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 2026Scale Where It Matters: Training-Free Localized Scaling for Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2026Scale-Invariant Empirical-Bayes Laplace Approximation for ReLU Networks
- NeurIPS 2026Scaling Laws for SAE Training Data
- NeurIPS 2026Scaling Storm-Resolving Atmospheric AI Simulation to the Entire Planet
- NeurIPS 2026SCDBench: A Benchmark for LLM-Based Smart Contract Decompilers
- NeurIPS 2026SceneFactory: GPU-Accelerated Multi-Agent Driving Simulation with Physics-Based Vehicle Dynamics
- NeurIPS 2026SCOPE: Self-Play via Co-Evolving Policies for Open-Ended Tasks
- NeurIPS 2026SD-Search: Hindsight Self-Distillation for Search-Augmented Reasoning
- NeurIPS 2026Seirênes: Adversarial Self-Play with Evolving Distractions for LLM Reasoning
- NeurIPS 2026SEISMOS: A Statistical Signal Detection Framework for Semantic Chunking
- NeurIPS 2026Self-Programmed Execution for Language-Model Agents
- NeurIPS 2026SETA: Scaling Environments for Terminal Agents
- NeurIPS 2026SGEvolve: Semantic Gradient Guidance for LLM-Driven Evolutionary Search
- NeurIPS 2026SH$^2$: A Mathematician-Curated benchmark for Assessing Research-level Math Capabilities of LLMs
- NeurIPS 2026Shared Modular Recurrence in Contextual MDPs for Universal Morphology Control
- NeurIPS 2026Shared-Noise Mechanisms for Verifiable Differentially Private Counting
- NeurIPS 2026Sharp Non-Asymptotic Analysis of the Penalized Challenger in $\beta$-EB-TCI for Bernoulli Bandits
- NeurIPS 2026Sharpness-Aware Hybrid Model Learning for Architecture-Agnostic Parameter Estimation
- NeurIPS 2026Should We Pay This Much for Robustness? Efficient Proxy Certificates with Marginal Guarantees
- NeurIPS 2026Signed-Permutation Coordinate Transport for RMSNorm Transformers
- NeurIPS 2026Similarity-Constrained Reweighting for Complex Query Answering on Knowledge Graphs
- NeurIPS 2026Simulation-aided Reinforcement Learning with Control Variates
- NeurIPS 2026Simulation-free Unbalanced Dynamic Optimal Transport with General Growth Penalty
- NeurIPS 2026SIRAS: Sibling-Relative Advantage Shaping for Reinforcement Learning from Verifiable Rewards
- NeurIPS 2026SkillOpt: Executive Strategy for Self-Evolving Agent Skills
- NeurIPS 2026SLOPE: Optimistic Potential Landscape Shaping for Model-based Reinforcement Learning
- NeurIPS 2026SLS-Bench: A Benchmark for Incident Log Summarization with Synthetic Observability Data
- NeurIPS 2026Small Model Portfolios for Many Deployment Profiles: Submodular Coverage under Bundled Constraints
- NeurIPS 2026SMI: Statistical Membership Inference for Reliable Unlearned Model Auditing
- NeurIPS 2026SOAR: Regression-based LiDAR Relocalization for UAVs
- NeurIPS 2026SOC-ICNN: From Polyhedral to Conic Geometry for Learning Convex Surrogate Functions
- NeurIPS 2026SoDeArena: A Socially-Situated Reasoning Benchmark for Large Language Models
- NeurIPS 2026Solver-as-Teacher: Solver-Guided On-Policy Post-Training Framework for PDE Foundation Models
- NeurIPS 2026Solver-Aware Decompositions for Programming-by-Example: When Dividing Requires Knowing how to Conquer
- NeurIPS 2026SolvMix: Learning Formulation-State Landscapes for Liquid Electrolyte Conductivity Prediction
- NeurIPS 2026SP-CACW: Convergence-Aware Client Weighting for Selfish Personalized Learning
- NeurIPS 2026SPA-Q: Structure-Preserving Adaptive Post-Training Quantization for Monocular Depth Estimation
- NeurIPS 2026SpaG-DiT: Enhancing Spatial Grounding for Diffusion Transformers
- NeurIPS 2026Sparse Attention as a Range Searching Problem: Towards an Inference-Efficient Index for KV Cache
- NeurIPS 2026Sparse Internal Control of Language Models
- NeurIPS 2026Sparse Sum-of-Squares Layers for Certified Learning
- NeurIPS 2026SPDEBench: An Extensive Benchmark for Learning Stochastic PDEs
- NeurIPS 2026SpecDrop: Parameter-Free Category-Conditioned Routing for Modular Specialization
- NeurIPS 2026Spectral Insights from the Unconstrained Feature Model for Neural Multi-Output Regression
- NeurIPS 2026Spectral Quantum Memory for Implicit Neural Representations
- NeurIPS 2026Spectral Representations for Provably Robust Offline Meta-Reinforcement Learning from Bagged Rewards
- NeurIPS 2026Spectral Unlearning: Transformer Structure-Preserving Updates for Language Model
- NeurIPS 2026Spherical Flows for Sampling Categorical Data
- NeurIPS 2026Spikes as Detectors: Phase-Conditioned Spiking Dynamics for Time-Series Anomaly Detection
- NeurIPS 2026Spiking neural network initialization for scale-invariant maximization of entropy
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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.