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
542 papers, page 8 of 11
- NeurIPS 2025One Filters All: A Generalist Filter For State Estimation
- NeurIPS 2025OpenAD: Open-World Autonomous Driving Benchmark for 3D Object Detection
- NeurIPS 2025OpenBox: Annotate Any Bounding Boxes in 3D
- NeurIPS 2025OpenHype: Hyperbolic Embeddings for Hierarchical Open-Vocabulary Radiance Fields
- NeurIPS 2025Optimal Adjustment Sets for Nonparametric Estimation of Weighted Controlled Direct Effect
- NeurIPS 2025Optimal Dynamic Regret by Transformers for Non-Stationary Reinforcement Learning
- NeurIPS 2025Optimal Minimum Width for the Universal Approximation of Continuously Differentiable Functions by Deep Narrow MLPs
- NeurIPS 2025Optimal Mistake Bounds for Transductive Online Learning
- NeurIPS 2025Optimal Neural Compressors for the Rate-Distortion-Perception Tradeoff
- NeurIPS 2025Optimal Nuisance Function Tuning for Estimating a Doubly Robust Functional under Proportional Asymptotics
- NeurIPS 2025Optimal Rates for Generalization of Gradient Descent for Deep ReLU Classification
- NeurIPS 2025Orientation-anchored Hyper-Gaussian for 4D Reconstruction from Casual Videos
- NeurIPS 2025Pairwise Optimal Transports for Training All-to-All Flow-Based Condition Transfer Model
- NeurIPS 2025Parallel Scaling Law for Language Models
- NeurIPS 2025Parameter-Free Hypergraph Neural Network for Few-Shot Node Classification
- NeurIPS 2025Parsimonious Predictions for Strategyproof Scheduling
- NeurIPS 2025PASS: Path-selective State Space Model for Event-based Recognition
- NeurIPS 2025PatientSim: A Persona-Driven Simulator for Realistic Doctor-Patient Interactions
- NeurIPS 2025Performative Risk Control: Calibrating Models for Reliable Deployment under Performativity
- NeurIPS 2025PermLLM: Learnable Channel Permutation for N:M Sparse Large Language Models
- NeurIPS 2025PhysDrive: A Multimodal Remote Physiological Measurement Dataset for In-vehicle Driver Monitoring
- NeurIPS 2025PipeFusion: Patch-level Pipeline Parallelism for Diffusion Transformers Inference
- NeurIPS 2025Point or Line? Using Line-based Representation for Panoptic Symbol Spotting in CAD Drawings
- NeurIPS 2025PointTruss: K-Truss for Point Cloud Registration
- NeurIPS 2025Posterior Contraction for Sparse Neural Networks in Besov Spaces with Intrinsic Dimensionality
- NeurIPS 2025Practical Kernel Selection for Kernel-based Conditional Independence Test
- NeurIPS 2025Pretraining a Shared Q-Network for Data-Efficient Offline Reinforcement Learning
- NeurIPS 2025Principled Data Augmentation for Learning to Solve Quadratic Programming Problems
- NeurIPS 2025Principled Model Routing for Unknown Mixtures of Source Domains
- NeurIPS 2025Prioritizing Perception-Guided Self-Supervision: A New Paradigm for Causal Modeling in End-to-End Autonomous Driving
- NeurIPS 2025Procurement Auctions with Predictions: Improved Frugality for Facility Location
- NeurIPS 2025Progress Reward Model for Reinforcement Learning via Large Language Models
- NeurIPS 2025Projection-based Lyapunov method for fully heterogeneous weakly-coupled MDPs
- NeurIPS 2025Prompt Tuning Transformers for Data Memorization
- NeurIPS 2025PseuZO: Pseudo-Zeroth-Order Algorithm for Training Deep Neural Networks
- NeurIPS 2025PSI: A Benchmark for Human Interpretation and Response in Traffic Interactions
- NeurIPS 2025Purity Law for Neural Routing Problem Solvers with Enhanced Generalizability
- NeurIPS 2025Put CASH on Bandits: A Max K-Armed Problem for Automated Machine Learning
- NeurIPS 2025Q-Palette: Fractional-Bit Quantizers Toward Optimal Bit Allocation for Efficient LLM Deployment
- NeurIPS 2025QSCA: Quantization with Self-Compensating Auxiliary for Monocular Depth Estimation
- NeurIPS 2025QuadricFormer: Scene as Superquadrics for 3D Semantic Occupancy Prediction
- NeurIPS 2025QuanDA: Quantile-Based Discriminant Analysis for High-Dimensional Imbalanced Classification
- NeurIPS 2025Quartet: Native FP4 Training Can Be Optimal for Large Language Models
- NeurIPS 2025RAD: Training an End-to-End Driving Policy via Large-Scale 3DGS-based Reinforcement Learning
- NeurIPS 2025Rao-Blackwell Gradient Estimators for Equivariant Denoising Diffusion
- NeurIPS 2025RDD: Retrieval-Based Demonstration Decomposer for Planner Alignment in Long-Horizon Tasks
- NeurIPS 2025Rectified CFG++ for Flow Based Models
- NeurIPS 2025REDOUBT: Duo Safety Validation for Autonomous Vehicle Motion Planning
- NeurIPS 2025Refinement Methods for Distributed Distribution Estimation under $\ell^p$-Losses
- NeurIPS 2025REP: Resource-Efficient Prompting for Rehearsal-Free Continual Learning
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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.