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 13 of 13

601. NeurIPS 2023MixFormerV2: Efficient Fully Transformer Tracking
602. NeurIPS 2023MomentDiff: Generative Video Moment Retrieval from Random to Real
603. NeurIPS 2023On student-teacher deviations in distillation: does it pay to disobey?
604. NeurIPS 2023On the Convergence to a Global Solution of Shuffling-Type Gradient Algorithms
605. NeurIPS 2023OpenIllumination: A Multi-Illumination Dataset for Inverse Rendering Evaluation on Real Objects
606. NeurIPS 2023Optimal approximation using complex-valued neural networks
607. NeurIPS 2023Optimization or Architecture: How to Hack Kalman Filtering
608. NeurIPS 2023PackQViT: Faster Sub-8-bit Vision Transformers via Full and Packed Quantization on the Mobile
609. NeurIPS 2023Real-Time Motion Prediction via Heterogeneous Polyline Transformer with Relative Pose Encoding
610. NeurIPS 2023Real-World Image Super-Resolution as Multi-Task Learning
611. NeurIPS 2023RL-based Stateful Neural Adaptive Sampling and Denoising for Real-Time Path Tracing
612. NeurIPS 2023Robust Lipschitz Bandits to Adversarial Corruptions
613. NeurIPS 2023Saddle-to-Saddle Dynamics in Diagonal Linear Networks
614. NeurIPS 2023Sharpness Minimization Algorithms Do Not Only Minimize Sharpness To Achieve Better Generalization
615. NeurIPS 2023Spuriosity Didn’t Kill the Classifier: Using Invariant Predictions to Harness Spurious Features
616. NeurIPS 2023Structured Neural-PI Control with End-to-End Stability and Output Tracking Guarantees
617. NeurIPS 2023Subspace Identification for Multi-Source Domain Adaptation
618. NeurIPS 2023Synthetic-to-Real Pose Estimation with Geometric Reconstruction
619. NeurIPS 2023The s-value: evaluating stability with respect to distributional shifts
620. NeurIPS 2023The Waymo Open Sim Agents Challenge
621. NeurIPS 2023Towards a Unified Analysis of Kernel-based Methods Under Covariate Shift
622. NeurIPS 2023Trading-off price for data quality to achieve fair online allocation
623. NeurIPS 2023trajdata: A Unified Interface to Multiple Human Trajectory Datasets
624. NeurIPS 2023UDC-SIT: A Real-World Dataset for Under-Display Cameras
625. NeurIPS 2023Uncovering Meanings of Embeddings via Partial Orthogonality
626. NeurIPS 2023Unexpected Improvements to Expected Improvement for Bayesian Optimization
627. NeurIPS 2023UniTSFace: Unified Threshold Integrated Sample-to-Sample Loss for Face Recognition
628. NeurIPS 2023Unleashing the Power of Randomization in Auditing Differentially Private ML

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.