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
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- CVPR 2026UniDAC Universal Metric Depth Estimation for Any Camera
- CVPR 2026Unified Primitive Proxies for Structured Shape Completion
- CVPR 2026Unifying Language-Action Understanding and Generation for Autonomous Driving
- CVPR 2026UniGeoRS A Unified Benchmark for Tri-view Geo-Localization
- CVPR 2026UniLight A Unified Representation for Lighting
- CVPR 2026UniTEX Universal High Fidelity Generative Texturing for 3D Shapes
- CVPR 2026Unlocking Pre-trained Weights Parameter Inheritance for Zero-Shot Initialization
- CVPR 2026Unlocking the Power of Critical Factors for 3D Visual Geometry
- CVPR 2026Unposed-to-3D Learning Simulation-Ready Vehicles from Real-World Images
- CVPR 2026URICA A Uniformity Region Affine Identifier Capture Algorithm for Arbitrary
- CVPR 2026UST-Hand An Uncertainty-aware Spatiotemporal Point Cloud Interaction Network for 3D
- CVPR 2026VecAttention Vector-wise Sparse Attention for Accelerating Long Context Inference
- CVPR 2026VENI Variational Encoder for Natural Illumination
- CVPR 2026VGGDrive Empowering Vision-Language Models with Cross-View Geometric Grounding for Autonomous
- CVPR 2026View-Aware Semantic Alignment for Aerial-Ground Person Re-Identification
- CVPR 2026VIRAL Visual Sim-to-Real at Scale for Humanoid Loco-Manipulation
- CVPR 2026VIRD View-Invariant Representation through Dual-Axis Transformation for Cross-View Pose Estimation
- CVPR 2026Virtual Nodes Guided Dynamic Graph Neural Network for Brain Tumor
- CVPR 2026VisionDirector Vision-Language Guided Closed-Loop Refinement for Generative Image Synthesis
- CVPR 2026ViStoryBench Comprehensive Benchmark Suite for Story Visualization
- CVPR 2026VKG-QA Visual Knowledge Graph-based Question Answer for Large Multimodal Models
- CVPR 2026VLM-Pruner Buffering for Spatial Sparsity in an Efficient VLM Centrifugal
- CVPR 2026VLM-PTQ Efficient Post-Training Quantization for Large Vision-Language Models
- CVPR 2026Wanderland Geometrically Grounded Simulation for Open-World Embodied AI
- CVPR 2026When Transformers Meet Mamba A Hybrid Transformer-Mamba Network for Video
- CVPR 2026WhisperNet A Scalable Solution for Bandwidth-Efficient Collaboration
- CVPR 2026WildPose A Unified Framework for Robust Pose Estimation in the
- CVPR 2026WOD-E2E Waymo Open Dataset for End-to-End Driving in Challenging Long-tail
- CVPR 2026WorldLens Full-Spectrum Evaluations of Driving World Models in Real World
- CVPR 2026X-band Radar Non-Line-of-Sight Imaging
- CVPR 2026XPaintNet An eXtreme Lightweight Framework for Stereoscopic Conversion without Inpainting
- CVPR 2026Your Latent Mask is Wrong Pixel-Equivalent Latent Compositing for Diffusion
- CVPR 2026Z-Order Transformer for Feed-Forward Gaussian Splatting
- CVPR 20253D-MVP: 3D Multiview Pretraining for Manipulation
- CVPR 20253D-SLNR: A Super Lightweight Neural Representation for Large-scale 3D Mapping
- CVPR 20254Deform: Neural Surface Deformation for Robust Shape Interpolation
- CVPR 2025A Closer Look at Time Steps is Worthy of Triple Speed-Up for Diffusion Model Training
- CVPR 2025A Dataset for Semantic Segmentation in the Presence of Unknowns
- CVPR 2025A Flag Decomposition for Hierarchical Datasets
- CVPR 2025A Lightweight UDF Learning Framework for 3D Reconstruction Based on Local Shape Functions
- CVPR 2025A Physics-Informed Blur Learning Framework for Imaging Systems
- CVPR 2025A Regularization-Guided Equivariant Approach for Image Restoration
- CVPR 2025A Selective Re-learning Mechanism for Hyperspectral Fusion Imaging
- CVPR 2025A Simple Data Augmentation for Feature Distribution Skewed Federated Learning
- CVPR 2025A Stitch in Time Saves Nine: Small VLM is a Precise Guidance for Accelerating Large VLMs
- CVPR 2025A Unified Framework for Heterogeneous Semi-supervised Learning
- CVPR 2025A Unified Model for Compressed Sensing MRI Across Undersampling Patterns
- CVPR 2025Accurate Differential Operators for Hybrid Neural Fields
- CVPR 2025ACL: Activating Capability of Linear Attention for Image Restoration
- CVPR 2025Activating Sparse Part Concepts for 3D Class Incremental Learning
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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.