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. CVPR 2024SIFU: Side-view Conditioned Implicit Function for Real-world Usable Clothed Human Reconstruction
52. CVPR 2024Spacetime Gaussian Feature Splatting for Real-Time Dynamic View Synthesis
53. CVPR 2024SplattingAvatar: Realistic Real-Time Human Avatars with Mesh-Embedded Gaussian Splatting
54. CVPR 2024Towards Robust 3D Pose Transfer with Adversarial Learning
55. CVPR 2024Universal Robustness via Median Randomized Smoothing for Real-World Super-Resolution
56. CVPR 2024URHand: Universal Relightable Hands
57. CVPR 2024UVEB: A Large-scale Benchmark and Baseline Towards Real-World Underwater Video Enhancement
58. ICLR 2024Adapting Large Language Models via Reading Comprehension
59. ICLR 2024Alice Benchmarks: Connecting Real World Re-Identification with the Synthetic
60. ICLR 2024AUGCAL: Improving Sim2Real Adaptation by Uncertainty Calibration on Augmented Synthetic Images
61. ICLR 2024Can We Evaluate Domain Adaptation Models Without Target-Domain Labels?
62. ICLR 2024Class Probability Matching with Calibrated Networks for Label Shift Adaption
63. ICLR 2024Continuous Invariance Learning
64. ICLR 2024Domain Randomization via Entropy Maximization
65. ICLR 2024Domain-Inspired Sharpness-Aware Minimization Under Domain Shifts
66. ICLR 2024DyST: Towards Dynamic Neural Scene Representations on Real-World Videos
67. ICLR 2024Exploring the Promise and Limits of Real-Time Recurrent Learning
68. ICLR 2024Extending Power of Nature from Binary to Real-Valued Graph Learning in Real World
69. ICLR 2024Goodhart's Law in Reinforcement Learning
70. ICLR 2024HYPO: Hyperspherical Out-Of-Distribution Generalization
71. ICLR 2024Improving Non-Transferable Representation Learning by Harnessing Content and Style
72. ICLR 2024Real-Fake: Effective Training Data Synthesis Through Distribution Matching
73. ICLR 2024Real-time Photorealistic Dynamic Scene Representation and Rendering with 4D Gaussian Splatting
74. ICLR 2024ReTaSA: A Nonparametric Functional Estimation Approach for Addressing Continuous Target Shift
75. ICLR 2024SEAL: A Framework for Systematic Evaluation of Real-World Super-Resolution
76. ICLR 2024SWE-bench: Can Language Models Resolve Real-world Github Issues?
77. ICLR 2024ToolLLM: Facilitating Large Language Models to Master 16000+ Real-world APIs
78. ICML 2024A Global Geometric Analysis of Maximal Coding Rate Reduction
79. ICML 2024Achieving Margin Maximization Exponentially Fast via Progressive Norm Rescaling
80. ICML 2024Adaptive Conformal Inference by Betting
81. ICML 2024Adversarially Robust Hypothesis Transfer Learning
82. ICML 2024ALERT-Transformer: Bridging Asynchronous and Synchronous Machine Learning for Real-Time Event-based Spatio-Temporal Data
83. ICML 2024Ameliorate Spurious Correlations in Dataset Condensation
84. ICML 2024Automating the Selection of Proxy Variables of Unmeasured Confounders
85. ICML 2024CCM: Real-Time Controllable Visual Content Creation Using Text-to-Image Consistency Models
86. ICML 2024Centralized Selection with Preferences in the Presence of Biases
87. ICML 2024Copula-Nested Spectral Kernel Network
88. ICML 2024Deletion-Anticipative Data Selection with a Limited Budget
89. ICML 2024Distributionally Robust Data Valuation
90. ICML 2024Domain Generalisation via Imprecise Learning
91. ICML 2024Domain-wise Data Acquisition to Improve Performance under Distribution Shift
92. ICML 2024Dynamic Correlation Clustering in Sublinear Update Time
93. ICML 2024Dynamic Facility Location in High Dimensional Euclidean Spaces
94. ICML 2024Equilibrium of Data Markets with Externality
95. ICML 2024EvIL: Evolution Strategies for Generalisable Imitation Learning
96. ICML 2024EvoluNet: Advancing Dynamic Non-IID Transfer Learning on Graphs
97. ICML 2024Fourier Controller Networks for Real-Time Decision-Making in Embodied Learning
98. ICML 2024GATE: How to Keep Out Intrusive Neighbors
99. ICML 2024Generalization Analysis of Deep Non-linear Matrix Completion
100. ICML 2024Learning to Continually Learn with the Bayesian Principle

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.