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
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- ICLR 2026MeanCache: From Instantaneous to Average Velocity for Accelerating Flow Matching Inference
- ICLR 2026MeSH: Memory-as-State-Highways for Recursive Transformers
- ICLR 2026MicroMix: Efficient Mixed-Precision Quantization with Microscaling Formats for Large Language Models
- ICLR 2026MindPilot: Closed-loop Visual Stimulation Optimization for Brain Modulation with EEG-guided Diffusion
- ICLR 2026Minimax-Optimal Aggregation for Density Ratio Estimation
- ICLR 2026MoBE: Mixture-of-Basis-Experts for Compressing MoE-based LLMs
- ICLR 2026MoNE: Replacing Redundant Experts with Lightweight Novices for Structured Pruning of MoE
- ICLR 2026MoRA: Mobility as the Backbone for Geospatial Representation Learning at Scale
- ICLR 2026Multifidelity Simulation-based Inference for Computationally Expensive Simulators
- ICLR 2026Musculoskeletal simulation of limb movement biomechanics in Drosophila melanogaster
- ICLR 2026NC-Bench and NCfold: A Benchmark and Closed-Loop Framework for RNA Non-Canonical Base-Pair Prediction
- ICLR 2026Near-Optimal Sample Complexity Bounds for Constrained Average-Reward MDPs
- ICLR 2026Near-Optimal Second-Order Guarantees for Model-Based Adversarial Imitation Learning
- ICLR 2026Neural Graduated Assignment for Maximum Common Edge Subgraphs
- ICLR 2026Neural Hamilton--Jacobi Characteristic Flows for Optimal Transport
- ICLR 2026Neural Latent Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian Grids for Fluid-Solid Interaction
- ICLR 2026Neural Posterior Estimation with Latent Basis Expansions
- ICLR 2026Non-Collaborative User Simulators for Tool Agents
- ICLR 2026Not-a-Bandit: Provably No-Regret Drafter Selection in Speculative Decoding for LLMs
- ICLR 2026NRGPT: An Energy-based Alternative for GPT
- ICLR 2026Null-Space Filtering for Data-free Continual Model Merging: Preserving Transparency, Promoting Fidelity
- ICLR 2026OBS-Diff: Accurate Pruning For Diffusion Models in One-Shot
- ICLR 2026OccDriver: Future Occupancy Guided Dual-branch Trajectory Planner in Autonomous Driving
- ICLR 2026Octax: Accelerated CHIP-8 Arcade Environments for Reinforcement Learning in JAX
- ICLR 2026OFMU: OPTIMIZATION-DRIVEN FRAMEWORK FOR MACHINE UNLEARNING
- ICLR 2026OmniField: Conditioned Neural Fields for Robust Multimodal Spatiotemporal Learning
- ICLR 2026On Coreset for LASSO Regression Problem with Sensitivity Sampling
- ICLR 2026On Smoothness Bounds for Non-Clairvoyant Scheduling with Predictions
- ICLR 2026On the Benefits of Weight Normalization for Overparameterized Matrix Sensing
- ICLR 2026On the Expressive Power of GNNs for Boolean Satisfiability
- ICLR 2026On the Impossibility of Separating Intelligence from Judgment: The Computational Intractability of Filtering for AI Alignment
- ICLR 2026One-Prompt Strikes Back: Sparse Mixture of Experts for Prompt-based Continual Learning
- ICLR 2026OpenPros: A Large-Scale Dataset for Limited View Prostate Ultrasound Computed Tomography
- ICLR 2026OpenThoughts: Data Recipes for Reasoning Models
- ICLR 2026Optimal transport unlocks end-to-end learning for single-molecule localization
- ICLR 2026OR-PRM: A Process Reward Model for Algorithmic Problem in Operations Research
- ICLR 2026OrthoSolver: A Neural Proper Orthogonal Decomposition Solver For PDEs
- ICLR 2026Overlap-Adaptive Regularization for Conditional Average Treatment Effect Estimation
- ICLR 2026Overlap-weighted orthogonal meta-learner for treatment effect estimation over time
- ICLR 2026Overtone: Cyclic Patch Modulation for Cleaner, Faster Physics Emulators
- ICLR 2026P3D: Highly Scalable 3D Neural Surrogates for Physics Simulations with Global Context
- ICLR 2026PAC-Bayes bounds for cumulative loss in Continual Learning
- ICLR 2026PairFlow: Closed-Form Source-Target Coupling for Few-Step Generation in Discrete Flow Models
- ICLR 2026Panda: A pretrained forecast model for chaotic dynamics
- ICLR 2026PASER: Post-Training Data Selection for Efficient Pruned Large Language Model Recovery
- ICLR 2026Peak-Return Greedy Slicing: Subtrajectory Selection for Transformer-based Offline RL
- ICLR 2026PhyScensis: Physics-Augmented LLM Agents for Complex Physical Scene Arrangement
- ICLR 2026PLANETALIGN: A Comprehensive Python Library for Benchmarking Network Alignment
- ICLR 2026PLoP: Precise LoRA Placement for Efficient Finetuning of Large Models
- ICLR 2026Poisson Midpoint Method for Log Concave Sampling: Beyond the Strong Error Lower Bounds
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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.