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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- CVPR 2025Closest Neighbors are Harmful for Lightweight Masked Auto-encoders
- CVPR 2025CoCoGaussian: Leveraging Circle of Confusion for Gaussian Splatting from Defocused Images
- CVPR 2025Coeff-Tuning: A Graph Filter Subspace View for Tuning Attention-Based Large Models
- CVPR 2025ComfyBench: Benchmarking LLM-based Agents in ComfyUI for Autonomously Designing Collaborative AI Systems
- CVPR 2025Consistency-aware Self-Training for Iterative-based Stereo Matching
- CVPR 2025ControlFace: Harnessing Facial Parametric Control for Face Rigging
- CVPR 2025Convex Relaxation for Robust Vanishing Point Estimation in Manhattan World
- CVPR 2025Curriculum Coarse-to-Fine Selection for High-IPC Dataset Distillation
- CVPR 2025D^3CTTA: Domain-Dependent Decorrelation for Continual Test-Time Adaption of 3D LiDAR Segmentation
- CVPR 2025Data Distributional Properties As Inductive Bias for Systematic Generalization
- CVPR 2025DEAL: Data-Efficient Adversarial Learning for High-Quality Infrared Imaging
- CVPR 2025Decentralized Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2025Decision SpikeFormer: Spike-Driven Transformer for Decision Making
- CVPR 2025DecoupledGaussian: Object-Scene Decoupling for Physics-Based Interaction
- CVPR 2025DeDe: Detecting Backdoor Samples for SSL Encoders via Decoders
- CVPR 2025DEIM: DETR with Improved Matching for Fast Convergence
- CVPR 2025DELT: A Simple Diversity-driven EarlyLate Training for Dataset Distillation
- CVPR 2025Denoising Functional Maps: Diffusion Models for Shape Correspondence
- CVPR 2025Dense Dispersed Structured Light for Hyperspectral 3D Imaging of Dynamic Scenes
- CVPR 2025Dense Match Summarization for Faster Two-view Estimation
- CVPR 2025Depth-Guided Bundle Sampling for Efficient Generalizable Neural Radiance Field Reconstruction
- CVPR 2025DepthCrafter: Generating Consistent Long Depth Sequences for Open-world Videos
- CVPR 2025Derivative-Free Diffusion Manifold-Constrained Gradient for Unified XAI
- CVPR 2025Descriptor-In-Pixel : Point-Feature Tracking For Pixel Processor Arrays
- CVPR 2025DeSiRe-GS: 4D Street Gaussians for Static-Dynamic Decomposition and Surface Reconstruction for Urban Driving Scenes
- CVPR 2025DeSplat: Decomposed Gaussian Splatting for Distractor-Free Rendering
- CVPR 2025Detail-Preserving Latent Diffusion for Stable Shadow Removal
- CVPR 2025Detection-Friendly Nonuniformity Correction: A Union Framework for Infrared UAV Target Detection
- CVPR 2025DIFFER: Disentangling Identity Features via Semantic Cues for Clothes-Changing Person Re-ID
- CVPR 2025DiffusionDrive: Truncated Diffusion Model for End-to-End Autonomous Driving
- CVPR 2025DifIISR: A Diffusion Model with Gradient Guidance for Infrared Image Super-Resolution
- CVPR 2025DiN: Diffusion Model for Robust Medical VQA with Semantic Noisy Labels
- CVPR 2025Directional Label Diffusion Model for Learning from Noisy Labels
- CVPR 2025Distilling Monocular Foundation Model for Fine-grained Depth Completion
- CVPR 2025Distilling Multi-modal Large Language Models for Autonomous Driving
- CVPR 2025Distraction is All You Need for Multimodal Large Language Model Jailbreaking
- CVPR 2025DivPrune: Diversity-based Visual Token Pruning for Large Multimodal Models
- CVPR 2025DKC: Differentiated Knowledge Consolidation for Cloth-Hybrid Lifelong Person Re-identification
- CVPR 2025DKDM: Data-Free Knowledge Distillation for Diffusion Models with Any Architecture
- CVPR 2025DL2G: Degradation-guided Local-to-Global Restoration for Eyeglass Reflection Removal
- CVPR 2025Do We Always Need the Simplicity Bias? Looking for Optimal Inductive Biases in the Wild
- CVPR 2025DoF-Gaussian: Controllable Depth-of-Field for 3D Gaussian Splatting
- CVPR 2025Don't Shake the Wheel: Momentum-Aware Planning in End-to-End Autonomous Driving
- CVPR 2025DPU: Dynamic Prototype Updating for Multimodal Out-of-Distribution Detection
- CVPR 2025DriveDreamer4D: World Models Are Effective Data Machines for 4D Driving Scene Representation
- CVPR 2025DriveGPT4-V2: Harnessing Large Language Model Capabilities for Enhanced Closed-Loop Autonomous Driving
- CVPR 2025DriveScape: High-Resolution Driving Video Generation by Multi-View Feature Fusion
- CVPR 2025Driving by the Rules: A Benchmark for Integrating Traffic Sign Regulations into Vectorized HD Map
- CVPR 2025DrivingSphere: Building a High-fidelity 4D World for Closed-loop Simulation
- CVPR 2025DroneSplat: 3D Gaussian Splatting for Robust 3D Reconstruction from In-the-Wild Drone Imagery
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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.