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 2026TailDiff: Elicitable Tail-Guided Diffusion for Risk-Sensitive Generation
- NeurIPS 2026TanGCE: Manifold-Aware Concept Erasure
- NeurIPS 2026Target-Aware Nuisance Shaping for Object Detection
- NeurIPS 2026Target-Budget Best-Function Identification for Scaling-Law-Guided Model Selection
- NeurIPS 2026TARP: Trace-Anchored Regularization Prior for Retaining Stepwise Reasoning
- NeurIPS 2026TasteBench: multimodal benchmark for sensory prediction, from molecules to sustainable foods
- NeurIPS 2026TELEVAL: A Benchmark Designed for Spoken Language Models in Chinese Interactive Scenarios
- NeurIPS 2026Temporal Pair Consistency for Flow Matching
- NeurIPS 2026The Alternation Depth Principle for Neural Operator Design
- NeurIPS 2026The Cost of Absolute Position: A Spread-Expressivity Tradeoff for Additive Positional Encodings
- NeurIPS 2026The Denoising Wrapper: A Modular Post-Processing Framework for Noisy First-Order Optimizers
- NeurIPS 2026The Dormant Spiking Neuron: A State-Driven Mechanism for Efficient Spiking Neural Networks
- NeurIPS 2026The FACTS Leaderboard: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Large Language Model Factuality
- NeurIPS 2026The Multiscale Single-Index Model: A Toy Model for Hierarchical Feature Learning
- NeurIPS 2026The Power of Second Order Methods for Sequence Preconditioning
- NeurIPS 2026The Spectral Amplitude Principle for Dynamics of Quantum Neural Networks
- NeurIPS 2026Theoretical guidelines for annealed Langevin dynamics in compositional simulation-based inference
- NeurIPS 2026Theoretical Limits of Language Model Alignment
- NeurIPS 2026Think Before You Generate: Active Panoramic Exploration for Text-to-3D Scenes
- NeurIPS 2026TIDE: Asymmetric Neural Circuits for Stabilized Temporal Inhibitory-Excitatory Dynamics
- NeurIPS 2026To discretize continually: Mean shift interacting particle systems for Bayesian inference
- NeurIPS 2026To See Far, Look Close: Evolutionary Forecasting for Long-term Time Series
- NeurIPS 2026TokenRouter: Efficient Serving System for Token-Level LLM Routing
- NeurIPS 2026Tokens-per-Parameter Coverage Is Critical for Robust LLM Scaling Law Extrapolation
- NeurIPS 2026Tools as Continuous Flow for Evolving Agentic Reasoning
- NeurIPS 2026TopoScope: A Graph-Scoped LLM Agent for Printed Circuit Board Schematic Design
- NeurIPS 2026TORNADO: Adaptive Latent Stochastic Transport for Calibrated Probabilistic PDE Forecasting
- NeurIPS 2026ToS: Tree-of-Skill Reinforcement Learning driven by Behavior Tree for Long-Horizon Manipulation
- NeurIPS 2026Toward Minimal-dimensional Convex Calibrated Surrogate Losses for Classification with Rejection
- NeurIPS 2026Toward Semantically-Consistent Tuning-Free Customization for Rectified Flow Transformers
- NeurIPS 2026Towards On-Policy Data Evolution for Visual-Native Multimodal Deep Search Agents
- NeurIPS 2026Towards Optimal Pre-training Data Mixtures for Empowering Reinforcement Learning in LLMs
- NeurIPS 2026Towards Precise Knowledge Distillation for Large Language Models via Knowledge Probing
- NeurIPS 2026Towards Real-world Human Behavior Simulation: Benchmarking Large Language Models on Long-horizon, Cross-scenario, Heterogeneous Behavior Traces
- NeurIPS 2026Towards Scalable Data Diversification for Language Model Pretraining via Leverage Score Sampling
- NeurIPS 2026Towards Self-Supervised, Generalizable and Decomposable 4D Driving Scene Reconstruction
- NeurIPS 2026TPO: Tri-level Distributionally Robust Learning for OOD Direct Preference Optimization
- NeurIPS 2026Train on the Sphere, Deploy on the Hill: Closed-Form-Anchored Surrogates for Real-Terrain Boundary-Integral Equations
- NeurIPS 2026Training-Free Entangler Selection for Quantum Neural Networks via Hilbert–Schmidt Geometry
- NeurIPS 2026Trajectory Evaluation via Rollout-Free World Model for End-to-end Autonomous Driving
- NeurIPS 2026Trajectory-Consistent Dropout for Uncertainty Decomposition in Hamiltonian Neural Networks
- NeurIPS 2026Trajectory-Matching Meta Pseudo-Labeling for Semi-Supervised Learning
- NeurIPS 2026Transductive Generalization for GNNs via Optimal Transport
- NeurIPS 2026Transolver-GMsFEM: A Hybrid Framework for High-Contrast Multiscale PDEs on Irregular Grids
- NeurIPS 2026Traversal-Invariant Positional Encoding for Serialized Graphs
- NeurIPS 2026Tree Rotary Positional Encoding for Extreme Length Extrapolation from Scratch
- NeurIPS 2026TriAxialKV: Toward Extreme Low-Precision KV-Cache Quantization for Agentic Inference Tasks
- NeurIPS 2026TRIDENT: Post-Selection Evidence Accountability for Token-Efficient RAG
- NeurIPS 2026TUBE: Tangent Upper Bound on Evidence for Discrete Diffusion Language Models
- NeurIPS 2026TwinFlux: One-Step Discrete-Continuous Flow for End-to-End Autonomous Driving
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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.