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
1,405 papers, page 27 of 29
- NeurIPS 2025Semantic-guided Diverse Decoding for Large Language Model
- NeurIPS 2025SGN: Shifted Window-Based Hierarchical Variable Grouping for Multivariate Time Series Classification
- NeurIPS 2025ShapeX: Shapelet-Driven Post Hoc Explanations for Time Series Classification Models
- NeurIPS 2025Shapley-Based Data Valuation for Weighted $k$-Nearest Neighbors
- NeurIPS 2025Sharp Gaussian approximations for Decentralized Federated Learning
- NeurIPS 2025Sharper Convergence Rates for Nonconvex Optimisation via Reduction Mappings
- NeurIPS 2025Simple Distillation for One-Step Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2025SimSort: A Data-Driven Framework for Spike Sorting by Large-Scale Electrophysiology Simulation
- NeurIPS 2025Simulation-Based Inference for Adaptive Experiments
- NeurIPS 2025Sinusoidal Initialization, Time for a New Start
- NeurIPS 2025Small Resamples, Sharp Guarantees: Convergence Rates for Resampled Studentized Quantile Estimators
- NeurIPS 2025Smooth Sailing: Lipschitz-Driven Uncertainty Quantification for Spatial Associations
- NeurIPS 2025SMRS: advocating a unified reporting standard for surrogate models in the artificial intelligence era.
- NeurIPS 2025Soft-consensual Federated Learning for Data Heterogeneity via Multiple Paths
- NeurIPS 2025SonoGym: High Performance Simulation for Challenging Surgical Tasks with Robotic Ultrasound
- NeurIPS 2025SPACE: Noise Contrastive Estimation Stabilizes Self-Play Fine-Tuning for Large Language Models
- NeurIPS 2025Sparse Polyak: an adaptive step size rule for high-dimensional M-estimation
- NeurIPS 2025SparseDiT: Token Sparsification for Efficient Diffusion Transformer
- NeurIPS 2025Spatial Understanding from Videos: Structured Prompts Meet Simulation Data
- NeurIPS 2025SpecEdge: Scalable Edge-Assisted Serving Framework for Interactive LLMs
- NeurIPS 2025Spectral Learning for Infinite-Horizon Average-Reward POMDPs
- NeurIPS 2025SpectraLDS: Provable Distillation for Linear Dynamical Systems
- NeurIPS 2025SpiderSolver: A Geometry-Aware Transformer for Solving PDEs on Complex Geometries
- NeurIPS 2025Spik-NeRF: Spiking Neural Networks for Neural Radiance Fields
- NeurIPS 2025ST$^2$360D: Spatial-to-Temporal Consistency for Training-free 360 Monocular Depth Estimation
- NeurIPS 2025Stable Gradients for Stable Learning at Scale in Deep Reinforcement Learning
- NeurIPS 2025STAR-Bets: Sequential TArget-Recalculating Bets for Tighter Confidence Intervals
- NeurIPS 2025STAR: A Benchmark for Astronomical Star Fields Super-Resolution
- NeurIPS 2025StarTrail: Concentric Ring Sequence Parallelism for Efficient Near-Infinite-Context Transformer Model Training
- NeurIPS 2025State Entropy Regularization for Robust Reinforcement Learning
- NeurIPS 2025State Size Independent Statistical Error Bound for Discrete Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2025State-Covering Trajectory Stitching for Diffusion Planners
- NeurIPS 2025Statistical Analysis of the Sinkhorn Iterations for Two-Sample Schr\"{o}dinger Bridge Estimation
- NeurIPS 2025Statistical Guarantees for High-Dimensional Stochastic Gradient Descent
- NeurIPS 2025Statistical Inference for Gradient Boosting Regression
- NeurIPS 2025Statistical inference for Linear Stochastic Approximation with Markovian Noise
- NeurIPS 2025Statistically Valid Post-Deployment Monitoring Should Be Standard for AI-Based Digital Health
- NeurIPS 2025Stepsize anything: A unified learning rate schedule for budgeted-iteration training
- NeurIPS 2025STRATUS: A Multi-agent System for Autonomous Reliability Engineering of Modern Clouds
- NeurIPS 2025STree: Speculative Tree Decoding for Hybrid State Space Models
- NeurIPS 2025Struct2D: A Perception-Guided Framework for Spatial Reasoning in MLLMs
- NeurIPS 2025STSBench: A Spatio-temporal Scenario Benchmark for Multi-modal Large Language Models in Autonomous Driving
- NeurIPS 2025SVRPBench: A Realistic Benchmark for Stochastic Vehicle Routing Problem
- NeurIPS 2025Switchable Token-Specific Codebook Quantization For Face Image Compression
- NeurIPS 2025SynCL: A Synergistic Training Strategy with Instance-Aware Contrastive Learning for End-to-End Multi-Camera 3D Tracking
- NeurIPS 2025SynTSBench: Rethinking Temporal Pattern Learning in Deep Learning Models for Time Series
- NeurIPS 2025T-norm Selection for Object Detection in Autonomous Driving with Logical Constraints
- NeurIPS 2025T-SHIRT: Token-Selective Hierarchical Data Selection for Instruction Tuning
- NeurIPS 2025Table as a Modality for Large Language Models
- NeurIPS 2025Tail-Optimized Caching for LLM Inference
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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.