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 2026Diffusion Masked Pretraining for Dynamic Point Cloud
- NeurIPS 2026Dimension Bounds for Contractive Reservoir Computing from Input Entropy
- NeurIPS 2026Direct Conditional Parameterization for N-Dimensional Splatting
- NeurIPS 2026Disentangled Multimodal Learning for Scalable Dynamic IR-Drop Analysis
- NeurIPS 2026Distilling What Matters: Confidence-Aware Selective Distillation for Large Language Models
- NeurIPS 2026DISTMOE: Rehearsal-free Routing in Mixture-of-Experts for Distributed Instruction Tuning
- NeurIPS 2026Distribution-First Framework for Learning Risk-Sensitive Individualized Treatment Rules
- NeurIPS 2026Distributional Alignment as a Criterion for Designing Task Vectors in In-Context Learning
- NeurIPS 2026Diverse Representative Rashomon Sets for Sparse Generalized Additive Models
- NeurIPS 2026DiversePlace: Diversity-Seeking Curriculum Reinforcement Learning for Macro Placement
- NeurIPS 2026Diversity Maximization: Algorithms for Distant $k$-Subsets
- NeurIPS 2026DMax: Aggressive Parallel Decoding for dLLMs
- NeurIPS 2026DoFP-Aligned Lookup Tables for Real-Time Polarization Demosaicking
- NeurIPS 2026Don’t Learn What You Can Compute: Arithmetic Residual Blocks for Exact Arithmetic in Transformers
- NeurIPS 2026Don't Waste Population: Post-Anneal Refinement for Combinatorial Optimization
- NeurIPS 2026DORA: A Scalable Asynchronous Reinforcement Learning System for Language Model Training
- NeurIPS 2026DPA: Decentralized Primal Averaging with Quasi-Global Momentum for Highly Heterogeneous Data
- NeurIPS 2026DriveFuture: Future-Aware Latent World Models for Autonomous Driving
- NeurIPS 2026DriveMind: Mind-Evolving Belief Tracking for Closed-Loop Autonomous Driving
- NeurIPS 2026DriveSpatial: A Benchmark for Spatiotemporal Intelligence in VLMs for Autonomous Driving
- NeurIPS 2026Driving on Memory
- NeurIPS 2026Driving Video Retrieval for Complex Queries with Structured Grounding
- NeurIPS 2026DropKV: Decoupling Residual-Output Perturbation for Near-Optimal KV-Cache Eviction
- NeurIPS 2026DSSA: Dynamic Sparse Semantic Anchoring for Purifying Protective Perturbations against Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2026DualSAT: A Dual-Branch GNN-Transformer Framework for SAT Solving
- NeurIPS 2026DUDS: Dual-stage Data Selection for Efficient Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards
- NeurIPS 2026DUIL: Deep Unsupervised Inverse Learning for in situ Macromolecular Morphology Identification
- NeurIPS 2026DynaCell: an Evaluation Framework for Dynamic 3D Virtual Staining of Live Cells
- NeurIPS 2026DynamAuction: a reinforcement learning environment for repeated auction with dynamic value
- NeurIPS 2026Dynamic Quadtree Tokenization for Autoregressive PDE Forecasting
- NeurIPS 2026Dynamic Query as Budgeting for Tiny Object Detection
- NeurIPS 2026Dynamical Adapter Fusion: Constructing A Global Adapter for Pre-Trained Model-based Class-Incremental Learning
- NeurIPS 2026DynEdit: Dynamic Entropy-Guided Sequential Editing for Large Language Models
- NeurIPS 2026DyRA: Dynamic Residual Approximation for Efficient Matrix Multiplication in DNNs
- NeurIPS 2026ECHO: Terminal Agents Learn World Models for Free
- NeurIPS 2026Echoes of Error: Residual-Directional Local Rollout Consistency for Timeseries Forecasting
- NeurIPS 2026Edge of Stochastic Stability: Revisiting the Edge of Stability for SGD
- NeurIPS 2026Edit the Bits, Diff the Codes: Bitwise Residual Editing for Visual Autoregressive Models
- NeurIPS 2026EEG Benchmarking Needs a Task Specification Layer: NeuroDoc for Rulebook-Guided, Executable Benchmark Construction
- NeurIPS 2026Efficient Algorithms for Distributed Saddle Problems
- NeurIPS 2026Efficient Algorithms For Fully Dynamic Bipartite Matching In Metric Spaces
- NeurIPS 2026Efficient Decoder Scaling Strategy for Constructive Neural Routing Solvers
- NeurIPS 2026Efficient Memory Crystallization for Graph Learning under Non-Stationary Distribution Shifts
- NeurIPS 2026EgoBench: An Interactive Egocentric Multimodal Benchmark for Tool-Using Agents
- NeurIPS 2026EgoSurgHands: An Egocentric 3D Hand Pose Dataset & Benchmark for Open-Surgery Training
- NeurIPS 2026EHRNote-ChatQA: A Benchmark for Evidence-Grounded Multi-Turn Clinical Question Answering over Longitudinal Discharge Summaries
- NeurIPS 2026EM-NeSy: Expectation Maximization for Neurosymbolic Learning
- NeurIPS 2026EMA-Nesterov: Stabilizing Nesterov's Lookahead for Accelerated Deep Learning Optimization
- NeurIPS 2026Embedded-Arena: Building Hardware-in-the-Loop Coding Agents to Run AI on Microcontrollers
- NeurIPS 2026EMO: Pretraining Mixture of Experts for Emergent Modularity
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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.