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
Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up
- 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
481 papers, page 9 of 10
- ICML 2024Physics-Informed Neural Network Policy Iteration: Algorithms, Convergence, and Verification
- ICML 2024PIPER: Primitive-Informed Preference-based Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning via Hindsight Relabeling
- ICML 2024Pluvial Flood Emulation with Hydraulics-informed Message Passing
- ICML 2024Stability-Informed Initialization of Neural Ordinary Differential Equations
- NeurIPS 2024A Phase Transition between Positional and Semantic Learning in a Solvable Model of Dot-Product Attention
- NeurIPS 2024ChaosBench: A Multi-Channel, Physics-Based Benchmark for Subseasonal-to-Seasonal Climate Prediction
- NeurIPS 2024Constrained Synthesis with Projected Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2024CryoGEM: Physics-Informed Generative Cryo-Electron Microscopy
- NeurIPS 2024DEL: Discrete Element Learner for Learning 3D Particle Dynamics with Neural Rendering
- NeurIPS 2024Dual Cone Gradient Descent for Training Physics-Informed Neural Networks
- NeurIPS 2024How does PDE order affect the convergence of PINNs?
- NeurIPS 2024Kronecker-Factored Approximate Curvature for Physics-Informed Neural Networks
- NeurIPS 2024Lorentz-Equivariant Geometric Algebra Transformers for High-Energy Physics
- NeurIPS 2024Matrix Denoising with Doubly Heteroscedastic Noise: Fundamental Limits and Optimal Spectral Methods
- NeurIPS 2024Med-Real2Sim: Non-Invasive Medical Digital Twins using Physics-Informed Self-Supervised Learning
- NeurIPS 2024Meta-Learning Universal Priors Using Non-Injective Change of Variables
- NeurIPS 2024Multi-Object 3D Grounding with Dynamic Modules and Language-Informed Spatial Attention
- NeurIPS 2024Multiple Physics Pretraining for Spatiotemporal Surrogate Models
- NeurIPS 2024Newton Informed Neural Operator for Solving Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations
- NeurIPS 2024P$^2$C$^2$Net: PDE-Preserved Coarse Correction Network for efficient prediction of spatiotemporal dynamics
- NeurIPS 2024Physics-informed Neural Networks for Functional Differential Equations: Cylindrical Approximation and Its Convergence Guarantees
- NeurIPS 2024Physics-Informed Regularization for Domain-Agnostic Dynamical System Modeling
- NeurIPS 2024Physics-Informed Variational State-Space Gaussian Processes
- NeurIPS 2024Physics-Regularized Multi-Modal Image Assimilation for Brain Tumor Localization
- NeurIPS 2024PINNacle: A Comprehensive Benchmark of Physics-Informed Neural Networks for Solving PDEs
- NeurIPS 2024Posture-Informed Muscular Force Learning for Robust Hand Pressure Estimation
- NeurIPS 2024RoPINN: Region Optimized Physics-Informed Neural Networks
- NeurIPS 2024SEA: State-Exchange Attention for High-Fidelity Physics Based Transformers
- NeurIPS 2024The Challenges of the Nonlinear Regime for Physics-Informed Neural Networks
- NeurIPS 2024Transfer Learning with Informative Priors: Simple Baselines Better than Previously Reported
- NeurIPS 2024What is my quantum computer good for? Quantum capability learning with physics-aware neural networks
- CVPR 20233D Human Pose Estimation via Intuitive Physics
- CVPR 2023DP-NeRF: Deblurred Neural Radiance Field With Physical Scene Priors
- CVPR 2023Imitation Learning As State Matching via Differentiable Physics
- CVPR 2023Learning 3D Scene Priors With 2D Supervision
- CVPR 2023Neural Part Priors: Learning To Optimize Part-Based Object Completion in RGB-D Scans
- CVPR 2023NLOST: Non-Line-of-Sight Imaging With Transformer
- CVPR 2023Physics-Driven Diffusion Models for Impact Sound Synthesis From Videos
- CVPR 2023Thermal Spread Functions (TSF): Physics-Guided Material Classification
- CVPR 2023Towards Unbiased Volume Rendering of Neural Implicit Surfaces With Geometry Priors
- ICLR 2023Bi-level Physics-Informed Neural Networks for PDE Constrained Optimization using Broyden's Hypergradients
- ICLR 2023Competitive Physics Informed Networks
- ICLR 2023DiffMimic: Efficient Motion Mimicking with Differentiable Physics
- ICLR 2023Guiding continuous operator learning through Physics-based boundary constraints
- ICLR 2023Improved Training of Physics-Informed Neural Networks Using Energy-Based Priors: a Study on Electrical Impedance Tomography
- ICLR 2023NTFields: Neural Time Fields for Physics-Informed Robot Motion Planning
- ICLR 2023Phase2vec: dynamical systems embedding with a physics-informed convolutional network
- ICLR 2023Simple initialization and parametrization of sinusoidal networks via their kernel bandwidth
- ICLR 2023Zeroth-Order Optimization with Trajectory-Informed Derivative Estimation
- ICML 2023Achieving High Accuracy with PINNs via Energy Natural Gradient Descent
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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.