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
Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up
- 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 2026ReFPO: Reflow Regularization for Flow Matching Policy Gradients
- NeurIPS 2026REGATE: Confidence-Calibrated Integration of Temporally-Aligned Exogenous Texts for Dynamic Graphs
- NeurIPS 2026RegimeVGGT: Layer-Wise Spatially Preserving Redundancy Removal for Visual Geometry Grounded Transformer
- NeurIPS 2026Regularization Paths for Continuous DAG Learning
- NeurIPS 2026Rehearsal-Free Statistical Prototype Regularization for Federated Incremental Learning
- NeurIPS 2026RelAgent: LLM Agents as Data Scientists for Relational Learning
- NeurIPS 2026Relevance Is Not Necessity: Selecting the Necessary API Set for Tool-Using LLMs
- NeurIPS 2026RelFlexformer: Efficient Attention Transformers for Integrable Relative Positional Encodings
- NeurIPS 2026Remember the Decision, Not the Description: A Rate-Distortion Framework for Agent Memory
- NeurIPS 2026ReorgGS: Equivalent Distribution Reorganization for 3D Gaussian Splatting
- NeurIPS 2026Replicas-as-Variables: A Planner for Throughput-Optimal Routing in LLM Deployment
- NeurIPS 2026Representation Forcing for Bottleneck-Free Unified Multimodal Models
- NeurIPS 2026Representation Preconditioning for Efficient Diffusion Model Training
- NeurIPS 2026ReSCUE: Re-translation with Sentence Commitment for Unsegmented Long-Form Simultaneous Sign Language Translation
- NeurIPS 2026Resilient Latent Readouts for Long-Context Question Answering
- NeurIPS 2026ResKV: Residual-based Channel-wise Unstructured Pruning for KV Cache Compression
- NeurIPS 2026Retain-Neutral Surrogates for Min-Max Unlearning
- NeurIPS 2026Rethinking Attention in Depth for Operator Learning
- NeurIPS 2026Rethinking Dataset Distillation for Classification: Do Distilled Sets Outperform Coresets?
- NeurIPS 2026Rethinking Softmax Attention: Polynomial Activations for Transformers
- NeurIPS 2026Rethinking the State Update Gate for Long-Sequence Recurrent 3D Reconstruction
- NeurIPS 2026RETR: A Structure-Preserving RGB-Event Transformer for Robust 3D Lane Detection
- NeurIPS 2026Revisiting Autoregressive GCNs for Vehicle Routing Problems
- NeurIPS 2026Revisiting Gradient Ascent: Machine Unlearning from a Geometric Perspective for Source-Free Scenarios
- NeurIPS 2026Revisiting On-policy Adversarial Black-Box Distillation: Calibrating Groupwise Reward Geometry for Effective Advantage Construction
- NeurIPS 2026Reviving Stale Updates: Data-Free Knowledge Distillation for Asynchronous Federated Learning
- NeurIPS 2026Reviving the Discarded High-Resolution Feature for Transformer-Based Tiny Object Detection
- NeurIPS 2026Reward Inflation: A Healthy Stimulus for Reinforcement Learning
- NeurIPS 2026Reward Is Not a Universal Interface for Generative Reinforcement Learning
- NeurIPS 2026Reward-Estimated Hypergradient for Bilevel Reinforcement Learning with Black-Box Follower
- NeurIPS 2026RGF: Recursive Generative Framework for the Edge-Cut Separable Problems
- NeurIPS 2026RL Excursions during Pre-training: How early is too early for on-policy learning?
- NeurIPS 2026RL-Guided Contraction of Symbolic Tensor Networks for Quantum Circuit Equivalence
- NeurIPS 2026Robust Amortized Simulation-Based Inference via Learned Error Models
- NeurIPS 2026Robust Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search for Any Dataset
- NeurIPS 2026Robust Importance Sampling for Rare Events via Constrained Gaussian Mixtures
- NeurIPS 2026Robust Offline Reinforcement Learning against Out-of-Distribution Dynamics in Autonomous Driving
- NeurIPS 2026Robust Residual Correction via Selective Deployment for Time Series Forecasting
- NeurIPS 2026ROCKET: Rapid Optimization via Calibration-guided Knapsack-Enhanced Truncation for Efficient Model Compression
- NeurIPS 2026ROTATE: Regret-driven Open-ended Training for Ad Hoc Teamwork
- NeurIPS 2026RSPO: Reasoning-Supervised Policy Optimization for Long-Tail Autonomous Driving
- NeurIPS 2026Rubato: Signature Attention for Irregular Multivariate Time Series Forecasting
- NeurIPS 2026RxnOptBench: Benchmarking LLMs for Reaction-Condition Optimization in Organic Methodology
- NeurIPS 2026S2T-RLHF: Hierarchical Credit Assignment for Stable Preference-Based RLHF
- NeurIPS 2026SAFE-FEC: Semantically Constrained Adversarial Frontier Evolution for Factual Error Correction
- NeurIPS 2026SAFE-Hair: Scalp-Anchored Fields for Exportable Single-View Hair Reconstruction
- NeurIPS 2026SAFTAC: Simulation-Augmented Fine-Tuning of Open-Source LLMs for Analog Circuit Design
- NeurIPS 2026Salvation Lies Within: Proactive Prefix Re-forming for LLM-based Tagging
- NeurIPS 2026Sample Size Design for Bounds on Discrete Probabilities of Causation
- NeurIPS 2026SAVE: Sparsity-Aware Influence Estimation for Vocabulary-Expanded LLMs
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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.