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 2026SplineFlow: Flow Matching for Dynamical Systems with B-Spline Interpolants
- NeurIPS 2026Split Then Select: Moment-Preserving Density Control for Generalized Primitive Splatting
- NeurIPS 2026SplitZip: Ultra Fast Lossless KV Compression for Disaggregated LLM Serving
- NeurIPS 2026SREGym: A Live Benchmark for AI SRE Agents with High-Fidelity Failure Scenarios
- NeurIPS 2026SSDGExplainer: Structure-Semantic Dual-Guided Explainer for Graph Neural Networks
- NeurIPS 2026Stability Regimes for Framing-Sensitive Fine-Tuning in Language Models
- NeurIPS 2026Stabilizing RL+Search for Imperfect-Information Extensive-Form Games
- NeurIPS 2026Stable and Scalable Probabilistic Numerical Solvers for Stiff and High-Dimensional ODEs
- NeurIPS 2026Stable Partial Order Constraints for Temporal Causal Structure Learning
- NeurIPS 2026StableVQ: Practical Guidelines for Stable Vector-Quantized Tokenizer Training
- NeurIPS 2026StainNFT: Curriculum-Gated Multi-Reward Post-Training for Pathology-Faithful Virtual Staining
- NeurIPS 2026STAPO: Stabilizing Reinforcement Learning for LLMs by Silencing Rare Spurious Tokens
- NeurIPS 2026StarCraft Motion: A Dataset for Agent Simulation in Adversarial and Partially Observable Scenarios
- NeurIPS 2026STARE: Surprisal-Guided Token-Level Advantage Reweighting for Policy Entropy Stability
- NeurIPS 2026State Evolution Awareness for Category-agnostic 3D Point Cloud Tracking
- NeurIPS 2026Static-Dynamic Disentanglement for Efficient Multi-Frame Vision-Language-Action Models
- NeurIPS 2026Statistical Mixing Guarantees for Contractive Echo State Networks
- NeurIPS 2026Statistical Query Lower Bounds for Smoothed Agnostic Learning
- NeurIPS 2026STEER: Route-Aware Adaptive Reasoning for Autonomous Driving
- NeurIPS 2026Steering Externalities: Benign Activation Steering Unintentionally Increases Jailbreak Risk for Large Language Models
- NeurIPS 2026Stein Transport for Generative Modeling
- NeurIPS 2026STEP: Learning STructured Embeddings for Progressive Time Series
- NeurIPS 2026Sticky Jump Diffusions: A Unifying Framework for Discrete, Continuous, and Hybrid Diffusion
- NeurIPS 2026Stochastic Dynamic Barrier Perturbed Gradient Methods for Nonconvex Simple Bilevel Optimization
- NeurIPS 2026Stochastic Grouping Conformal Prediction for Effective Subgroup Reliability
- NeurIPS 2026Stochastic Reconfiguration as Statistical Filtering for Overparameterized Neural Quantum States
- NeurIPS 2026Stop Quantum Machine Learning; do AI-for-Quantum instead
- NeurIPS 2026Stop the Sampler! Classifier-Based Adaptive Stopping for Sampling Kernels
- NeurIPS 2026StreamPI: Streaming Multimodal Temporal Modeling for Vision-Language-Action Models
- NeurIPS 2026Stroke-Audited Quadratic Bezier Splatting with Structural Initialization for Efficient Painting Rendering
- NeurIPS 2026StructLens: A Structural Lens for Language Models via Maximum Spanning Trees
- NeurIPS 2026Structural Support Certificates for Mechanistic Hypothesis Selection
- NeurIPS 2026Structured Coupling for Flow Matching
- NeurIPS 2026Structured Masked Diffusion for Joint Multiuser Decoding
- NeurIPS 2026Structured Unitary Tensor Network Representations for Circuit-Efficient Quantum Data Encoding
- NeurIPS 2026Sub-Gaussian Confidence Intervals for Heavy-Tailed Data: Characterizing the Limits of Inference
- NeurIPS 2026Subset-Conditioned Boundary Compensation for Missing-Modality Multimodal Classification
- NeurIPS 2026Subspace-Guided Continual Learning: Hessian Based Stable–Plastic Decomposition for Exemplar-Free Class-Incremental Learning
- NeurIPS 2026SudoBench: A Contextual Authorization Benchmark for LLM Agents
- NeurIPS 2026Support Mismatch as a Benchmark Failure Mode for In-Context Prediction
- NeurIPS 2026Susceptibilities for Neural Networks Learning from Physical Data
- NeurIPS 2026SVDP: Training-Free Contextual Sparsity Predictors for Fast LLM Inference
- NeurIPS 2026Symb-xMIL: Symbolic Explanations for Multiple Instance Learning in Digital Pathology
- NeurIPS 2026Symplectic Neural Operators for Learning Infinite Dimensional Hamiltonian Systems
- NeurIPS 2026Symplectic Parallel Scan: A Neural Hamiltonian Framework for Accelerated Scientific Simulation
- NeurIPS 2026SynIB: Informational Bottleneck for Maximizing Synergy in Multimodal Learning
- NeurIPS 2026T-ReX: Learning Tile-Reuse Indexes for Structured Model Compression
- NeurIPS 2026TabBioMed: A Large-Scale Benchmark for Biomedical Tabular Learning
- NeurIPS 2026TabClustPFN: A Prior-Fitted Network for Tabular Data Clustering
- NeurIPS 2026Tail Competition Explains Scaling in Best-of-N Sampling for Verifiable Problems
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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.