Sim-to-Real papers, 2023–2026

Key findings

• Sim-to-Real went from 159 papers in 2023 to 204 in 2026, roughly 1.3x in three years.
• CVPR publishes the most Sim-to-Real work: 223 papers from 2023 to 2026, 35% of the four-venue total.
• The fastest-growing overlap is with Multimodal LLMs: papers tagged with both rose from 2 in 2023 to 27 in 2026.
• Among the 5 topics under Robotics and Embodied AI, it ranks #3 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Humanoid Control, is up 3.8x versus 1.3x here.

Representative papers

Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up

• NeurIPS 2026AET-Bench: Pixel-Accurate Atomic Tomography Is Not Atom-Accurate
• ICML 2026RTInfer: Real-Time Inference of Multiple DNNs on Edge GPUs
• ICLR 2026Manipulation as in Simulation: Enabling Accurate Geometry Perception in Robots
• CVPR 2026AnthroTAP Learning Point Tracking with Real-World Motion
• NeurIPS 2025Algorithms and SQ Lower Bounds for Robustly Learning Real-valued Multi-Index Models
• ICML 2025HyperIV: Real-time Implied Volatility Smoothing
• ICLR 2025Do Contemporary Causal Inference Models Capture Real-World Heterogeneity? Findings from a Large-Scale Benchmark
• CVPR 2025Analyzing the Synthetic-to-Real Domain Gap in 3D Hand Pose Estimation
• NeurIPS 2024EgoSim: An Egocentric Multi-view Simulator and Real Dataset for Body-worn Cameras during Motion and Activity
• ICML 2024A Global Geometric Analysis of Maximal Coding Rate Reduction
• ICLR 2024Extending Power of Nature from Binary to Real-Valued Graph Learning in Real World
• CVPR 2024Density-guided Translator Boosts Synthetic-to-Real Unsupervised Domain Adaptive Segmentation of 3D Point Clouds
• NeurIPS 2023[Re] Pure Noise to the Rescue of Insufficient Data
• ICML 2023Adversarially Robust PAC Learnability of Real-Valued Functions
• ICLR 2023Provable Sim-to-real Transfer in Continuous Domain with Partial Observations
• CVPR 2023Cloud-Device Collaborative Adaptation to Continual Changing Environments in the Real-World
• NeurIPS 2026Coarse-to-Real: Generative Rendering for Populated Dynamic Scenes
• ICML 2026Server-Proximal Aggregation for Federated Domain-Incremental Learning under Partial Participation: Task-Uniform Convergence and Backward Transfer
• ICLR 2026PatchRefiner V2: Fast and Lightweight Real-Domain High-Resolution Metric Depth Estimation
• CVPR 2026BiProLoRA Bilevel Prompt LoRA for Real Scene Recovery

