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 2026Bench-MFG: A Benchmark Suite for Learning in Stationary Mean Field Games
- NeurIPS 2026Benchmark for Assessing Olfactory Perception of Large Language Models
- NeurIPS 2026Benchmarking Compositional Generalisation for Machine Learning Interatomic Potentials
- NeurIPS 2026Benchmarking Optimizers for Large Language Model Pretraining
- NeurIPS 2026BESS-Bench: Benchmarking Spectral Representations for Be-Star Variability
- NeurIPS 2026Best Arm Identification for Bandits with Shifting Means
- NeurIPS 2026Best-of-$N$ Guidance for Test-time Diffusion Alignment
- NeurIPS 2026Better Source, Better Flow: Learning Condition-Dependent Source Distribution for Flow Matching
- NeurIPS 2026Beyond Chamfer Distance: Granular Order-aware Evaluation Metric For Online Mapping
- NeurIPS 2026Beyond Family Labels: A Taxonomic Ornstein-Uhlenbeck Prior for Avian 3D Shape Recovery
- NeurIPS 2026Beyond Flat Gossip: Tiered Gossip Learning for Scalable Collaborative AI
- NeurIPS 2026Beyond Linear Activation Steering: Invertible Latent Transformations for Controlling LLM Behavior
- NeurIPS 2026Beyond Linear Decoders: Dynamic Expert-Coupled Optimal Decoding for Time Series Forecasting
- NeurIPS 2026Beyond Masked Sparsity: SNACK Enables Truly Sparse Neural Networks on GPU
- NeurIPS 2026Beyond Maximum Likelihood: Variational Inequality Estimation for Generalized Linear Models
- NeurIPS 2026Beyond Modality Fusion: Deep Ensembles for Multimodal Classification
- NeurIPS 2026Beyond MSE: Differentiable Complexity Priors for Structure-Preserving Neural Denoising
- NeurIPS 2026Beyond Parameter Arithmetic: Sparse Complementary Fusion for Distribution-Aware Model Merging
- NeurIPS 2026Beyond Pixel-wise Supervision: Local Structure Regularization for Semantic Segmentation
- NeurIPS 2026Beyond Raw Observations: Distilling and Storing Invariant Driving Memories for Generalizable Autonomous Driving
- NeurIPS 2026Beyond Scalar Distances: Semantic Attribute Gradients from Frozen MLLMs for Visual Embeddings
- NeurIPS 2026Beyond Steering Vector: Flow-based Activation Steering for Inference-Time Intervention
- NeurIPS 2026Beyond the Grid: Continuous Dictionary Pursuit for Interpretable Signal Decomposition
- NeurIPS 2026BiHashFormer: Hash-Driven Dual-Branch Transformer for Efficient Object Detection in HRW Shots
- NeurIPS 2026Bits Beat Tokens: A Regret Rate Distortion Theory for Large Language Model Agents
- NeurIPS 2026Black-Box Followers, White-Box Leaders: Partial Zeroth-Order Methods for MPECs
- NeurIPS 2026BLADE: Scalable Bi-level Adaptive Data Selection for LLM Training
- NeurIPS 2026BlenderFORGE: Framework for Optimizing Reactive 3D-Graphics Editing Ability of MLLMs
- NeurIPS 2026Block Optimism for Nonstationary Bandits with Latent Linear Dynamics
- NeurIPS 2026Block-OBS-GS: Exact Per-Block Joint Brain Surgery with Gauss–Seidel Refinement for LLM Pruning
- NeurIPS 2026BMAttn: Block-Aligned Mixed-Precision Attention Quantization for LLM Inference
- NeurIPS 2026BO-Arena: An Evolving Benchmark for High-Dimensional Bayesian Optimisation
- NeurIPS 2026BOOST: Power-Optimal Strong-FWER Testing for Block-Structured Multiplicity
- NeurIPS 2026Bootstrapped Bipartite Actor-Critic for Diffusion RL
- NeurIPS 2026Boundary Mass in Feature Space as a Label-Budget Diagnostic for Representations
- NeurIPS 2026Breaking the Synthesis Barrier for AI-Designed DNA Libraries
- NeurIPS 2026BReD: Block Replay Dithering for Stable Low-Bit EMA Optimizer States
- NeurIPS 2026Brenier Meets Adversarial Training: Optimal Transport Geometry for Robust Learning
- NeurIPS 2026Bricker to BRACE: A Bracket Exposure RAW Dataset and Restoration Model for Flicker-Banding
- NeurIPS 2026BridgeTwist: Twisting Schrödinger Bridges for Training-Free Conditional Sampling
- NeurIPS 2026Bridging Simulation and Reality: Geometry and Decision Alignment for Autonomous Driving
- NeurIPS 2026Bridging the Gap: Position-Independent Cache Reuse for Hybrid SSM-Attention Architectures
- NeurIPS 2026Bridging the Simulation-to-Experiment Gap with Adversarial Distribution Alignment
- NeurIPS 2026BROS: Bias-Corrected Randomized Subspaces for Memory-Efficient Single-Loop Bilevel Optimization
- NeurIPS 2026Building Transformation Layers for Riemannian Neural Networks
- NeurIPS 2026BuresTomFlow: Bures-Geometric Flow Matching for Posterior Quantum Tomography
- NeurIPS 2026Can Hybrid-Parallel Planning Support Alternating Model–Strategy Design? Dependency-Keyed Per-Layer Primitives for Re-Planning
- NeurIPS 2026Can VLMs Reason When to Stop for Human Safety?
- NeurIPS 2026Can We Trust Item Response Theory for AI Evaluation?
- NeurIPS 2026CAPER: Clause-Aligned Process Supervision for Text-to-SQL
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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.