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 3 of 4

101. NeurIPS 2025Integration Matters for Learning PDEs with Backwards SDEs
102. NeurIPS 2025LabUtopia: High-Fidelity Simulation and Hierarchical Benchmark for Scientific Embodied Agents
103. NeurIPS 2025Learning Sparse Approximate Inverse Preconditioners for Conjugate Gradient Solvers on GPUs
104. NeurIPS 2025ML4CFD Competition: Results and Retrospective Analysis
105. NeurIPS 2025NeurIPS should lead scientific consensus on AI policy
106. NeurIPS 2025Non-stationary Equivariant Graph Neural Networks for Physical Dynamics Simulation
107. NeurIPS 2025Position: Biology is the Challenge Physics-Informed ML Needs to Evolve
108. NeurIPS 2025Prompting as Scientific Inquiry
109. NeurIPS 2025ReSim: Reliable World Simulation for Autonomous Driving
110. NeurIPS 2025SciArena: An Open Evaluation Platform for Non-Verifiable Scientific Literature-Grounded Tasks
111. NeurIPS 2025SimSort: A Data-Driven Framework for Spike Sorting by Large-Scale Electrophysiology Simulation
112. NeurIPS 2025SonoGym: High Performance Simulation for Challenging Surgical Tasks with Robotic Ultrasound
113. NeurIPS 2025WorldMem: Long-term Consistent World Simulation with Memory
114. CVPR 2024Circuit Design and Efficient Simulation of Quantum Inner Product and Empirical Studies of Its Effect on Near-Term Hybrid Quantum-Classic Machine Learning
115. CVPR 2024DiffAvatar: Simulation-Ready Garment Optimization with Differentiable Simulation
116. CVPR 2024Dynamic LiDAR Re-simulation using Compositional Neural Fields
117. CVPR 2024Editable Scene Simulation for Autonomous Driving via Collaborative LLM-Agents
118. CVPR 2024GenH2R: Learning Generalizable Human-to-Robot Handover via Scalable Simulation Demonstration and Imitation
119. CVPR 2024RadSimReal: Bridging the Gap Between Synthetic and Real Data in Radar Object Detection With Simulation
120. ICLR 2024BENO: Boundary-embedded Neural Operators for Elliptic PDEs
121. ICML 2024All-in-one simulation-based inference
122. ICML 2024Finite Volume Features, Global Geometry Representations, and Residual Training for Deep Learning-based CFD Simulation
123. ICML 2024LLM and Simulation as Bilevel Optimizers: A New Paradigm to Advance Physical Scientific Discovery
124. ICML 2024Mechanistic Neural Networks for Scientific Machine Learning
125. ICML 2024Operator SVD with Neural Networks via Nested Low-Rank Approximation
126. ICML 2024Orthogonal Bootstrap: Efficient Simulation of Input Uncertainty
127. ICML 2024Position: Embracing Negative Results in Machine Learning
128. ICML 2024Position: The Causal Revolution Needs Scientific Pragmatism
129. ICML 2024SciBench: Evaluating College-Level Scientific Problem-Solving Abilities of Large Language Models
130. ICML 2024Self-Alignment of Large Language Models via Monopolylogue-based Social Scene Simulation
131. ICML 2024Simulation of Graph Algorithms with Looped Transformers
132. ICML 2024Simulation-Based Inference with Quantile Regression
133. ICML 2024Simultaneous identification of models and parameters of scientific simulators
134. ICML 2024Smooth Min-Max Monotonic Networks
135. ICML 2024Variational Inference with Coverage Guarantees in Simulation-Based Inference
136. NeurIPS 2024A Simulation Benchmark for Autonomous Racing with Large-Scale Human Data
137. NeurIPS 2024Active Sequential Posterior Estimation for Sample-Efficient Simulation-Based Inference
138. NeurIPS 2024APEBench: A Benchmark for Autoregressive Neural Emulators of PDEs
139. NeurIPS 2024CiteME: Can Language Models Accurately Cite Scientific Claims?
140. NeurIPS 2024cPAPERS: A Dataset of Situated and Multimodal Interactive Conversations in Scientific Papers
141. NeurIPS 2024Fast Channel Simulation via Error-Correcting Codes
142. NeurIPS 2024Learning 3D Garment Animation from Trajectories of A Piece of Cloth
143. NeurIPS 2024NetworkGym: Reinforcement Learning Environments for Multi-Access Traffic Management in Network Simulation
144. NeurIPS 2024Neural Krylov Iteration for Accelerating Linear System Solving
145. NeurIPS 2024QGym: Scalable Simulation and Benchmarking of Queuing Network Controllers
146. NeurIPS 2024SceneDiffuser: Efficient and Controllable Driving Simulation Initialization and Rollout
147. NeurIPS 2024SciFIBench: Benchmarking Large Multimodal Models for Scientific Figure Interpretation
148. NeurIPS 2024Simulation-Free Training of Neural ODEs on Paired Data
149. NeurIPS 2024Sourcerer: Sample-based Maximum Entropy Source Distribution Estimation
150. NeurIPS 2024The Multimodal Universe: Enabling Large-Scale Machine Learning with 100 TB of Astronomical Scientific Data

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.