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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- NeurIPS 2025MigGPT: Harnessing Large Language Models for Automated Migration of Out-of-Tree Linux Kernel Patches Across Versions
- NeurIPS 2025Minimum Width for Deep, Narrow MLP: A Diffeomorphism Approach
- NeurIPS 2025Mixture of Noise for Pre-Trained Model-Based Class-Incremental Learning
- NeurIPS 2025Mixture-of-Experts Operator Transformer for Large-Scale PDE Pre-Training
- NeurIPS 2025Mixture-of-Recursions: Learning Dynamic Recursive Depths for Adaptive Token-Level Computation
- NeurIPS 2025ML4CO-Bench-101: Benchmark Machine Learning for Classic Combinatorial Problems on Graphs
- NeurIPS 2025MLLM-ISU: The First-Ever Comprehensive Benchmark for Multimodal Large Language Models based Intrusion Scene Understanding
- NeurIPS 2025Model Provenance Testing for Large Language Models
- NeurIPS 2025Model-Based Policy Adaptation for Closed-Loop End-to-end Autonomous Driving
- NeurIPS 2025ModHiFi: Identifying High Fidelity predictive components for Model Modification
- NeurIPS 2025Multiclass Loss Geometry Matters for Generalization of Gradient Descent in Separable Classification
- NeurIPS 2025Multilevel neural simulation-based inference
- NeurIPS 2025MultiScale Contextual Bandits for Long Term Objectives
- NeurIPS 2025MUniverse: A Simulation and Benchmarking Suite for Motor Unit Decomposition
- NeurIPS 2025MUSTAFAR: Promoting Unstructured Sparsity for KV Cache Pruning in LLM Inference
- NeurIPS 2025MutualVPR: A Mutual Learning Framework for Resolving Supervision Inconsistencies via Adaptive Clustering
- NeurIPS 2025NaDRO: Leveraging Dual-Reward Strategies for LLMs Training on Noisy Data
- NeurIPS 2025Natural Gradient VI: Guarantees for Non-Conjugate Models
- NeurIPS 2025Near-Exponential Savings for Population Mean Estimation with Active Learning
- NeurIPS 2025Near-Optimal Regret-Queue Length Tradeoff in Online Learning for Two-Sided Markets
- NeurIPS 2025Near-Optimal Sample Complexity for Online Constrained MDPs
- NeurIPS 2025NegoCollab: A Common Representation Negotiation Approach for Heterogeneous Collaborative Perception
- NeurIPS 2025Nemotron-CLIMB: Clustering-based Iterative Data Mixture Bootstrapping for Language Model Pre-training
- NeurIPS 2025NestedFP: High-Performance, Memory-Efficient Dual-Precision Floating Point Support for LLMs
- NeurIPS 2025Network two-sample test for block models
- NeurIPS 2025Neural Collapse in Cumulative Link Models for Ordinal Regression: An Analysis with Unconstrained Feature Model
- NeurIPS 2025Neural Collapse under Gradient Flow on Shallow ReLU Networks for Orthogonally Separable Data
- NeurIPS 2025Neural Emulator Superiority: When Machine Learning for PDEs Surpasses its Training Data
- NeurIPS 2025Neural Evolution Strategy for Black-box Pareto Set Learning
- NeurIPS 2025Neural Green’s Functions
- NeurIPS 2025Neural MJD: Neural Non-Stationary Merton Jump Diffusion for Time Series Prediction
- NeurIPS 2025Neural Tangent Knowledge Distillation for Optical Convolutional Networks
- NeurIPS 2025NFL-BA: Near-Field Light Bundle Adjustment for SLAM in Dynamic Lighting
- NeurIPS 2025Noise Consistency Training: A Native Approach for One-step Generator in Learning Additional Controls
- NeurIPS 2025Non-Asymptotic Analysis Of Data Augmentation For Precision Matrix Estimation
- NeurIPS 2025Non-Asymptotic Guarantees for Average-Reward Q-Learning with Adaptive Stepsizes
- NeurIPS 2025Non-Singularity of the Gradient Descent Map for Neural Networks with Piecewise Analytic Activations
- NeurIPS 2025Non-stationary Equivariant Graph Neural Networks for Physical Dynamics Simulation
- NeurIPS 2025Normalized Attention Guidance: Universal Negative Guidance for Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2025NS-Gym: A Comprehensive and Open-Source Simulation Framework for Non-Stationary Markov Decision Processes
- NeurIPS 2025NSNQuant: A Double Normalization Approach for Calibration-Free Low-Bit Vector Quantization of KV Cache
- NeurIPS 2025Nyström-Accelerated Primal LS-SVMs: Breaking the $O(an^3)$ Complexity Bottleneck for Scalable ODEs Learning
- NeurIPS 2025OCN: Effectively Utilizing Higher-Order Common Neighbors for Better Link Prediction
- NeurIPS 2025Offline Actor-Critic for Average Reward MDPs
- NeurIPS 2025On Evaluating Policies for Robust POMDPs
- NeurIPS 2025On the Closed-Form of Flow Matching: Generalization Does Not Arise from Target Stochasticity
- NeurIPS 2025On the Expressive Power of Mixture-of-Experts for Structured Complex Tasks
- NeurIPS 2025On the Robustness of Transformers against Context Hijacking for Linear Classification
- NeurIPS 2025On the SAC-BL Algorithm for Anomaly Detection
- NeurIPS 2025On topological descriptors for graph products
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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.