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 2026A Dense Subset Index for Collective Query Coverage
- ICLR 2026A Federated Generalized Expectation-Maximization Algorithm for Mixture Models with an Unknown Number of Components
- ICLR 2026A Genetic Algorithm for Navigating Synthesizable Molecular Spaces
- ICLR 2026A Near-Optimal Best-of-Both-Worlds Algorithm for Federated Bandits
- ICLR 2026A One-shot Framework for Directed Evolution of Antibodies
- ICLR 2026A Recovery Guarantee for Sparse Neural Networks
- ICLR 2026A Scalable Constant-Factor Approximation Algorithm for $W_p$ Optimal Transport
- ICLR 2026A Schrödinger Eigenfunction Method for Long-Horizon Stochastic Optimal Control
- ICLR 2026A State-Transition Framework for Efficient LLM Reasoning
- ICLR 2026A Study on PAVE Specification for Learnware
- ICLR 2026A Theoretical Analysis of Mamba’s Training Dynamics: Filtering Relevant Features for Generalization in State Space Models
- ICLR 2026A Unified Federated Framework for Trajectory Data Preparation via LLMs
- ICLR 2026A Unified Total Variation Framework for Membrane Potential Perturbation Dynamic
- ICLR 2026Accelerating Inference for Multilayer Neural Networks with Quantum Computers
- ICLR 2026Active Learning for Decision Trees with Provable Guarantees
- ICLR 2026Adaptive Augmentation-Aware Latent Learning for Robust LiDAR Semantic Segmentation
- ICLR 2026Adaptive Conformal Guidance for Learning under Uncertainty
- ICLR 2026AdaSpec: Adaptive Spectrum for Enhanced Node Distinguishability
- ICLR 2026Advancing Multi-agent Traffic Simulation via R1-Style Reinforcement Fine-Tuning
- ICLR 2026AIRE-Prune: Asymptotic Impulse-Response Energy for State Pruning in State Space Models
- ICLR 2026Aligner, Diagnose Thyself: A Meta-Learning Paradigm for Fusing Intrinsic Feedback in Preference Alignment
- ICLR 2026An efficient, provably optimal, practical algorithm for the 0-1 loss linear classification problem
- ICLR 2026An Ensemble Framework for Unbiased Language Model Watermarking
- ICLR 2026An Orthogonal Learner for Individualized Outcomes in Markov Decision Processes
- ICLR 2026AtC: Aggregate-then-Calibrate for Human-centered Assessment
- ICLR 2026Attend to the Active: Structure-Aware Dynamic Attention in LLMs for Compositional Instruction Following
- ICLR 2026Attention Smoothing Is All You Need For Unlearning
- ICLR 2026AutoCode: LLMs as Problem Setters for Competitive Programming
- ICLR 2026AutoDA-Timeseries: Automated Data Augmentation for Time Series
- ICLR 2026AutoEP: LLMs-Driven Automation of Hyperparameter Evolution for Metaheuristic Algorithms
- ICLR 2026AWM: Accurate Weight-Matrix Fingerprint for Large Language Models
- ICLR 2026Bayesian Neural Networks for Functional ANOVA Model
- ICLR 2026Belief-Based Offline Reinforcement Learning for Delay-Robust Policy Optimization
- ICLR 2026Best-of-Majority: Minimax-Optimal Strategy for Pass@k Inference Scaling
- ICLR 2026Best-of-three-worlds Analysis for Dueling Bandits with Borda Winner
- ICLR 2026Beyond Fixed: Training-Free Variable-Length Denoising for Diffusion Large Language Models
- ICLR 2026Beyond Grid-Locked Voxels: Neural Response Functions for Continuous Brain Encoding
- ICLR 2026Beyond Visual Reconstruction Quality: Object Perception-aware 3D Gaussian Splatting for Autonomous Driving
- ICLR 2026Binomial Gradient-Based Meta-Learning for Enhanced Meta-Gradient Estimation
- ICLR 2026BioMD: All-atom Generative Model for Biomolecular Dynamics Simulation
- ICLR 2026Boosted Trees on a Diet: Compact Models for Resource-Constrained Devices
- ICLR 2026Boosting for Predictive Sufficiency
- ICLR 2026BridgeDrive: Diffusion Bridge Policy for Closed-Loop Trajectory Planning in Autonomous Driving
- ICLR 2026C-Evolve: Consensus-based Evolution for Prompt Groups
- ICLR 2026CardioComposer: Leveraging Differentiable Geometry for Compositional Control of Anatomical Diffusion Models
- ICLR 2026ChatInject: Abusing Chat Templates for Prompt Injection in LLM Agents
- ICLR 2026ChronoEdit: Towards Temporal Reasoning for In-Context Image Editing and World Simulation
- ICLR 2026CLAP: Unsupervised 3D Representation Learning for Fusion 3D Perception via Curvature Sampling and Prototype Learning
- ICLR 2026Closed-form $\ell_r$ norm scaling with data for overparameterized linear regression and diagonal linear networks under $\ell_p$ bias
- ICLR 2026Compositional amortized inference for large-scale hierarchical Bayesian 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.