Scientific Simulation papers, 2023–2026

Key findings

• Scientific Simulation went from 16 papers in 2023 to 68 in 2026, roughly 4.3x in three years.
• NeurIPS publishes the most Scientific Simulation work: 71 papers from 2023 to 2026, 43% of the four-venue total.
• The fastest-growing overlap is with AI Agents: papers tagged with both rose from 0 in 2023 to 11 in 2026.
• Among the 5 topics under Climate and Physical Sciences, it ranks #4 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Weather Forecasting, is up 6.1x versus 4.3x here.

Representative papers

Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up

• NeurIPS 2026Don't Match the Noise: Distribution Matching under Unknown Measurement Error with an Audit Sample
• ICML 2026Amortized Simulation-Based Inference in Generalized Bayes via Neural Posterior Estimation
• ICLR 2026Geometric Constraints for Small Language Models to Understand and Expand Scientific Taxonomies
• CVPR 2026AirSim360 A Panoramic Simulation Platform within Drone View
• NeurIPS 2025Attention on the Sphere
• ICML 2025Addressing Misspecification in Simulation-based Inference through Data-driven Calibration
• ICLR 2025Neural Fluid Simulation on Geometric Surfaces
• CVPR 2025DiSciPLE: Learning Interpretable Programs for Scientific Visual Discovery
• NeurIPS 2024QGym: Scalable Simulation and Benchmarking of Queuing Network Controllers
• ICML 2024Position: Embracing Negative Results in Machine Learning
• ICLR 2024BENO: Boundary-embedded Neural Operators for Elliptic PDEs
• CVPR 2024GenH2R: Learning Generalizable Human-to-Robot Handover via Scalable Simulation Demonstration and Imitation
• NeurIPS 2023Generalized Bayesian Inference for Scientific Simulators via Amortized Cost Estimation
• ICML 2023QASA: Advanced Question Answering on Scientific Articles
• ICLR 2023Mind's Eye: Grounded Language Model Reasoning through Simulation
• CVPR 2023Practical Network Acceleration With Tiny Sets
• NeurIPS 2026SIGA: Scientific Simulation Coding Agent Adapter- A Geophysics Case Study
• ICML 2026ePC: Fast and Deep Predictive Coding in Digital Simulation
• ICLR 2026Charts Are Not Images: On the Challenges of Scientific Chart Editing
• CVPR 2026Texvent Asynchronous Event Data Simulation via Text Prompt

