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 2025SoftShadow: Leveraging Soft Masks for Penumbra-Aware Shadow Removal
- CVPR 2025SOGS: Second-Order Anchor for Advanced 3D Gaussian Splatting
- CVPR 2025Sparse2DGS: Geometry-Prioritized Gaussian Splatting for Surface Reconstruction from Sparse Views
- CVPR 2025SparseAlign: a Fully Sparse Framework for Cooperative Object Detection
- CVPR 2025Spectral State Space Model for Rotation-Invariant Visual Representation Learning
- CVPR 2025SphereUFormer: A U-Shaped Transformer for Spherical 360 Perception
- CVPR 2025Spiking Transformer: Introducing Accurate Addition-Only Spiking Self-Attention for Transformer
- CVPR 2025SplatAD: Real-Time Lidar and Camera Rendering with 3D Gaussian Splatting for Autonomous Driving
- CVPR 2025SplatFlow: Self-Supervised Dynamic Gaussian Splatting in Neural Motion Flow Field for Autonomous Driving
- CVPR 2025Splatter-360: Generalizable 360 Gaussian Splatting for Wide-baseline Panoramic Images
- CVPR 2025Spotting the Unexpected (STU): A 3D LiDAR Dataset for Anomaly Segmentation in Autonomous Driving
- CVPR 2025STAA-SNN: Spatial-Temporal Attention Aggregator for Spiking Neural Networks
- CVPR 2025Stable-SCore: A Stable Registration-based Framework for 3D Shape Correspondence
- CVPR 2025Stacking Brick by Brick: Aligned Feature Isolation for Incremental Face Forgery Detection
- CVPR 2025Structure-Aware Correspondence Learning for Relative Pose Estimation
- CVPR 2025Style Quantization for Data-Efficient GAN Training
- CVPR 2025Subnet-Aware Dynamic Supernet Training for Neural Architecture Search
- CVPR 2025Sufficient Invariant Learning for Distribution Shift
- CVPR 2025SVFR: A Unified Framework for Generalized Video Face Restoration
- CVPR 2025SVG-IR: Spatially-Varying Gaussian Splatting for Inverse Rendering
- CVPR 2025SyncSDE: A Probabilistic Framework for Diffusion Synchronization
- CVPR 2025T-CIL: Temperature Scaling using Adversarial Perturbation for Calibration in Class-Incremental Learning
- CVPR 2025T-FAKE: Synthesizing Thermal Images for Facial Landmarking
- CVPR 2025T2SG: Traffic Topology Scene Graph for Topology Reasoning in Autonomous Driving
- CVPR 2025Temporal Separation with Entropy Regularization for Knowledge Distillation in Spiking Neural Networks
- CVPR 2025TensoFlow: Tensorial Flow-based Sampler for Inverse Rendering
- CVPR 2025Think Small, Act Big: Primitive Prompt Learning for Lifelong Robot Manipulation
- CVPR 2025Three Cars Approaching within 100m! Enhancing Distant Geometry by Tri-Axis Voxel Scanning for Camera-based Semantic Scene Completion
- CVPR 2025Token Cropr: Faster ViTs for Quite a Few Tasks
- CVPR 2025Towards Autonomous Micromobility through Scalable Urban Simulation
- CVPR 2025Towards Explicit Geometry-Reflectance Collaboration for Generalized LiDAR Segmentation in Adverse Weather
- CVPR 2025Tra-MoE: Learning Trajectory Prediction Model from Multiple Domains for Adaptive Policy Conditioning
- CVPR 2025Transfer Your Perspective: Controllable 3D Generation from Any Viewpoint in a Driving Scene
- CVPR 2025Tripartite Weight-Space Ensemble for Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning
- CVPR 2025Tuning the Frequencies: Robust Training for Sinusoidal Neural Networks
- CVPR 2025UIBDiffusion: Universal Imperceptible Backdoor Attack for Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2025Uncertainty Meets Diversity: A Comprehensive Active Learning Framework for Indoor 3D Object Detection
- CVPR 2025Uncertainty Weighted Gradients for Model Calibration
- CVPR 2025Uncertainty-guided Perturbation for Image Super-Resolution Diffusion Model
- CVPR 2025Uncertainty-Instructed Structure Injection for Generalizable HD Map Construction
- CVPR 2025UniGraspTransformer: Simplified Policy Distillation for Scalable Dexterous Robotic Grasping
- CVPR 2025UniPhy: Learning a Unified Constitutive Model for Inverse Physics Simulation
- CVPR 2025UniScene: Unified Occupancy-centric Driving Scene Generation
- CVPR 2025Universal Actions for Enhanced Embodied Foundation Models
- CVPR 2025Unleashing the Potential of Multi-modal Foundation Models and Video Diffusion for 4D Dynamic Physical Scene Simulation
- CVPR 2025UrbanCAD: Towards Highly Controllable and Photorealistic 3D Vehicles for Urban Scene Simulation
- CVPR 2025V2V3D: View-to-View Denoised 3D Reconstruction for Light Field Microscopy
- CVPR 2025VI^3NR: Variance Informed Initialization for Implicit Neural Representations
- CVPR 2025Vid2Sim: Generalizable, Video-based Reconstruction of Appearance, Geometry and Physics for Mesh-free Simulation
- CVPR 2025Vid2Sim: Realistic and Interactive Simulation from Video for Urban Navigation
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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.