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

118 papers, page 2 of 3

51. CVPR 2025Zero-Shot Head Swapping in Real-World Scenarios
52. ICLR 2025Agent-to-Sim: Learning Interactive Behavior Models from Casual Longitudinal Videos
53. ICLR 2025Decoupled Finetuning for Domain Generalizable Semantic Segmentation
54. ICLR 2025Do Contemporary Causal Inference Models Capture Real-World Heterogeneity? Findings from a Large-Scale Benchmark
55. ICLR 2025Domain Guidance: A Simple Transfer Approach for a Pre-trained Diffusion Model
56. ICLR 2025Enabling Realtime Reinforcement Learning at Scale with Staggered Asynchronous Inference
57. ICLR 2025HAMSTER: Hierarchical Action Models for Open-World Robot Manipulation
58. ICLR 2025Handling Delay in Real-Time Reinforcement Learning
59. ICLR 2025Learn Your Reference Model for Real Good Alignment
60. ICLR 2025LOIRE: LifelOng learning on Incremental data via pre-trained language model gRowth Efficiently
61. ICLR 2025MEGA-Bench: Scaling Multimodal Evaluation to over 500 Real-World Tasks
62. ICLR 2025On the Benefits of Attribute-Driven Graph Domain Adaptation
63. ICLR 2025Overcoming False Illusions in Real-World Face Restoration with Multi-Modal Guided Diffusion Model
64. ICLR 2025Rapidly Adapting Policies to the Real-World via Simulation-Guided Fine-Tuning
65. ICLR 2025Semialgebraic Neural Networks: From roots to representations
66. ICLR 2025SRSA: Skill Retrieval and Adaptation for Robotic Assembly Tasks
67. ICLR 2025WildBench: Benchmarking LLMs with Challenging Tasks from Real Users in the Wild
68. ICML 2025BiMaCoSR: Binary One-Step Diffusion Model Leveraging Flexible Matrix Compression for Real Super-Resolution
69. ICML 2025Doubly Robust Conformalized Survival Analysis with Right-Censored Data
70. ICML 2025DragSolver: A Multi-Scale Transformer for Real-World Automotive Drag Coefficient Estimation
71. ICML 2025Enhancing Statistical Validity and Power in Hybrid Controlled Trials: A Randomization Inference Approach with Conformal Selective Borrowing
72. ICML 2025Flow-based Domain Randomization for Learning and Sequencing Robotic Skills
73. ICML 2025Function Encoders: A Principled Approach to Transfer Learning in Hilbert Spaces
74. ICML 2025G-Sim: Generative Simulations with Large Language Models and Gradient-Free Calibration
75. ICML 2025Geometric Median (GM) Matching for Robust k-Subset Selection from Noisy Data
76. ICML 2025HyperIV: Real-time Implied Volatility Smoothing
77. ICML 2025ITBench: Evaluating AI Agents across Diverse Real-World IT Automation Tasks
78. ICML 2025Learning Survival Distributions with the Asymmetric Laplace Distribution
79. ICML 2025No Soundness in the Real World: On the Challenges of the Verification of Deployed Neural Networks
80. ICML 2025Optimal Transfer Learning for Missing Not-at-Random Matrix Completion
81. ICML 2025Positive-unlabeled AUC Maximization under Covariate Shift
82. ICML 2025Sanity Checking Causal Representation Learning on a Simple Real-World System
83. ICML 2025Set Valued Predictions For Robust Domain Generalization
84. ICML 2025TLLC: Transfer Learning-based Label Completion for Crowdsourcing
85. ICML 2025Transfer Learning for Nonparametric Contextual Dynamic Pricing
86. NeurIPS 2025Algorithms and SQ Lower Bounds for Robustly Learning Real-valued Multi-Index Models
87. NeurIPS 2025Asymmetric Duos: Sidekicks Improve Uncertainty
88. NeurIPS 2025Balanced Active Inference
89. NeurIPS 2025Binary Quadratic Quantization: Beyond First-Order Quantization for Real-Valued Matrix Compression
90. NeurIPS 2025DEAL: Diffusion Evolution Adversarial Learning for Sim-to-Real Transfer
91. NeurIPS 2025DeceptionBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for AI Deception Behaviors in Real-world Scenarios
92. NeurIPS 2025Decompile-Bench: Million-Scale Binary-Source Function Pairs for Real-World Binary Decompilation
93. NeurIPS 2025Decomposing motor units through elimination for real-time intention driven assistive neurotechnology
94. NeurIPS 2025DGS-LRM: Real-Time Deformable 3D Gaussian Reconstruction From Monocular Videos
95. NeurIPS 2025DOVE: Efficient One-Step Diffusion Model for Real-World Video Super-Resolution
96. NeurIPS 2025Generalizable Domain Adaptation for Sim-and-Real Policy Co-Training
97. NeurIPS 2025Generalizable, real-time neural decoding with hybrid state-space models
98. NeurIPS 2025Inductive Domain Transfer In Misspecified Simulation-Based Inference
99. NeurIPS 2025IndustryEQA: Pushing the Frontiers of Embodied Question Answering in Industrial Scenarios
100. NeurIPS 2025Lattice Boltzmann Model for Learning Real-World Pixel Dynamicity

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.