All Scientific Simulation papers

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1. CVPR 2026AirSim360 A Panoramic Simulation Platform within Drone View
2. CVPR 2026Beyond Scanpaths Graph-Based Gaze Simulation in Dynamic Scenes
3. CVPR 2026DiffusionHarmonizer Bridging Neural Reconstruction and Photorealistic Simulation with Online Diffusion
4. CVPR 2026FluidGaussian Propagating Simulation-Based Uncertainty Toward Functionally-Intelligent 3D Reconstruction
5. CVPR 2026FreeForm Reduced-Order Deformable Simulation from Particle-Based Skinning Eigenmodes
6. CVPR 2026Push-and-Step From RL-Based Balance Recovery to Physical Simulation of Dense
7. CVPR 2026ReWeaver Towards Simulation-Ready and Topology-Accurate Garment Reconstruction
8. CVPR 2026Texvent Asynchronous Event Data Simulation via Text Prompt
9. ICLR 2026AstaBench: Rigorous Benchmarking of AI Agents with a Scientific Research Suite
10. ICLR 2026Charts Are Not Images: On the Challenges of Scientific Chart Editing
11. ICLR 2026CoT-Evo: Evolutionary Distillation of Chain-of-Thought for Scientific Reasoning
12. ICLR 2026Geometric Constraints for Small Language Models to Understand and Expand Scientific Taxonomies
13. ICLR 2026Locally Subspace-Informed Neural Operators for Efficient Multiscale PDE Solving
14. ICLR 2026Refine Now, Query Fast: A Decoupled Refinement Paradigm for Implicit Neural Fields
15. ICLR 2026SCI-Verifier: Scientific Verifier with Thinking
16. ICLR 2026Speculative Actions: A Lossless Framework for Faster AI Agents
17. ICLR 2026The Seismic Wavefield Common Task Framework
18. ICLR 2026Towards a Certificate of Trust: Task-Aware OOD Detection for Scientific AI
19. ICML 2026Amortized Simulation-Based Inference in Generalized Bayes via Neural Posterior Estimation
20. ICML 2026Beyond Continuity: Simulation-free Reconstruction of Discrete Branching Dynamics from Single-cell Snapshots
21. ICML 2026Breaking the Simplification Bottleneck in Amortized Neural Symbolic Regression
22. ICML 2026Conformal C2ST: Turning weak classifiers into strong two-sample tests
23. ICML 2026ePC: Fast and Deep Predictive Coding in Digital Simulation
24. ICML 2026Euler–Poincaré Neural Dynamics: A Geometric-Mechanics Framework for Scientific Simulation
25. ICML 2026Flow Matching Calibration for Simulation-Based Inference under Model Misspecification
26. ICML 2026Gecko: A Simulation Environment with Stateful Feedback for Refining Agent Tool Calls
27. ICML 2026GeoPT: Scaling Physics Simulation via Lifted Geometric Pre-Training
28. ICML 2026Grounding LLMs in Scientific Discovery via Embodied Actions
29. ICML 2026History-Bootstrapped Flow Matching for Inverse Boiling Reconstruction
30. ICML 2026Hyperbolic Neural Operator
31. ICML 2026Iterative Refinement Neural Operators are Learned Fixed-Point Solvers: A Principled Approach to Spectral Bias Mitigation
32. ICML 2026Learning Biophysical Models of Large-Scale Multineuronal Data To Enable Precise Neurostimulation
33. ICML 2026MeshTok: Efficient Multi-Scale Tokenization for Scalable PDE Transformers
34. ICML 2026Minimum Distance Summaries for Robust Neural Posterior Estimation
35. ICML 2026PODiff: Latent Diffusion in Proper Orthogonal Decomposition Space for Scientific Super-Resolution
36. ICML 2026RAPNet: Accelerating Algebraic Multigrid with Learned Sparse Corrections
37. ICML 2026SafeLab: An Interactive High-Fidelity Benchmark for Embodied Safety in Scientific Robotics
38. ICML 2026Scalable Simulation-Based Model Inference with Test-Time Complexity Control
39. ICML 2026ScaleSim: Serving Large-Scale Multi-Agent Simulation with Invocation Distance-Based Memory Management
40. ICML 2026SciNet: Evaluating AI Agents in Relation-Aware Scientific Literature Retrieval
41. ICML 2026Simple yet Effective: Low-Rank Spatial Attention for Neural Operators
42. ICML 2026Structure-Preserving Learning Improves Geometry Generalization in Neural PDEs
43. ICML 2026Towards Diverse Scientific Hypothesis Search with Large Language Models
44. NeurIPS 2026AnchorWorld: Embodied Egocentric World Simulation with View-based Evolution Customization
45. NeurIPS 2026Auditing AI peer reviewers: a dose-response and false-positive benchmark on real scientific papers
46. NeurIPS 2026AutoScientists: Self-Organizing Agent Teams for Long-Running Scientific Experimentation
47. NeurIPS 2026Bifurcation Models: Learning Set-Valued Solution Maps with Weight-Tied Dynamics
48. NeurIPS 2026Bridging the Simulation-to-Experiment Gap with Adversarial Distribution Alignment
49. NeurIPS 2026Calibrating Scientific Foundation Models with Inference-Time Stochastic Attention
50. NeurIPS 2026Can AI Agents Synthesize Scientific Conclusions?

FAQ

How many Scientific Simulation papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?

167 in total: 16 in 2023, 38 in 2024, 45 in 2025, 68 in 2026.

How many Scientific Simulation papers are at NeurIPS 2026?

NeurIPS 2026 has 25 Scientific Simulation papers, versus 24 the year before.

How many Scientific Simulation papers are at ICLR 2026?

ICLR 2026 has 10 Scientific Simulation papers, versus 5 the year before.

How many Scientific Simulation papers are at ICML 2026?

ICML 2026 has 25 Scientific Simulation papers, versus 8 the year before.

How many Scientific Simulation papers are at CVPR 2026?

CVPR 2026 has 8 Scientific Simulation papers, versus 8 the year before.

Which conference publishes the most Scientific Simulation papers?

NeurIPS, with 71 papers from 2023 to 2026.