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
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- NeurIPS 2026Mirror descent actor-critic methods for entropy regularised MDPs in general spaces: stability and convergence
- NeurIPS 2026Mirror Descent-Ascent for mean-field min-max problems
- NeurIPS 2026MixRoute: Rethinking Single-Distribution Training for Generalizable Neural Routing
- NeurIPS 2026ML-assisted Randomization Tests for A/B Experiments
- NeurIPS 2026MLLMs Fail to Refuse when Using Tools Agentically
- NeurIPS 2026MoBiQuant: Mixture-of-Bits Quantization for Token-Adaptive Any-Precision LLM
- NeurIPS 2026Modulating Merging Strengths via Joint Loss Estimation for LoRA-based Continual Learning
- NeurIPS 2026Monoculture Robust Learning
- NeurIPS 2026More Value per Key: Asymmetric Sparse Attention for Faster LLM Decoding
- NeurIPS 2026MorphoHELM: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Evaluating Representations for Microscopy-Based Morphology Assays
- NeurIPS 2026Mosaic: A Benchmark Suite for Differentiable Physics Solvers
- NeurIPS 2026Motion Cues from Image-based Point Tracking for LiDAR Scene Flow Estimation
- NeurIPS 2026MOVEBENCH: A Benchmark for Global-Scale Wildlife Movement Forecasting
- NeurIPS 2026Multiform Attack for Transferable Cross-Modal Person Re-Identification
- NeurIPS 2026Multiscale Microenvironment Vector Space Projection for Uncovering Diverse Pathological Biomarker
- NeurIPS 2026MyoChallenge 2025: A New Benchmark for Human Athletic Intelligence
- NeurIPS 2026NADS: Navigator-Guided Data Selection for Mitigating Catastrophic Forgetting in Fine-Tuning
- NeurIPS 2026NARRA-Gym for Evaluating Interactive Narrative Agents
- NeurIPS 2026Near-Linear Time Generalized Sinkhorn Algorithms for Bounded Genus Graphs
- NeurIPS 2026Nearly Optimal Bounds for Orthogonal Trace-Sum Maximization
- NeurIPS 2026Nearly-Optimal Algorithm for Adversarial Kernelized Bandits
- NeurIPS 2026Necessary but Not Sufficient: Spectral Tests for Value-Linear Attention Surrogates
- NeurIPS 2026NeSyKC: Neurosymbolic Knowledge Compilation For Lifelong Learning Embodied Agents
- NeurIPS 2026Neural Circuit Architectural Priors for Rat Locomotion
- NeurIPS 2026Neural Operator-based Curriculum Learning for Physics-Informed Neural Networks
- NeurIPS 2026NeuralBES: A Differentiable, Control-Aware Emulator for Scalable Building Energy Modeling
- NeurIPS 2026Neuromodulated Constrained Autoencoders for Context-Dependent Manifold Learning
- NeurIPS 2026Neuronal Identity as an Organizational Basis for Analyzing Neural Population Dynamics
- NeurIPS 2026Neurosymbolic Learning for Inference-Time Argumentation
- NeurIPS 2026Neutral-atom quantum features as complementary structural encodings for graph learning
- NeurIPS 2026Never Go Full Batch: Stochastic TMLE for Large-Scale Debiased Inference
- NeurIPS 2026New Coresets for Fair Clustering
- NeurIPS 2026NINJA: A Navigator–Inspector Joint Architecture for Context-Efficient Issue Localization
- NeurIPS 2026NitroBox: Lightning-Fast Sandbox for Large-Scale RL Training
- NeurIPS 2026NNCoxKL: Risk-Set Distillation from Probability-Free Prognostic Teachers for Deep Cox Models
- NeurIPS 2026No Free Alignment: Observability-Aware Alignment for Multimodal Heterogeneous Learning
- NeurIPS 2026Non-Expanding Gated Continued Fraction Architecture for Feedforward Layers in Language Models
- NeurIPS 2026Non-Linear Pricing Restores Tractability for a Data Seller
- NeurIPS 2026Nonlinear Direct Feedback Alignment for Scalable Backpropagation-Free Training
- NeurIPS 2026Not All Instances Should Contribute Equally: Sparse Support Grounding via Unbalanced Transport for Heterogeneous MIL
- NeurIPS 2026Not All Routing Drift Is Harmful: Trust-Region Projection for Class-Incremental Learning
- NeurIPS 2026NuMuon: Nuclear-Norm-Constrained Muon for Compressible LLM Training
- NeurIPS 2026nuReasoning: A Reasoning-Centric Dataset and Benchmark for Long-Tail Autonomous Driving
- NeurIPS 2026Nüwa.RNA: An RNA Foundation Model for Unified Representation with Deep Structure Infusion
- NeurIPS 2026Objective-Aligned Amortized Inference for Offline Bayes-Adaptive MDP Model Learning
- NeurIPS 2026Observations Drift, Structures Remain: Structural Pretraining with Time Alignment for Electromagnetic Signals
- NeurIPS 2026OCTOPUS: Optimized KV Cache for Transformers via Octahedral Parametrization Under optimal Squared error quantization
- NeurIPS 2026OdysSim: Building Foundation Models for Human Behavior Simulation
- NeurIPS 2026OgBench: A Framework for Evaluating Graph Neural Networks on Omics Data
- NeurIPS 2026OmniSimulator: Aligning Small Language Models for Authentic Heterogeneous Behavior Modeling
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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.