Mini Amusement Parks (MAPs): A Testbed for Modelling Business Decisions
- NeurIPS 2026MIRAGE: Duality-Inspired MILP Augmentation for Representation Learning
- NeurIPS 2026MIRAGE: Hierarchical MI-Surrogate Regulation for Graph Contrastive Learning
- NeurIPS 2026Mirror descent actor-critic methods for entropy regularised MDPs in general spaces: stability and convergence
- NeurIPS 2026Mirror Descent-Ascent for mean-field min-max problems
- NeurIPS 2026MixRoute: Rethinking Single-Distribution Training for Generalizable Neural Routing
- NeurIPS 2026ML-assisted Randomization Tests for A/B Experiments
- NeurIPS 2026MLLMs Fail to Refuse when Using Tools Agentically
- NeurIPS 2026MoBiQuant: Mixture-of-Bits Quantization for Token-Adaptive Any-Precision LLM
- NeurIPS 2026Modulating Merging Strengths via Joint Loss Estimation for LoRA-based Continual Learning
- NeurIPS 2026Monoculture Robust Learning
- NeurIPS 2026More Value per Key: Asymmetric Sparse Attention for Faster LLM Decoding
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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.