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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- ICLR 2026Computational Bottlenecks for Denoising Diffusions
- ICLR 2026Conditioned Initialization for Attention
- ICLR 2026ConsisDrive: Identity-Preserving Driving World Models for Video Generation by Instance Mask
- ICLR 2026Contact Wasserstein Geodesics for Non-Conservative Schrödinger Bridges
- ICLR 2026COSMOS: A Hybrid Adaptive Optimizer for Efficient Training of Large Language Models
- ICLR 2026Cost-of-Pass: An Economic Framework for Evaluating Language Models
- ICLR 2026Covariate-Guided Clusterwise Linear Regression for Generalization to Unseen Data
- ICLR 2026Cross-Tokenizer Likelihood Scoring Algorithms for Language Model Distillation
- ICLR 2026CryoNet.Refine: A One-step Diffusion Model for Rapid Refinement of Structural Models with Cryo-EM Density Map Restraints
- ICLR 2026Culture In a Frame: C$^3$B as a Comic-Based Benchmark for Multimodal Culturally Awareness
- ICLR 2026D-REX: Differentiable Real-to-Sim-to-Real Engine for Learning Dexterous Grasping
- ICLR 2026DASH: Deterministic Attention Scheduling for High-throughput Reproducible LLM Training
- ICLR 2026Data Selection for LLM Alignment Using Fine-Grained Preferences
- ICLR 2026DataMIL: Selecting Data for Robot Imitation Learning with Datamodels
- ICLR 2026Death of the Novel(ty): Beyond N-Gram Novelty as a Metric for Textual Creativity
- ICLR 2026Decision-Theoretic Approaches for Improved Learning-Augmented Algorithms
- ICLR 2026DeepWeightFlow: Re-Basined Flow Matching for Generating Neural Network Weights
- ICLR 2026DeNOTS: Stable Deep Neural ODEs for Time Series
- ICLR 2026Detecting Temporal Misalignment Attacks in Multimodal Fusion for Autonomous Driving
- ICLR 2026DexNDM: Closing the Reality Gap for Dexterous In-Hand Rotation via Joint-Wise Neural Dynamics Model
- ICLR 2026DHG-Bench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Deep Hypergraph Learning
- ICLR 2026Differentiable Simulation of Hard Contacts with Soft Gradients for Learning and Control
- ICLR 2026Dimension-Free Decision Calibration for Nonlinear Loss Functions
- ICLR 2026Dimension-Free Minimax Rates for Learning Pairwise Interactions in Attention-Style Models
- ICLR 2026Discrete Guidance Matching: Exact Guidance for Discrete Flow Matching
- ICLR 2026Disentangling Knowledge Representations for Large Language Model Editing
- ICLR 2026DistMLIP: A Distributed Inference Platform for Machine Learning Interatomic Potentials
- ICLR 2026Distributed Algorithms for Euclidean Clustering
- ICLR 2026DM4CT: Benchmarking Diffusion Models for Computed Tomography Reconstruction
- ICLR 2026Do We Really Need Permutations? Impact of Width Expansion on Linear Mode Connectivity
- ICLR 2026DP-Fusion: Token-Level Differentially Private Inference for Large Language Models
- ICLR 2026dParallel: Learnable Parallel Decoding for dLLMs
- ICLR 2026DragFlow: Unleashing DiT Priors with Region-Based Supervision for Drag Editing
- ICLR 2026DRIFT-Net: A Spectral-Coupled Neural Operator for PDEs Learning
- ICLR 2026DriveMamba: Task-Centric Scalable State Space Model for Efficient End-to-End Autonomous Driving
- ICLR 2026DrivingGen: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Generative Video World Models in Autonomous Driving
- ICLR 2026DTP: Delta-Guided Two Stage Pruning for Mamba-based Multimodal Large Language Models
- ICLR 2026DynamicInfer: Runtime-Aware Sparse Offloading for LLMs Inference on a Consumer-Grade GPU
- ICLR 2026e3: Learning to Explore Enables Extrapolation of Test-Time Compute for LLMs
- ICLR 2026Efficient algorithms for Incremental Metric Bipartite Matching
- ICLR 2026Efficient Autoregressive Inference for Transformer Probabilistic Models
- ICLR 2026Efficient Best-of-Both-Worlds Algorithms for Contextual Combinatorial Semi-Bandits
- ICLR 2026Efficient Message-Passing Transformer for Error Correcting Codes
- ICLR 2026Efficient Submodular Maximization for Sums of Concave over Modular Functions
- ICLR 2026Efficient Turing Machine Simulation with Transformers
- ICLR 2026EMFuse: Energy-based Model Fusion for Decision Making
- ICLR 2026Enhancing Persona Following at Decoding Time via Dynamic Importance Estimation for Role-Playing Agents
- ICLR 2026Entropy-Based Block Pruning for Efficient Large Language Models
- ICLR 2026Erase or Hide? Suppressing Spurious Unlearning Neurons for Robust Unlearning
- ICLR 2026Evidence for Limited Metacognition in 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.