Scientific Simulation papers, 2023–2026
PDE and simulation acceleration
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 167 papers are tagged with this topic.
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.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 16 |
| 2024 | 16 | 1 | 15 | 6 | 38 |
| 2025 | 24 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 45 |
| 2026 | 25 | 10 | 25 | 8 | 68 |
Representative papers
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- 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
20 papers, page 1 of 1
- ICLR 2026AstaBench: Rigorous Benchmarking of AI Agents with a Scientific Research Suite
- ICLR 2026Charts Are Not Images: On the Challenges of Scientific Chart Editing
- ICLR 2026CoT-Evo: Evolutionary Distillation of Chain-of-Thought for Scientific Reasoning
- ICLR 2026Geometric Constraints for Small Language Models to Understand and Expand Scientific Taxonomies
- ICLR 2026Locally Subspace-Informed Neural Operators for Efficient Multiscale PDE Solving
- ICLR 2026Refine Now, Query Fast: A Decoupled Refinement Paradigm for Implicit Neural Fields
- ICLR 2026SCI-Verifier: Scientific Verifier with Thinking
- ICLR 2026Speculative Actions: A Lossless Framework for Faster AI Agents
- ICLR 2026The Seismic Wavefield Common Task Framework
- ICLR 2026Towards a Certificate of Trust: Task-Aware OOD Detection for Scientific AI
- ICLR 2025Diff-PIC: Revolutionizing Particle-In-Cell Nuclear Fusion Simulation with Diffusion Models
- ICLR 2025Neural Fluid Simulation on Geometric Surfaces
- ICLR 2025Robust Simulation-Based Inference under Missing Data via Neural Processes
- ICLR 2025Semialgebraic Neural Networks: From roots to representations
- ICLR 2025Wavelet Diffusion Neural Operator
- ICLR 2024BENO: Boundary-embedded Neural Operators for Elliptic PDEs
- ICLR 2023EAGLE: Large-scale Learning of Turbulent Fluid Dynamics with Mesh Transformers
- ICLR 2023Factorized Fourier Neural Operators
- ICLR 2023Learning Controllable Adaptive Simulation for Multi-resolution Physics
- ICLR 2023Mind's Eye: Grounded Language Model Reasoning through Simulation
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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.