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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- ICLR 2025CL-DiffPhyCon: Closed-loop Diffusion Control of Complex Physical Systems
- ICLR 2025CLoSD: Closing the Loop between Simulation and Diffusion for multi-task character control
- ICLR 2025Closed-Form Merging of Parameter-Efficient Modules for Federated Continual Learning
- ICLR 2025Collaborative Discrete-Continuous Black-Box Prompt Learning for Language Models
- ICLR 2025ComLoRA: A Competitive Learning Approach for Enhancing LoRA
- ICLR 2025Composable Interventions for Language Models
- ICLR 2025Compositional simulation-based inference for time series
- ICLR 2025Computationally Efficient RL under Linear Bellman Completeness for Deterministic Dynamics
- ICLR 2025Convex Formulations for Training Two-Layer ReLU Neural Networks
- ICLR 2025Credal Wrapper of Model Averaging for Uncertainty Estimation in Classification
- ICLR 2025CrossMPT: Cross-attention Message-passing Transformer for Error Correcting Codes
- ICLR 2025DARE the Extreme: Revisiting Delta-Parameter Pruning For Fine-Tuned Models
- ICLR 2025Data Selection via Optimal Control for Language Models
- ICLR 2025DataMan: Data Manager for Pre-training Large Language Models
- ICLR 2025Deconstructing What Makes a Good Optimizer for Autoregressive Language Models
- ICLR 2025Deep Compression Autoencoder for Efficient High-Resolution Diffusion Models
- ICLR 2025Deep Linear Probe Generators for Weight Space Learning
- ICLR 2025Deep Random Features for Scalable Interpolation of Spatiotemporal Data
- ICLR 2025DeepTAGE: Deep Temporal-Aligned Gradient Enhancement for Optimizing Spiking Neural Networks
- ICLR 2025Determine-Then-Ensemble: Necessity of Top-k Union for Large Language Model Ensembling
- ICLR 2025Differentially private learners for heterogeneous treatment effects
- ICLR 2025DiffPuter: Empowering Diffusion Models for Missing Data Imputation
- ICLR 2025Diffusion State-Guided Projected Gradient for Inverse Problems
- ICLR 2025Diffusion-Based Planning for Autonomous Driving with Flexible Guidance
- ICLR 2025DisPose: Disentangling Pose Guidance for Controllable Human Image Animation
- ICLR 2025DistillHGNN: A Knowledge Distillation Approach for High-Speed Hypergraph Neural Networks
- ICLR 2025Distributed Speculative Inference (DSI): Speculation Parallelism for Provably Faster Lossless Language Model Inference
- ICLR 2025Distribution Backtracking Builds A Faster Convergence Trajectory for Diffusion Distillation
- ICLR 2025Distribution-Free Data Uncertainty for Neural Network Regression
- ICLR 2025DOCS: Quantifying Weight Similarity for Deeper Insights into Large Language Models
- ICLR 2025DON’T STOP ME NOW: EMBEDDING BASED SCHEDULING FOR LLMS
- ICLR 2025DriveTransformer: Unified Transformer for Scalable End-to-End Autonomous Driving
- ICLR 2025ECD: A Machine Learning Benchmark for Predicting Enhanced-Precision Electronic Charge Density in Crystalline Inorganic Materials
- ICLR 2025EDiT: A Local-SGD-Based Efficient Distributed Training Method for Large Language Models
- ICLR 2025Equivariant Neural Functional Networks for Transformers
- ICLR 2025Error-quantified Conformal Inference for Time Series
- ICLR 2025Exploiting Hidden Symmetry to Improve Objective Perturbation for DP Linear Learners with a Nonsmooth L1-Norm
- ICLR 2025Feature Responsiveness Scores: Model-Agnostic Explanations for Recourse
- ICLR 2025Fengbo: a Clifford Neural Operator pipeline for 3D PDEs in Computational Fluid Dynamics
- ICLR 2025Fiddler: CPU-GPU Orchestration for Fast Inference of Mixture-of-Experts Models
- ICLR 2025FIG: Flow with Interpolant Guidance for Linear Inverse Problems
- ICLR 2025Free Hunch: Denoiser Covariance Estimation for Diffusion Models Without Extra Costs
- ICLR 2025From Commands to Prompts: LLM-based Semantic File System for AIOS
- ICLR 2025Gap-Dependent Bounds for Q-Learning using Reference-Advantage Decomposition
- ICLR 2025Generalization Bounds for Canonicalization: A Comparative Study with Group Averaging
- ICLR 2025Geometry-Aware Approaches for Balancing Performance and Theoretical Guarantees in Linear Bandits
- ICLR 2025Glad: A Streaming Scene Generator for Autonomous Driving
- ICLR 2025GPUDrive: Data-driven, multi-agent driving simulation at 1 million FPS
- ICLR 2025Group-robust Sample Reweighting for Subpopulation Shifts via Influence Functions
- ICLR 2025Harnessing Diversity for Important Data Selection in Pretraining Large Language Models
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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.