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

167 papers, page 2 of 4

51. NeurIPS 2026Cauchy Scientific Networks: Loss–Architecture Alignment and Its Limit
52. NeurIPS 2026Closing the Approximation Gap in Simulation-free Latent SDEs
53. NeurIPS 2026Controllable User Simulation
54. NeurIPS 2026DiscoverPhysics: Benchmarking LLMs for out-of-the-box scientific thinking
55. NeurIPS 2026Don't Match the Noise: Distribution Matching under Unknown Measurement Error with an Audit Sample
56. NeurIPS 2026Macrocanonical Generator Networks: data-efficient neural surrogates for amortized physics simulation
57. NeurIPS 2026PDE-PFN: Prior-Data Fitted Neural PDE Solver
58. NeurIPS 2026PhyTS: A Benchmark for Scientific Time Series
59. NeurIPS 2026PRISM: Programming Interactive Scenes from Monocular Images for Embodied Simulation
60. NeurIPS 2026Reconstructing the Vocal Tract with Differentiable Acoustic Simulation
61. NeurIPS 2026Robust Amortized Simulation-Based Inference via Learned Error Models
62. NeurIPS 2026Scaling Storm-Resolving Atmospheric AI Simulation to the Entire Planet
63. NeurIPS 2026SciR: A Controllable Benchmark for Scientific Reasoning in LLMs
64. NeurIPS 2026SIGA: Scientific Simulation Coding Agent Adapter- A Geophysics Case Study
65. NeurIPS 2026Symplectic Parallel Scan: A Neural Hamiltonian Framework for Accelerated Scientific Simulation
66. NeurIPS 2026Theoretical guidelines for annealed Langevin dynamics in compositional simulation-based inference
67. NeurIPS 2026Two Phase Rapid Simulation Based Inference with Differentiable Simulators
68. NeurIPS 2026WTF?! Simulation-Free Reinforcement Learning with Wasserstein-Tilted Flow Maps
69. CVPR 2025DiSciPLE: Learning Interpretable Programs for Scientific Visual Discovery
70. CVPR 2025DrivingSphere: Building a High-fidelity 4D World for Closed-loop Simulation
71. CVPR 2025FreeSim: Toward Free-viewpoint Camera Simulation in Driving Scenes
72. CVPR 2025MicroVQA: A Multimodal Reasoning Benchmark for Microscopy-Based Scientific Research
73. CVPR 2025Science-T2I: Addressing Scientific Illusions in Image Synthesis
74. CVPR 2025SimAvatar: Simulation-Ready Avatars with Layered Hair and Clothing
75. CVPR 2025Towards Autonomous Micromobility through Scalable Urban Simulation
76. CVPR 2025UrbanCAD: Towards Highly Controllable and Photorealistic 3D Vehicles for Urban Scene Simulation
77. ICLR 2025Diff-PIC: Revolutionizing Particle-In-Cell Nuclear Fusion Simulation with Diffusion Models
78. ICLR 2025Neural Fluid Simulation on Geometric Surfaces
79. ICLR 2025Robust Simulation-Based Inference under Missing Data via Neural Processes
80. ICLR 2025Semialgebraic Neural Networks: From roots to representations
81. ICLR 2025Wavelet Diffusion Neural Operator
82. ICML 2025Addressing Misspecification in Simulation-based Inference through Data-driven Calibration
83. ICML 2025BARNN: A Bayesian Autoregressive and Recurrent Neural Network
84. ICML 2025Interpolating Neural Network-Tensor Decomposition (INN-TD): a scalable and interpretable approach for large-scale physics-based problems
85. ICML 2025Latent Mamba Operator for Partial Differential Equations
86. ICML 2025Parallel Simulation for Log-concave Sampling and Score-based Diffusion Models
87. ICML 2025SCENT: Robust Spatiotemporal Learning for Continuous Scientific Data via Scalable Conditioned Neural Fields
88. ICML 2025Schwarz–Schur Involution: Lightspeed Differentiable Sparse Linear Solvers
89. ICML 2025Unisolver: PDE-Conditional Transformers Towards Universal Neural PDE Solvers
90. NeurIPS 2025A Plug-and-Play Query Synthesis Active Learning Framework for Neural PDE Solvers
91. NeurIPS 2025AI-Researcher: Autonomous Scientific Innovation
92. NeurIPS 2025Attention on the Sphere
93. NeurIPS 2025Breaking the Discretization Barrier of Continuous Physics Simulation Learning
94. NeurIPS 2025Bubbleformer: Forecasting Boiling with Transformers
95. NeurIPS 2025CoLT: The conditional localization test for assessing the accuracy of neural posterior estimates
96. NeurIPS 2025Common Task Framework For a Critical Evaluation of Scientific Machine Learning Algorithms
97. NeurIPS 2025Connectome-Based Modelling Reveals Orientation Maps in the Drosophila Optic Lobe
98. NeurIPS 2025Diffusion-Based Hierarchical Graph Neural Networks for Simulating Nonlinear Solid Mechanics
99. NeurIPS 2025Effortless, Simulation-Efficient Bayesian Inference using Tabular Foundation Models
100. NeurIPS 2025From Kolmogorov to Cauchy: Shallow XNet Surpasses KANs

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.