Physics-Informed ML papers, 2023–2026
PINNs and physics priors
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 481 papers are tagged with this topic.
Key findings
- Physics-Informed ML went from 50 papers in 2023 to 199 in 2026, roughly 4.0x in three years.
- NeurIPS publishes the most Physics-Informed ML work: 167 papers from 2023 to 2026, 35% of the four-venue total.
- The fastest-growing overlap is with Multimodal LLMs: papers tagged with both rose from 0 in 2023 to 11 in 2026.
- Among the 5 topics under Climate and Physical Sciences, it ranks #1 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Weather Forecasting, is up 6.1x versus 4.0x here.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 21 | 9 | 11 | 9 | 50 |
| 2024 | 27 | 32 | 15 | 11 | 85 |
| 2025 | 65 | 38 | 25 | 19 | 147 |
| 2026 | 54 | 64 | 51 | 30 | 199 |
Representative papers
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- NeurIPS 2026Derivative-Informed Training of Neural Operators On-the-Fly via Sketched Tangent Consistency
- ICML 2026Bias-Spectrum Neural Processes for Parametric PDEs: Architecture Priors Meet PDE Constraints
- ICLR 2026CONSIGN: Conformal Segmentation Informed by Spatial Groupings via Decomposition
- CVPR 2026Domain Sensitive Federated Learning with Fisher-Informed Pruning
- NeurIPS 2025Activation-Informed Merging of Large Language Models
- ICML 2025Geometry-Informed Neural Networks
- ICLR 2025Beyond the convexity assumption: Realistic tabular data generation under quantifier-free real linear constraints
- CVPR 2025A Physics-Informed Blur Learning Framework for Imaging Systems
- NeurIPS 2024ChaosBench: A Multi-Channel, Physics-Based Benchmark for Subseasonal-to-Seasonal Climate Prediction
- ICML 2024A Space Group Symmetry Informed Network for O(3) Equivariant Crystal Tensor Prediction
- ICLR 2024AirPhyNet: Harnessing Physics-Guided Neural Networks for Air Quality Prediction
- CVPR 2024A Physics-informed Low-rank Deep Neural Network for Blind and Universal Lens Aberration Correction
- NeurIPS 2023ClimSim: A large multi-scale dataset for hybrid physics-ML climate emulation
- ICML 2023Gradient Descent Finds the Global Optima of Two-Layer Physics-Informed Neural Networks
- ICLR 2023Bi-level Physics-Informed Neural Networks for PDE Constrained Optimization using Broyden's Hypergradients
- CVPR 20233D Human Pose Estimation via Intuitive Physics
- NeurIPS 2026Neural Modal Decomposition: Architectural Priors from Observables
- ICML 2026Fine-to-Coarse Fairness-Informed Multi-View Clustering
- ICLR 2026From Neural Networks to Logical Theories: The Correspondence between Fibring Modal Logics and Fibring Neural Networks
- CVPR 2026LaDy Lagrangian-Dynamic Informed Network for Skeleton-based Action Segmentation via Spatial-Temporal
All Physics-Informed ML papers
147 papers, page 2 of 3
- ICLR 2025Rethinking the role of frames for SE(3)-invariant crystal structure modeling
- ICLR 2025Robust Weight Initialization for Tanh Neural Networks with Fixed Point Analysis
- ICLR 2025Second-Order Fine-Tuning without Pain for LLMs: A Hessian Informed Zeroth-Order Optimizer
- ICLR 2025Solving Differential Equations with Constrained Learning
- ICLR 2025Student-Informed Teacher Training
- ICLR 2025Symbolic regression via MDLformer-guided search: from minimizing prediction error to minimizing description length
- ICLR 2025Towards Automated Knowledge Integration From Human-Interpretable Representations
- ICML 2025A Machine Learning Approach to Duality in Statistical Physics
- ICML 2025Calibrated Physics-Informed Uncertainty Quantification
- ICML 2025Causal-PIK: Causality-based Physical Reasoning with a Physics-Informed Kernel
- ICML 2025Context-Informed Neural ODEs Unexpectedly Identify Broken Symmetries: Insights from the Poincaré–Hopf Theorem
- ICML 2025CoPINN: Cognitive Physics-Informed Neural Networks
- ICML 2025DISCO: learning to DISCover an evolution Operator for multi-physics-agnostic prediction
