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
54 papers, page 1 of 2
- NeurIPS 2026AnyBokeh: Physics-Guided Any-to-Any Bokeh Editing with Optical Fingerprint Transfer
- NeurIPS 2026Architecture-Embedded Physics Priors for Mitigating Spectral Bias in Physics-Informed Neural Networks
- NeurIPS 2026Context Value Informed In-Context Reinforcement Learning
- NeurIPS 2026CrystalREPA: Transferring Physical Priors from Universal MLIPs to Crystal Generative Models
- NeurIPS 2026Derivative-Informed Training of Neural Operators On-the-Fly via Sketched Tangent Consistency
- NeurIPS 2026Diffeomoprhism-Informed 3D Gaussian Splattings via Screen-Space Optimal Transport (OT)
- NeurIPS 2026End-to-End Differentiable Diffusion Conditioning for Physics-Informed Optimization
- NeurIPS 2026Energy-Guided Transport for Projection-Free Physics-Informed Flow Matching
- NeurIPS 2026Fast Learning Rates for Physics-Informed Kernel Methods
- NeurIPS 2026Generalizable Physics Simulation through Compositional Energy Minimization
- NeurIPS 2026Geometry Meets Physics: Data-Efficient Pre-Training for Unstructured Neural PDE Solvers
- NeurIPS 2026GIVLA: Deep Geometry Internalization for A Lightweight VLA via Geometry Instruction and Gradient-Informed Training
- NeurIPS 2026H-Flow: Self-supervised Human Scene Flow via Physics-inspired Joint Multi-modal Learning
- NeurIPS 2026INEUS: Iterative Neural Solver for High-Dimensional PIDEs
- NeurIPS 2026Informed Posterior Sampling: More Efficient Online Learning with Few Offline Demonstrations in Average-Reward MDPs
- NeurIPS 2026KerONet: A Single Softmax Readout Suffices for Physics-Informed Operator Learning
- NeurIPS 2026Learning POMDP World Models from Observations with Language-Model Priors
- NeurIPS 2026LEMON-ZEST: Evolution-Informed Tokenization for Efficient Protein Language Modeling
- NeurIPS 2026Mosaic: A Benchmark Suite for Differentiable Physics Solvers
- NeurIPS 2026Neural Field Thermal Tomography: A Differentiable Physics Framework for Non-Destructive Evaluation
- NeurIPS 2026Neural Modal Decomposition: Architectural Priors from Observables
- NeurIPS 2026Neural Operator-based Curriculum Learning for Physics-Informed Neural Networks
- NeurIPS 2026NeuralFieldManifold: Reconstruction of LFP manifold with Lag Embedding
- NeurIPS 2026Newton-PINet: A fast physics-informed neural network with Newton linearization for meta-learning nonlinear PDEs
- NeurIPS 2026PDE-PFN: Prior-Data Fitted Neural PDE Solver
- NeurIPS 2026Per-Loss Adapters for Gradient Conflict in Physics-Informed Neural Networks
- NeurIPS 2026PhysElite: How Far Are LLMs from Solving Olympiad-Level Physics Problems?
- NeurIPS 2026PhysFormer: Learning to Simulate Mechanics in World Space
- NeurIPS 2026Physics Unrolled Neural Operator for Wireless Field Modeling
- NeurIPS 2026Physics-Conditioned Video Diffusion with Kinematic Priors for Fusion Capsule Polishing
- NeurIPS 2026Physics-Informed Functional Tucker Method with RKHS Factors for Sparse Spatiotemporal Reconstruction
- NeurIPS 2026Physics-Informed Optimal Control by Control-Only Supervision with Error Guarantees on Value and Policy
- NeurIPS 2026Physics-Informed Video Generation via Mixture-of-Experts Latent Alignment
- NeurIPS 2026PhySPRING: Structure-Preserving Reduction of Physics-Informed Digital Twins via Graph Neural Networks
- NeurIPS 2026PI-EDG: Physics-Informed Full-Space Electron Density Generation from Molecular Geometry
- NeurIPS 2026PINNeval: A Comprehensive Evaluation Standard for Physics-Informed Neural Networks
- NeurIPS 2026PIU-CR: Physics-Informed Deep Unfolding Network with SAR-Optical Image Fusion for Cloud Removal
- NeurIPS 2026PolarScale: A Physics-Grounded Benchmark for Radiometrically Consistent RGB-to-Stokes Estimation
- NeurIPS 2026Prior Text-Informed Gate Attention Framework for Multimodal Psychiatric Disorder Diagnosis
- NeurIPS 2026RAWild: Toward Sensor-Agnostic RAW Object Detection via Physics-Guided Curve and Grid Modeling
- NeurIPS 2026ReGuidance: Diffusion Steering with Strong Latent Initializations Solves Hard Inverse Problems
- NeurIPS 2026REINS: Learning Inertia-Induced Geometry for Physics-Consistent Motion Representation in Clinical Gait Phenotyping
- NeurIPS 2026Self-Supervised Doppler-Guided RF Odometry
- NeurIPS 2026Simplifying Transformer-Based U-Net Neural Physics Simulators
- NeurIPS 2026SKIM: Pruning Large Language Model Agents via Selective Knowledge Informed Masking
- NeurIPS 2026Sparsely-Supervised Data Assimilation via Physics-Informed Schrödinger Bridge
- NeurIPS 2026SpikeSSL: A Universal Spike Inference Framework with Dynamics-Informed State-Space Layers
- NeurIPS 2026The Subjectivity of Monoculture
- NeurIPS 2026Training-Free Cultural Alignment of Large Language Models via Persona Disagreement
- NeurIPS 2026Ultra Fast PDE Solving via Physics Guided Few-step Diffusion
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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.