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

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51. ICML 2025Transfer Learning for Nonparametric Contextual Dynamic Pricing
52. ICML 2024A Global Geometric Analysis of Maximal Coding Rate Reduction
53. ICML 2024Achieving Margin Maximization Exponentially Fast via Progressive Norm Rescaling
54. ICML 2024Adaptive Conformal Inference by Betting
55. ICML 2024Adversarially Robust Hypothesis Transfer Learning
56. ICML 2024ALERT-Transformer: Bridging Asynchronous and Synchronous Machine Learning for Real-Time Event-based Spatio-Temporal Data
57. ICML 2024Ameliorate Spurious Correlations in Dataset Condensation
58. ICML 2024Automating the Selection of Proxy Variables of Unmeasured Confounders
59. ICML 2024CCM: Real-Time Controllable Visual Content Creation Using Text-to-Image Consistency Models
60. ICML 2024Centralized Selection with Preferences in the Presence of Biases
61. ICML 2024Copula-Nested Spectral Kernel Network
62. ICML 2024Deletion-Anticipative Data Selection with a Limited Budget
63. ICML 2024Distributionally Robust Data Valuation
64. ICML 2024Domain Generalisation via Imprecise Learning
65. ICML 2024Domain-wise Data Acquisition to Improve Performance under Distribution Shift
66. ICML 2024Dynamic Correlation Clustering in Sublinear Update Time
67. ICML 2024Dynamic Facility Location in High Dimensional Euclidean Spaces
68. ICML 2024Equilibrium of Data Markets with Externality
69. ICML 2024EvIL: Evolution Strategies for Generalisable Imitation Learning
70. ICML 2024EvoluNet: Advancing Dynamic Non-IID Transfer Learning on Graphs
71. ICML 2024Fourier Controller Networks for Real-Time Decision-Making in Embodied Learning
72. ICML 2024GATE: How to Keep Out Intrusive Neighbors
73. ICML 2024Generalization Analysis of Deep Non-linear Matrix Completion
74. ICML 2024Learning to Continually Learn with the Bayesian Principle
75. ICML 2024Minimum-Norm Interpolation Under Covariate Shift
76. ICML 2024Offline Training of Language Model Agents with Functions as Learnable Weights
77. ICML 2024On Hypothesis Transfer Learning of Functional Linear Models
78. ICML 2024On the Tractability of SHAP Explanations under Markovian Distributions
79. ICML 2024Pluvial Flood Emulation with Hydraulics-informed Message Passing
80. ICML 2024Position: Automatic Environment Shaping is the Next Frontier in RL
81. ICML 2024Rethinking Transformers in Solving POMDPs
82. ICML 2024Smoothness Adaptive Hypothesis Transfer Learning
83. ICML 2024State-Free Inference of State-Space Models: The *Transfer Function* Approach
84. ICML 2024Superpoint Gaussian Splatting for Real-Time High-Fidelity Dynamic Scene Reconstruction
85. ICML 2024Tell, Don't Show: Language Guidance Eases Transfer Across Domains in Images and Videos
86. ICML 2024The Illusion of State in State-Space Models
87. ICML 2024TravelPlanner: A Benchmark for Real-World Planning with Language Agents
88. ICML 2024When is Transfer Learning Possible?
89. ICML 2023"Why did the Model Fail?": Attributing Model Performance Changes to Distribution Shifts
90. ICML 2023Adversarially Robust PAC Learnability of Real-Valued Functions
91. ICML 2023Approximation and Estimation Ability of Transformers for Sequence-to-Sequence Functions with Infinite Dimensional Input
92. ICML 2023Bidirectional Looking with A Novel Double Exponential Moving Average to Adaptive and Non-adaptive Momentum Optimizers
93. ICML 2023Conformalization of Sparse Generalized Linear Models
94. ICML 2023Constrained Monotonic Neural Networks
95. ICML 2023Contextual Conservative Interleaving Bandits
96. ICML 2023Coupled Variational Autoencoder
97. ICML 2023Crafting Training Degradation Distribution for the Accuracy-Generalization Trade-off in Real-World Super-Resolution
98. ICML 2023DeSRA: Detect and Delete the Artifacts of GAN-based Real-World Super-Resolution Models
99. ICML 2023Distributed Stochastic Gradient Descent: Nonconvexity, Nonsmoothness, and Convergence to Local Minima
100. ICML 2023Drug Discovery under Covariate Shift with Domain-Informed Prior Distributions over Functions

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.