- ICML 2025Evolving Minds: Logic-Informed Inference from Temporal Action Patterns
- ICML 2025Geometry-Informed Neural Networks
- ICML 2025Holistic Physics Solver: Learning PDEs in a Unified Spectral-Physical Space
- ICML 2025Learning Single Index Models with Diffusion Priors
- ICML 2025MIPT: Multilevel Informed Prompt Tuning for Robust Molecular Property Prediction
- ICML 2025MultiPDENet: PDE-embedded Learning with Multi-time-stepping for Accelerated Flow Simulation
- ICML 2025Near-optimal Sketchy Natural Gradients for Physics-Informed Neural Networks
- ICML 2025NEAR: Neural Electromagnetic Array Response
- ICML 2025PEINR: A Physics-enhanced Implicit Neural Representation for High-Fidelity Flow Field Reconstruction
- ICML 2025Physics-Informed DeepONets for drift-diffusion on metric graphs: simulation and parameter identification
- ICML 2025Physics-Informed Generative Modeling of Wireless Channels
- ICML 2025Physics-informed Temporal Alignment for Auto-regressive PDE Foundation Models
- ICML 2025Physics-Informed Weakly Supervised Learning For Interatomic Potentials
- ICML 2025PINNsAgent: Automated PDE Surrogation with Large Language Models
- ICML 2025Refined generalization analysis of the Deep Ritz Method and Physics-Informed Neural Networks
- ICML 2025Riemann Tensor Neural Networks: Learning Conservative Systems with Physics-Constrained Networks
- ICML 2025Structure-informed Risk Minimization for Robust Ensemble Learning
- ICML 2025Sub-Sequential Physics-Informed Learning with State Space Model
- ICML 2025Topology-aware Neural Flux Prediction Guided by Physics
- NeurIPS 20253DID: Direct 3D Inverse Design for Aerodynamics with Physics-Aware Optimization
- NeurIPS 2025A Differential and Pointwise Control Approach to Reinforcement Learning
- NeurIPS 2025A Physics-preserved Transfer Learning Method for Differential Equations
- NeurIPS 2025Activation-Informed Merging of Large Language Models
- NeurIPS 2025Attention on the Sphere
- NeurIPS 2025BaRISTA: Brain Scale Informed Spatiotemporal Representation of Human Intracranial Neural Activity
- NeurIPS 2025Brain-Informed Fine-Tuning for Improved Multilingual Understanding in Language Models
- NeurIPS 2025Consistency of Physics-Informed Neural Networks for Second-Order Elliptic Equations
- NeurIPS 2025Deep learning for continuous-time stochastic control with jumps
- NeurIPS 2025Distance-informed Neural Processes
- NeurIPS 2025Energy Loss Functions for Physical Systems
- NeurIPS 2025Enforcing Hard Linear Constraints in Deep Learning Models with Decision Rules
- NeurIPS 2025Eulerian Neural Network Informed by Chemical Transport for Air Quality Forecasting
- NeurIPS 2025FAIR Universe HiggsML Uncertainty Dataset and Competition
- NeurIPS 2025FALCON: An ML Framework for Fully Automated Layout-Constrained Analog Circuit Design
- NeurIPS 2025FlareX: A Physics-Informed Dataset for Lens Flare Removal via 2D Synthesis and 3D Rendering
- NeurIPS 2025FP64 is All You Need: Rethinking Failure Modes in Physics-Informed Neural Networks
- NeurIPS 2025From Pixels to Views: Learning Angular-Aware and Physics-Consistent Representations for Light Field Microscopy
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FAQ
- How many Physics-Informed ML papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?
- 481 in total: 50 in 2023, 85 in 2024, 147 in 2025, 199 in 2026.
- How many Physics-Informed ML papers are at NeurIPS 2026?
- NeurIPS 2026 has 54 Physics-Informed ML papers, versus 65 the year before.
- How many Physics-Informed ML papers are at ICLR 2026?
- ICLR 2026 has 64 Physics-Informed ML papers, versus 38 the year before.
- How many Physics-Informed ML papers are at ICML 2026?
- ICML 2026 has 51 Physics-Informed ML papers, versus 25 the year before.
- How many Physics-Informed ML papers are at CVPR 2026?
- CVPR 2026 has 30 Physics-Informed ML papers, versus 19 the year before.
- Which conference publishes the most Physics-Informed ML papers?
- NeurIPS, with 167 papers from 2023 to 2026.