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
1,308 papers, page 7 of 27
- CVPR 2024Specularity Factorization for Low-Light Enhancement
- CVPR 2024Spin-UP: Spin Light for Natural Light Uncalibrated Photometric Stereo
- CVPR 2024SplaTAM: Splat Track & Map 3D Gaussians for Dense RGB-D SLAM
- CVPR 2024SPOT: Self-Training with Patch-Order Permutation for Object-Centric Learning with Autoregressive Transformers
- CVPR 2024StableVITON: Learning Semantic Correspondence with Latent Diffusion Model for Virtual Try-On
- CVPR 2024State Space Models for Event Cameras
- CVPR 2024Steerers: A Framework for Rotation Equivariant Keypoint Descriptors
- CVPR 2024Structure Matters: Tackling the Semantic Discrepancy in Diffusion Models for Image Inpainting
- CVPR 2024Style Injection in Diffusion: A Training-free Approach for Adapting Large-scale Diffusion Models for Style Transfer
- CVPR 2024SUGAR: Pre-training 3D Visual Representations for Robotics
- CVPR 2024SyncTalk: The Devil is in the Synchronization for Talking Head Synthesis
- CVPR 2024SynFog: A Photo-realistic Synthetic Fog Dataset based on End-to-end Imaging Simulation for Advancing Real-World Defogging in Autonomous Driving
- CVPR 2024Taming Self-Training for Open-Vocabulary Object Detection
- CVPR 2024TCP:Textual-based Class-aware Prompt tuning for Visual-Language Model
- CVPR 2024Test-Time Domain Generalization for Face Anti-Spoofing
- CVPR 2024TetraSphere: A Neural Descriptor for O(3)-Invariant Point Cloud Analysis
- CVPR 2024Text Grouping Adapter: Adapting Pre-trained Text Detector for Layout Analysis
- CVPR 2024Text-Enhanced Data-free Approach for Federated Class-Incremental Learning
- CVPR 2024Text-Image Alignment for Diffusion-Based Perception
- CVPR 2024TexTile: A Differentiable Metric for Texture Tileability
- CVPR 2024Texture-Preserving Diffusion Models for High-Fidelity Virtual Try-On
- CVPR 2024TFMQ-DM: Temporal Feature Maintenance Quantization for Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024The Manga Whisperer: Automatically Generating Transcriptions for Comics
- CVPR 2024The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Pre-Trained Features for Camera Pose Refinement
- CVPR 2024Three Pillars Improving Vision Foundation Model Distillation for Lidar
- CVPR 2024ToonerGAN: Reinforcing GANs for Obfuscating Automated Facial Indexing
- CVPR 2024Towards Accurate Post-training Quantization for Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024Towards Learning a Generalist Model for Embodied Navigation
- CVPR 2024Towards Robust Learning to Optimize with Theoretical Guarantees
- CVPR 2024Transcending Forgery Specificity with Latent Space Augmentation for Generalizable Deepfake Detection
- CVPR 2024Tri-Perspective View Decomposition for Geometry-Aware Depth Completion
- CVPR 2024TULIP: Transformer for Upsampling of LiDAR Point Clouds
- CVPR 2024Turb-Seg-Res: A Segment-then-Restore Pipeline for Dynamic Videos with Atmospheric Turbulence
- CVPR 2024UFC-Net: Unrolling Fixed-point Continuous Network for Deep Compressive Sensing
- CVPR 2024Unbiased Estimator for Distorted Conics in Camera Calibration
- CVPR 2024Uncertainty-aware Action Decoupling Transformer for Action Anticipation
- CVPR 2024UniPAD: A Universal Pre-training Paradigm for Autonomous Driving
- CVPR 2024UniPTS: A Unified Framework for Proficient Post-Training Sparsity
- CVPR 2024Unleashing Channel Potential: Space-Frequency Selection Convolution for SAR Object Detection
- CVPR 2024Unleashing Network Potentials for Semantic Scene Completion
- CVPR 2024Unleashing Unlabeled Data: A Paradigm for Cross-View Geo-Localization
- CVPR 2024UnScene3D: Unsupervised 3D Instance Segmentation for Indoor Scenes
- CVPR 2024Unsigned Orthogonal Distance Fields: An Accurate Neural Implicit Representation for Diverse 3D Shapes
- CVPR 2024Unsupervised Deep Unrolling Networks for Phase Unwrapping
- CVPR 2024Vanishing-Point-Guided Video Semantic Segmentation of Driving Scenes
- CVPR 2024VastGaussian: Vast 3D Gaussians for Large Scene Reconstruction
- CVPR 2024vid-TLDR: Training Free Token Merging for Light-weight Video Transformer
- CVPR 2024View-decoupled Transformer for Person Re-identification under Aerial-ground Camera Network
- CVPR 2024Virtual Immunohistochemistry Staining for Histological Images Assisted by Weakly-supervised Learning
- CVPR 2024Visual Point Cloud Forecasting enables Scalable Autonomous Driving
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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.