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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- CVPR 2025Prompting Depth Anything for 4K Resolution Accurate Metric Depth Estimation
- CVPR 2025Pseudo Visible Feature Fine-Grained Fusion for Thermal Object Detection
- CVPR 2025PTDiffusion: Free Lunch for Generating Optical Illusion Hidden Pictures with Phase-Transferred Diffusion Model
- CVPR 2025PUP 3D-GS: Principled Uncertainty Pruning for 3D Gaussian Splatting
- CVPR 2025PURA: Parameter Update-Recovery Test-Time Adaption for RGB-T Tracking
- CVPR 2025PyTorchGeoNodes: Enabling Differentiable Shape Programs for 3D Shape Reconstruction
- CVPR 2025Q-DiT: Accurate Post-Training Quantization for Diffusion Transformers
- CVPR 2025Quaffure: Real-Time Quasi-Static Neural Hair Simulation
- CVPR 2025R-SCoRe: Revisiting Scene Coordinate Regression for Robust Large-Scale Visual Localization
- CVPR 2025Radio Frequency Ray Tracing with Neural Object Representation for Enhanced RF Modeling
- CVPR 2025Random Conditioning for Diffusion Model Compression with Distillation
- CVPR 2025Random Conditioning with Distillation for Data-Efficient Diffusion Model Compression
- CVPR 2025RASP: Revisiting 3D Anamorphic Art for Shadow-Guided Packing of Irregular Objects
- CVPR 2025RCP-Bench: Benchmarking Robustness for Collaborative Perception Under Diverse Corruptions
- CVPR 2025ReCon: Enhancing True Correspondence Discrimination through Relation Consistency for Robust Noisy Correspondence Learning
- CVPR 2025ReconDreamer: Crafting World Models for Driving Scene Reconstruction via Online Restoration
- CVPR 2025ReDiffDet: Rotation-equivariant Diffusion Model for Oriented Object Detection
- CVPR 2025Reducing Class-wise Confusion for Incremental Learning with Disentangled Manifolds
- CVPR 2025Ref-GS: Directional Factorization for 2D Gaussian Splatting
- CVPR 2025RefPose: Leveraging Reference Geometric Correspondences for Accurate 6D Pose Estimation of Unseen Objects
- CVPR 2025RELOCATE: A Simple Training-Free Baseline for Visual Query Localization Using Region-Based Representations
- CVPR 2025Removing Reflections from RAW Photos
- CVPR 2025Repurposing Pre-trained Video Diffusion Models for Event-based Video Interpolation
- CVPR 2025Rethinking Epistemic and Aleatoric Uncertainty for Active Open-Set Annotation: An Energy-Based Approach
- CVPR 2025Rethinking Lanes and Points in Complex Scenarios for Monocular 3D Lane Detection
- CVPR 2025Retrieving Semantics from the Deep: an RAG Solution for Gesture Synthesis
- CVPR 2025Revealing Key Details to See Differences: A Novel Prototypical Perspective for Skeleton-based Action Recognition
- CVPR 2025Reversible Decoupling Network for Single Image Reflection Removal
- CVPR 2025RL-RC-DoT: A Block-level RL agent for Task-Aware Video Compression
- CVPR 2025RoboBrain: A Unified Brain Model for Robotic Manipulation from Abstract to Concrete
- CVPR 2025RoomPainter: View-Integrated Diffusion for Consistent Indoor Scene Texturing
- CVPR 2025RUBIK: A Structured Benchmark for Image Matching across Geometric Challenges
- CVPR 2025Satellite Observations Guided Diffusion Model for Accurate Meteorological States at Arbitrary Resolution
- CVPR 2025Scenario Dreamer: Vectorized Latent Diffusion for Generating Driving Simulation Environments
- CVPR 2025Scene-agnostic Pose Regression for Visual Localization
- CVPR 2025SceneCrafter: Controllable Multi-View Driving Scene Editing
- CVPR 2025SceneDiffuser++: City-Scale Traffic Simulation via a Generative World Model
- CVPR 2025SDBF: Steep-Decision-Boundary Fingerprinting for Hard-Label Tampering Detection of DNN Models
- CVPR 2025SEC-Prompt:SEmantic Complementary Prompting for Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning
- CVPR 2025Seeing is Not Believing: Adversarial Natural Object Optimization for Hard-Label 3D Scene Attacks
- CVPR 2025Segment This Thing: Foveated Tokenization for Efficient Point-Prompted Segmentation
- CVPR 2025Self-Supervised Learning for Color Spike Camera Reconstruction
- CVPR 2025SET: Spectral Enhancement for Tiny Object Detection
- CVPR 2025SGCR: Spherical Gaussians for Efficient 3D Curve Reconstruction
- CVPR 2025SGFormer: Satellite-Ground Fusion for 3D Semantic Scene Completion
- CVPR 2025SimLingo: Vision-Only Closed-Loop Autonomous Driving with Language-Action Alignment
- CVPR 2025Simulator HC: Regression-based Online Simulation of Starting Problem-Solution Pairs for Homotopy Continuation in Geometric Vision
- CVPR 2025SimVS: Simulating World Inconsistencies for Robust View Synthesis
- CVPR 2025Sketchy Bounding-box Supervision for 3D Instance Segmentation
- CVPR 2025SMTPD: A New Benchmark for Temporal Prediction of Social Media Popularity
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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.