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. NeurIPS 2026AnchorWorld: Embodied Egocentric World Simulation with View-based Evolution Customization
2. NeurIPS 2026Auditing AI peer reviewers: a dose-response and false-positive benchmark on real scientific papers
3. NeurIPS 2026AutoScientists: Self-Organizing Agent Teams for Long-Running Scientific Experimentation
4. NeurIPS 2026Bifurcation Models: Learning Set-Valued Solution Maps with Weight-Tied Dynamics
5. NeurIPS 2026Bridging the Simulation-to-Experiment Gap with Adversarial Distribution Alignment
6. NeurIPS 2026Calibrating Scientific Foundation Models with Inference-Time Stochastic Attention
7. NeurIPS 2026Can AI Agents Synthesize Scientific Conclusions?
8. NeurIPS 2026Cauchy Scientific Networks: Loss–Architecture Alignment and Its Limit
9. NeurIPS 2026Closing the Approximation Gap in Simulation-free Latent SDEs
10. NeurIPS 2026Controllable User Simulation
11. NeurIPS 2026DiscoverPhysics: Benchmarking LLMs for out-of-the-box scientific thinking
12. NeurIPS 2026Don't Match the Noise: Distribution Matching under Unknown Measurement Error with an Audit Sample
13. NeurIPS 2026Macrocanonical Generator Networks: data-efficient neural surrogates for amortized physics simulation
14. NeurIPS 2026PDE-PFN: Prior-Data Fitted Neural PDE Solver
15. NeurIPS 2026PhyTS: A Benchmark for Scientific Time Series
16. NeurIPS 2026PRISM: Programming Interactive Scenes from Monocular Images for Embodied Simulation
17. NeurIPS 2026Reconstructing the Vocal Tract with Differentiable Acoustic Simulation
18. NeurIPS 2026Robust Amortized Simulation-Based Inference via Learned Error Models
19. NeurIPS 2026Scaling Storm-Resolving Atmospheric AI Simulation to the Entire Planet
20. NeurIPS 2026SciR: A Controllable Benchmark for Scientific Reasoning in LLMs
21. NeurIPS 2026SIGA: Scientific Simulation Coding Agent Adapter- A Geophysics Case Study
22. NeurIPS 2026Symplectic Parallel Scan: A Neural Hamiltonian Framework for Accelerated Scientific Simulation
23. NeurIPS 2026Theoretical guidelines for annealed Langevin dynamics in compositional simulation-based inference
24. NeurIPS 2026Two Phase Rapid Simulation Based Inference with Differentiable Simulators
25. NeurIPS 2026WTF?! Simulation-Free Reinforcement Learning with Wasserstein-Tilted Flow Maps
26. NeurIPS 2025A Plug-and-Play Query Synthesis Active Learning Framework for Neural PDE Solvers
27. NeurIPS 2025AI-Researcher: Autonomous Scientific Innovation
28. NeurIPS 2025Attention on the Sphere
29. NeurIPS 2025Breaking the Discretization Barrier of Continuous Physics Simulation Learning
30. NeurIPS 2025Bubbleformer: Forecasting Boiling with Transformers
31. NeurIPS 2025CoLT: The conditional localization test for assessing the accuracy of neural posterior estimates
32. NeurIPS 2025Common Task Framework For a Critical Evaluation of Scientific Machine Learning Algorithms
33. NeurIPS 2025Connectome-Based Modelling Reveals Orientation Maps in the Drosophila Optic Lobe
34. NeurIPS 2025Diffusion-Based Hierarchical Graph Neural Networks for Simulating Nonlinear Solid Mechanics
35. NeurIPS 2025Effortless, Simulation-Efficient Bayesian Inference using Tabular Foundation Models
36. NeurIPS 2025From Kolmogorov to Cauchy: Shallow XNet Surpasses KANs
37. NeurIPS 2025Integration Matters for Learning PDEs with Backwards SDEs
38. NeurIPS 2025LabUtopia: High-Fidelity Simulation and Hierarchical Benchmark for Scientific Embodied Agents
39. NeurIPS 2025Learning Sparse Approximate Inverse Preconditioners for Conjugate Gradient Solvers on GPUs
40. NeurIPS 2025ML4CFD Competition: Results and Retrospective Analysis
41. NeurIPS 2025NeurIPS should lead scientific consensus on AI policy
42. NeurIPS 2025Non-stationary Equivariant Graph Neural Networks for Physical Dynamics Simulation
43. NeurIPS 2025Position: Biology is the Challenge Physics-Informed ML Needs to Evolve
44. NeurIPS 2025Prompting as Scientific Inquiry
45. NeurIPS 2025ReSim: Reliable World Simulation for Autonomous Driving
46. NeurIPS 2025SciArena: An Open Evaluation Platform for Non-Verifiable Scientific Literature-Grounded Tasks
47. NeurIPS 2025SimSort: A Data-Driven Framework for Spike Sorting by Large-Scale Electrophysiology Simulation
48. NeurIPS 2025SonoGym: High Performance Simulation for Challenging Surgical Tasks with Robotic Ultrasound
49. NeurIPS 2025WorldMem: Long-term Consistent World Simulation with Memory
50. NeurIPS 2024A Simulation Benchmark for Autonomous Racing with Large-Scale Human 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.