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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- ICML 2026Positional Encoding for Spiking Transformers
- ICML 2026Possibilistic Predictive Uncertainty for Deep Learning
- ICML 2026Posterior Behavioral Cloning: Pretraining BC Policies for Efficient RL Finetuning
- ICML 2026Posterior Mismatch Matters: Adversarial Training for Long-Tailed Robustness
- ICML 2026PRISM: Distribution-free Adaptive Computation of Matrix Functions for Accelerating Neural Network Training
- ICML 2026PRISM: Perception Reasoning Interleaved for Sequential Decision Making.
- ICML 2026Probabilistically-routed Bayesian Additive Spanning Trees for Learning on Constrained Domains
- ICML 2026Projection-Free Algorithms for Minimax Problems
- ICML 2026Proteus: Lookup-Free Trellis-Coded Quantization by Lattice-Breaking Compute Codes for 2-Bit LLMs
- ICML 2026Provable Bounds for the Learnability of Sample-Compressible Families from Noisy Samples
- ICML 2026Provable Training Data Identification for Large Language Models
- ICML 2026Provably Data-driven Lagrangian Relaxation for Mixed Integer Linear Programming
- ICML 2026Pseudo-Mallows for Efficient Probabilistic Preference Learning
- ICML 2026QiMeng-PerceptOS: Semantic-Aware Kernel Optimization for OS-Intensive Workloads via Hardware-Software Alignment
- ICML 2026Quantifying the noise sensitivity of the Wasserstein metric for images
- ICML 2026Quantum Algorithms for Triangle Cut Sparsification
- ICML 2026Quantum Robust Inner Minimization for Reinforcement Learning with Quadratic Speed-Up in Query Complexity
- ICML 2026QuantumBoost: A lazy, yet fast, quantum algorithm for learning with weak hypotheses
- ICML 2026RaBitQCache: Rotated Binary Quantization for KVCache in Long Context LLM Inference
- ICML 2026Ramba: Selective State-Space Models for Relational Deep Learning
- ICML 2026Reinforcement Learning for Reachability: Guaranteeing Asymptotic Optimality
- ICML 2026Representation Learning for Equivariant Inference with Guarantees
- ICML 2026RePro: Training Language Models to Faithfully Recycle the Web for Pretraining
- ICML 2026Rethinking Calibration for Early-Exit Neural Networks
- ICML 2026Rethinking Loss Reweighting for Imbalance Learning as an Inverse Problem: A Neural Collapse Point of View
- ICML 2026Revisiting Distribution Correction Estimation for Offline Imitation Learning with Suboptimal Dataset
- ICML 2026Reward Redistribution for CVaR MDPs using a Bellman Operator on L-infinity
- ICML 2026Riemannian stochastic optimization for sufficient dimension reduction
- ICML 2026Risk-Bounded Distribution Reconstruction: Stable Statistic Calibration for Long-Tailed Recognition
- ICML 2026RL-SPH: Learning to Achieve Feasible Solutions for Integer Linear Programs
- ICML 2026Rooted Absorbed Prefix Trajectory Balance with Submodular Replay for GFlowNet Training
- ICML 2026Rotary Position Encodings for Graphs
- ICML 2026RTPrune: Reading-Twice Inspired Token Pruning for Efficient DeepSeek-OCR Inference
- ICML 2026SafeLab: An Interactive High-Fidelity Benchmark for Embodied Safety in Scientific Robotics
- ICML 2026SAGE-NAS: Synergizing LLM-Based Semantic Agent with Graph-Based Evaluator for Neural Architecture Search
- ICML 2026Sample Complexity Bounds for Robust Mean Estimation with Mean-Shift Contamination
- ICML 2026SC$^{2}$-WM: A Self-Correcting World Model with Closed-Loop Feedback for Vision-and-Language Navigation in Continuous Environments
- ICML 2026ScenePilot: Controllable Boundary-Driven Critical Scenario Generation for Autonomous Driving
- ICML 2026SCORE: A Unified Framework for Overshoot Refund in Online FDR Control
- ICML 2026SD-MoE: Spectral Decomposition for Effective Expert Specialization
- ICML 2026Semi-Supervised Neural Super-Resolution for Mesh-Based Simulations
- ICML 2026SHAP-Guided Kernel Actor-Critic for Explainable Reinforcement Learning
- ICML 2026Shapley Neuron Values for Continual Learning: Which Neurons Matter Most?
- ICML 2026Sharp Concentration Bounds for Bundle-Valued Statistics on Manifolds
- ICML 2026Sharp Empirical Bernstein Inequalities for the Variance of Bounded Random Variables
- ICML 2026Shortcut-Resistant CAM Distillation for Long-Tailed Recognition
- ICML 2026Should I Have Expressed a Different Intent? Counterfactual Generation for LLM-Based Autonomous Control
- ICML 2026Signature-Informed Transformer for Asset Allocation
- ICML 2026SIKA-GP: Accelerating Gaussian Process Inference with Sparse Inducing Kernel Approximations for Bayesian Deep Learning
- ICML 2026SimulCost: A Cost-Aware Benchmark and Toolkit for Automating Physics Simulations with LLMs
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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.