All Sim-to-Real papers

628 papers, page 10 of 13

451. NeurIPS 2024PertEval: Unveiling Real Knowledge Capacity of LLMs with Knowledge-Invariant Perturbations
452. NeurIPS 2024Re-assembling the past: The RePAIR dataset and benchmark for real world 2D and 3D puzzle solving
453. NeurIPS 2024Real-time Core-Periphery Guided ViT with Smart Data Layout Selection on Mobile Devices
454. NeurIPS 2024Real-Time Recurrent Learning using Trace Units in Reinforcement Learning
455. NeurIPS 2024Real-world Image Dehazing with Coherence-based Pseudo Labeling and Cooperative Unfolding Network
456. NeurIPS 2024realSEUDO for real-time calcium imaging analysis
457. NeurIPS 2024RWKU: Benchmarking Real-World Knowledge Unlearning for Large Language Models
458. NeurIPS 2024Scaling laws for learning with real and surrogate data
459. NeurIPS 2024Segmenting Watermarked Texts From Language Models
460. NeurIPS 2024Self-Healing Machine Learning: A Framework for Autonomous Adaptation in Real-World Environments
461. NeurIPS 2024SpikeReveal: Unlocking Temporal Sequences from Real Blurry Inputs with Spike Streams
462. NeurIPS 2024SpreadsheetBench: Towards Challenging Real World Spreadsheet Manipulation
463. NeurIPS 2024Template-free Articulated Gaussian Splatting for Real-time Reposable Dynamic View Synthesis
464. NeurIPS 2024The Unmet Promise of Synthetic Training Images: Using Retrieved Real Images Performs Better
465. NeurIPS 2024Transfer Learning for Diffusion Models
466. NeurIPS 2024Transfer Learning with Informative Priors: Simple Baselines Better than Previously Reported
467. NeurIPS 2024Transferring disentangled representations: bridging the gap between synthetic and real images
468. NeurIPS 2024WikiContradict: A Benchmark for Evaluating LLMs on Real-World Knowledge Conflicts from Wikipedia
469. NeurIPS 2024Wild-GS: Real-Time Novel View Synthesis from Unconstrained Photo Collections
470. CVPR 2023A Data-Based Perspective on Transfer Learning
471. CVPR 2023A New Benchmark: On the Utility of Synthetic Data With Blender for Bare Supervised Learning and Downstream Domain Adaptation
472. CVPR 2023Adversarially Masking Synthetic To Mimic Real: Adaptive Noise Injection for Point Cloud Segmentation Adaptation
473. CVPR 2023Affection: Learning Affective Explanations for Real-World Visual Data
474. CVPR 2023Auto-CARD: Efficient and Robust Codec Avatar Driving for Real-Time Mobile Telepresence
475. CVPR 2023Blur Interpolation Transformer for Real-World Motion From Blur
476. CVPR 2023CAP-VSTNet: Content Affinity Preserved Versatile Style Transfer
477. CVPR 2023Center Focusing Network for Real-Time LiDAR Panoptic Segmentation
478. CVPR 2023Cloud-Device Collaborative Adaptation to Continual Changing Environments in the Real-World
479. CVPR 2023Co-SLAM: Joint Coordinate and Sparse Parametric Encodings for Neural Real-Time SLAM
480. CVPR 2023Common Pets in 3D: Dynamic New-View Synthesis of Real-Life Deformable Categories
481. CVPR 2023ContraNeRF: Generalizable Neural Radiance Fields for Synthetic-to-Real Novel View Synthesis via Contrastive Learning
482. CVPR 2023Distilling Neural Fields for Real-Time Articulated Shape Reconstruction
483. CVPR 2023DyNCA: Real-Time Dynamic Texture Synthesis Using Neural Cellular Automata
484. CVPR 2023Event-Based Blurry Frame Interpolation Under Blind Exposure
485. CVPR 2023Fantastic Breaks: A Dataset of Paired 3D Scans of Real-World Broken Objects and Their Complete Counterparts
486. CVPR 2023FastInst: A Simple Query-Based Model for Real-Time Instance Segmentation
487. CVPR 2023Four-View Geometry With Unknown Radial Distortion
488. CVPR 2023H2ONet: Hand-Occlusion-and-Orientation-Aware Network for Real-Time 3D Hand Mesh Reconstruction
489. CVPR 2023HairStep: Transfer Synthetic to Real Using Strand and Depth Maps for Single-View 3D Hair Modeling
490. CVPR 2023Joint HDR Denoising and Fusion: A Real-World Mobile HDR Image Dataset
491. CVPR 2023Latency Matters: Real-Time Action Forecasting Transformer
492. CVPR 2023Learning Geometric-Aware Properties in 2D Representation Using Lightweight CAD Models, or Zero Real 3D Pairs
493. CVPR 2023Learning Neural Duplex Radiance Fields for Real-Time View Synthesis
494. CVPR 2023LG-BPN: Local and Global Blind-Patch Network for Self-Supervised Real-World Denoising
495. CVPR 2023Markerless Camera-to-Robot Pose Estimation via Self-Supervised Sim-to-Real Transfer
496. CVPR 2023Modernizing Old Photos Using Multiple References via Photorealistic Style Transfer
497. CVPR 2023Multi-View Inverse Rendering for Large-Scale Real-World Indoor Scenes
498. CVPR 2023NeRFInvertor: High Fidelity NeRF-GAN Inversion for Single-Shot Real Image Animation
499. CVPR 2023NoPe-NeRF: Optimising Neural Radiance Field With No Pose Prior
500. CVPR 2023NULL-Text Inversion for Editing Real Images Using Guided Diffusion Models

FAQ

How many Sim-to-Real papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?

629 in total: 159 in 2023, 148 in 2024, 118 in 2025, 204 in 2026.

How many Sim-to-Real papers are at NeurIPS 2026?

NeurIPS 2026 has 75 Sim-to-Real papers, versus 33 the year before.

How many Sim-to-Real papers are at ICLR 2026?

ICLR 2026 has 33 Sim-to-Real papers, versus 16 the year before.

How many Sim-to-Real papers are at ICML 2026?

ICML 2026 has 33 Sim-to-Real papers, versus 18 the year before.

How many Sim-to-Real papers are at CVPR 2026?

CVPR 2026 has 63 Sim-to-Real papers, versus 51 the year before.

Which conference publishes the most Sim-to-Real papers?

CVPR, with 223 papers from 2023 to 2026.