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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- ICML 2025C2IQL: Constraint-Conditioned Implicit Q-learning for Safe Offline Reinforcement Learning
- ICML 2025Cache Me If You Must: Adaptive Key-Value Quantization for Large Language Models
- ICML 2025Can Biologically Plausible Temporal Credit Assignment Rules Match BPTT for Neural Similarity? E-prop as an Example
- ICML 2025Can Classic GNNs Be Strong Baselines for Graph-level Tasks? Simple Architectures Meet Excellence
- ICML 2025Can DBNNs Robust to Environmental Noise for Resource-constrained Scenarios?
- ICML 2025CAT: Contrastive Adversarial Training for Evaluating the Robustness of Protective Perturbations in Latent Diffusion Models
- ICML 2025Channel Normalization for Time Series Channel Identification
- ICML 2025CLARIFY: Contrastive Preference Reinforcement Learning for Untangling Ambiguous Queries
- ICML 2025COKE: Core Kernel for More Efficient Approximation of Kernel Weights in Multiple Kernel Clustering
- ICML 2025CommVQ: Commutative Vector Quantization for KV Cache Compression
- ICML 2025Conformity Score Averaging for Classification
- ICML 2025Constrained Exploitability Descent: An Offline Reinforcement Learning Method for Finding Mixed-Strategy Nash Equilibrium
- ICML 2025ConText: Driving In-context Learning for Text Removal and Segmentation
- ICML 2025Contextual Bandits for Unbounded Context Distributions
- ICML 2025Contrastive Learning with Simplicial Convolutional Networks for Short-Text Classification
- ICML 2025Convergence of Mean-Field Langevin Stochastic Descent-Ascent for Distributional Minimax Optimization
- ICML 2025Cover learning for large-scale topology representation
- ICML 2025Curriculum Learning for Biological Sequence Prediction: The Case of De Novo Peptide Sequencing
- ICML 2025Curvature Enhanced Data Augmentation for Regression
- ICML 2025Curvature-aware Graph Attention for PDEs on Manifolds
- ICML 2025Data-Driven Selection of Instrumental Variables for Additive Nonlinear, Constant Effects Models
- ICML 2025Data-Juicer Sandbox: A Feedback-Driven Suite for Multimodal Data-Model Co-development
- ICML 2025Dataflow-Guided Neuro-Symbolic Language Models for Type Inference
- ICML 2025De-coupled NeuroGF for Shortest Path Distance Approximations on Large Terrain Graphs
- ICML 2025Decoupled SGDA for Games with Intermittent Strategy Communication
- ICML 2025Deep Bayesian Filter for Bayes-Faithful Data Assimilation
- ICML 2025Deep Principal Support Vector Machines for Nonlinear Sufficient Dimension Reduction
- ICML 2025Delay-DSGN: A Dynamic Spiking Graph Neural Network with Delay Mechanisms for Evolving Graph
- ICML 2025Dequantified Diffusion-Schrödinger Bridge for Density Ratio Estimation
- ICML 2025Deterministic Sparse Fourier Transform for Continuous Signals with Frequency Gap
- ICML 2025DexScale: Automating Data Scaling for Sim2Real Generalizable Robot Control
- ICML 2025DiffAdvMAP: Flexible Diffusion-Based Framework for Generating Natural Unrestricted Adversarial Examples
- ICML 2025Differential Coding for Training-Free ANN-to-SNN Conversion
- ICML 2025Dimensionality Reduction on Complex Vector Spaces for Euclidean Distance with Dynamic Weights
- ICML 2025Discovering Global False Negatives On the Fly for Self-supervised Contrastive Learning
- ICML 2025Doubly Protected Estimation for Survival Outcomes Utilizing External Controls for Randomized Clinical Trials
- ICML 2025Doubly Robust Fusion of Many Treatments for Policy Learning
- ICML 2025DriveGPT: Scaling Autoregressive Behavior Models for Driving
- ICML 2025Efficient Diffusion Models for Symmetric Manifolds
- ICML 2025ENAHPool: The Edge-Node Attention-based Hierarchical Pooling for Graph Neural Networks
- ICML 2025Enforcing Latent Euclidean Geometry in Single-Cell VAEs for Manifold Interpolation
- ICML 2025EnsLoss: Stochastic Calibrated Loss Ensembles for Preventing Overfitting in Classification
- ICML 2025EPIC: Efficient Position-Independent Caching for Serving Large Language Models
- ICML 2025EvoMesh: Adaptive Physical Simulation with Hierarchical Graph Evolutions
- ICML 2025Exogenous Isomorphism for Counterfactual Identifiability
- ICML 2025Explicit Exploration for High-Welfare Equilibria in Game-Theoretic Multiagent Reinforcement Learning
- ICML 2025Expressive Power of Graph Neural Networks for (Mixed-Integer) Quadratic Programs
- ICML 2025Expressive Score-Based Priors for Distribution Matching with Geometry-Preserving Regularization
- ICML 2025Faster Approximation Algorithms for k-Center via Data Reduction
- ICML 2025Federated In-Context Learning: Iterative Refinement for Improved Answer Quality
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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.