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 2026Expert Divergence Learning for MoE-based Language Models
- ICLR 2026Exploring State-Space Models for Data-Specific Neural Representations
- ICLR 2026FACT: a first-principles alternative to the Neural Feature Ansatz for how networks learn representations
- ICLR 2026FACT: Fine-grained Across-variable Convolution for Multivariate Time Series Forecasting
- ICLR 2026Fast Convergence of Natural Gradient Descent for Over-parameterized Physics-Informed Neural Networks
- ICLR 2026FIRE: Frobenius-Isometry Reinitialization for Balancing the Stability–Plasticity Tradeoff
- ICLR 2026Fisher-Rao Sensitivity for Out-of-Distribution Detection in Deep Neural Networks
- ICLR 2026FlashRNN: Unlocking Parallel Training of Nonlinear RNNs for Large Language Models
- ICLR 2026Flatter Tokens are More Valuable for Speculative Draft Model Training
- ICLR 2026FLOWER: A Flow-Matching Solver for Inverse Problems
- ICLR 2026FMIP: Joint Continuous-Integer Flow For Mixed-Integer Linear Programming
- ICLR 2026Forge: Compiling a Unified Abstraction into Scalable Kernels for Linear Attention
- ICLR 2026From atom to space: A region-based readout function for spatial properties of materials
- ICLR 2026FROST: Filtering Reasoning Outliers with Attention for Efficient Reasoning
- ICLR 2026Getting Your LLMs Ready for Reinforcement Learning with Lightweight SFT
- ICLR 2026GRACE: A Language Model Framework for Explainable Inverse Reinforcement Learning
- ICLR 2026Gradient-Aligned Calibration for Post-Training Quantization of Diffusion Models
- ICLR 2026GradPCA: Leveraging NTK Alignment for Reliable Out-of-Distribution Detection
- ICLR 2026H$^3$DP: Triply‑Hierarchical Diffusion Policy for Visuomotor Learning
- ICLR 2026Hallucination Reduction with CASAL: Contrastive Activation Steering for Amortized Learning
- ICLR 2026Hierarchy Decoding: A Training-free Parallel Decoding Strategy for Diffusion Large Language Models
- ICLR 2026High-Dimensional Analysis of Single-Layer Attention for Sparse-Token Classification
- ICLR 2026High-dimensional Mean-Field Games by Particle-based Flow Matching
- ICLR 2026High-Probability Bounds for the Last Iterate of Clipped SGD
- ICLR 2026HippoTune: A Hippocampal Associative Loop–Inspired Fine-Tuning Method for Continual Learning
- ICLR 2026Holdout-Loss-Based Data Selection for LLM Finetuning via In-Context Learning
- ICLR 2026HOTA: Hamiltonian framework for Optimal Transport Advection
- ICLR 2026IceCache: Memory-Efficient KV-cache Management for Long-Sequence LLMs
- ICLR 2026IDER: IDEMPOTENT EXPERIENCE REPLAY FOR RELIABLE CONTINUAL LEARNING
- ICLR 2026Implicit Sensing for Fourier Sparse Boolean Functions
- ICLR 2026Improving Online-to-Nonconvex Conversion for Smooth Optimization via Double Optimism
- ICLR 2026In Good GRACES: Principled Teacher Selection for Knowledge Distillation
- ICLR 2026In-Context Compositional Q-Learning for Offline Reinforcement Learning
- ICLR 2026InfGen: Scenario Generation as Next Token Group Prediction
- ICLR 2026Initialization Schemes for Kolmogorov–Arnold Networks: An Empirical Study
- ICLR 2026Invisible Safety Threat: Malicious Finetuning for LLM via Steganography
- ICLR 2026It's All Just Vectorization: einx, a Universal Notation for Tensor Operations
- ICLR 2026Iterative Distillation for Reward-Guided Fine-Tuning of Diffusion Models in Biomolecular Design
- ICLR 2026Jailbreaking the Matrix: Nullspace Steering for Controlled Model Subversion
- ICLR 2026Joint Selection for Large-Scale Pre-Training Data via Policy Gradient-based Mask Learning
- ICLR 2026Journey to the Centre of Cluster: Harnessing Interior Nodes for A/B Testing under Network Interference
- ICLR 2026KLAS: Using Similarity to Stitch Neural Networks for an Improved Accuracy-Efficiency Tradeoff
- ICLR 2026KV-Cache Transform Coding for Compact Storage in LLM Inference
- ICLR 2026LAMDA: A Longitudinal Android Malware Benchmark for Concept Drift Analysis
- ICLR 2026Latent Veracity Inference for Identifying Errors in Stepwise Reasoning
- ICLR 2026Layerwise Federated Learning for Heterogeneous Quantum Clients using Quorus
- ICLR 2026LD-EnSF: Synergizing Latent Dynamics with Ensemble Score Filters for Fast Data Assimilation with Sparse Observations
- ICLR 2026LD-MoLE: Learnable Dynamic Routing for Mixture of LoRA Experts
- ICLR 2026Lean Finder: Semantic Search for Mathlib That Understands User Intents
- ICLR 2026LEAP: Local ECT-Based Learnable Positional Encodings for Graphs
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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.