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

222 papers, page 2 of 5

51. CVPR 2026Too Vivid to Be Real Benchmarking and Calibrating Generative Color
52. CVPR 2026Toward Real-world Infrared Image Super-Resolution A Unified Autoregressive Framework and
53. CVPR 2026Towards Real-World Document Parsing via Realistic Scene Synthesis and Document-Aware
54. CVPR 2026U-Mind A Unified Framework for Real-Time Multimodal Interaction with Audiovisual
55. CVPR 2026UniMERNet A Universal Network for Real-World Mathematical Expression Recognition
56. CVPR 2026UniPR Unified Object-level Real-to-Sim Perception and Reconstruction from a Single
57. CVPR 2026UniSH Unifying Scene and Human Reconstruction in a Feed-Forward Pass
58. CVPR 2026VideoWorld 2 Learning Transferable Knowledge from Real-world Videos
59. CVPR 2026VIRAL Visual Sim-to-Real at Scale for Humanoid Loco-Manipulation
60. CVPR 2026WorldLens Full-Spectrum Evaluations of Driving World Models in Real World
61. CVPR 2026XSeg A Large-scale X-ray Contraband Segmentation Benchmark For Real-World Security
62. CVPR 2026YOLO-ULM Ultra-Lightweight Models for Real-Time Object Detection
63. CVPR 2025All-directional Disparity Estimation for Real-world QPD Images
64. CVPR 2025Analyzing the Synthetic-to-Real Domain Gap in 3D Hand Pose Estimation
65. CVPR 2025Benchmarking Object Detectors under Real-World Distribution Shifts in Satellite Imagery
66. CVPR 2025Boosting Domain Incremental Learning: Selecting the Optimal Parameters is All You Need
67. CVPR 2025CoA: Towards Real Image Dehazing via Compression-and-Adaptation
68. CVPR 2025DiSRT-In-Bed: Diffusion-Based Sim-to-Real Transfer Framework for In-Bed Human Mesh Recovery
69. CVPR 2025Efficient Video Super-Resolution for Real-time Rendering with Decoupled G-buffer Guidance
70. CVPR 2025EventSplat: 3D Gaussian Splatting from Moving Event Cameras for Real-time Rendering
71. CVPR 2025From Laboratory to Real World: A New Benchmark Towards Privacy-Preserved Visible-Infrared Person Re-Identification
72. CVPR 2025Go-with-the-Flow: Motion-Controllable Video Diffusion Models Using Real-Time Warped Noise
73. CVPR 2025Golden Cudgel Network for Real-Time Semantic Segmentation
74. CVPR 2025Hearing Anywhere in Any Environment
75. CVPR 2025HELVIPAD: A Real-World Dataset for Omnidirectional Stereo Depth Estimation
76. CVPR 2025Is this Generated Person Existed in Real-world? Fine-grained Detecting and Calibrating Abnormal Human-body
77. CVPR 2025JiSAM: Alleviate Labeling Burden and Corner Case Problems in Autonomous Driving via Minimal Real-World Data
78. CVPR 2025LP-Diff: Towards Improved Restoration of Real-World Degraded License Plate
79. CVPR 2025LUCAS: Layered Universal Codec Avatars
80. CVPR 2025MASt3R-SLAM: Real-Time Dense SLAM with 3D Reconstruction Priors
81. CVPR 2025METASCENES: Towards Automated Replica Creation for Real-world 3D Scans
82. CVPR 2025MobilePortrait: Real-Time One-Shot Neural Head Avatars on Mobile Devices
83. CVPR 2025OmniStereo: Real-time Omnidireactional Depth Estimation with Multiview Fisheye Cameras
84. CVPR 2025OmniStyle: Filtering High Quality Style Transfer Data at Scale
85. CVPR 2025Potential Field Based Deep Metric Learning
86. CVPR 2025Quaffure: Real-Time Quasi-Static Neural Hair Simulation
87. CVPR 2025QuartDepth: Post-Training Quantization for Real-Time Depth Estimation on the Edge
88. CVPR 2025Rashomon Sets for Prototypical-Part Networks: Editing Interpretable Models in Real-Time
89. CVPR 2025Real-time Free-view Human Rendering from Sparse-view RGB Videos using Double Unprojected Textures
90. CVPR 2025Real-time High-fidelity Gaussian Human Avatars with Position-based Interpolation of Spatially Distributed MLPs
91. CVPR 2025Remote Photoplethysmography in Real-World and Extreme Lighting Scenarios
92. CVPR 2025RENO: Real-Time Neural Compression for 3D LiDAR Point Clouds
93. CVPR 2025REWIND: Real-Time Egocentric Whole-Body Motion Diffusion with Exemplar-Based Identity Conditioning
94. CVPR 2025SAT-HMR: Real-Time Multi-Person 3D Mesh Estimation via Scale-Adaptive Tokens
95. CVPR 2025Seeing A 3D World in A Grain of Sand
96. CVPR 2025SemanticDraw: Towards Real-Time Interactive Content Creation from Image Diffusion Models
97. CVPR 2025Sim-to-Real Causal Transfer: A Metric Learning Approach to Causally-Aware Interaction Representations
98. CVPR 2025SLAM3R: Real-Time Dense Scene Reconstruction from Monocular RGB Videos
99. CVPR 2025SnowMaster: Comprehensive Real-world Image Desnowing via MLLM with Multi-Model Feedback Optimization
100. CVPR 2025Sparse Voxels Rasterization: Real-time High-fidelity Radiance Field Rendering

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.