Sim-to-Real papers, 2023–2026
Transfer and domain randomization
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 629 papers are tagged with this topic.
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.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 57 | 18 | 32 | 52 | 159 |
| 2024 | 34 | 20 | 37 | 57 | 148 |
| 2025 | 33 | 16 | 18 | 51 | 118 |
| 2026 | 75 | 33 | 33 | 63 | 204 |
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 5 of 5
- CVPR 2023NULL-Text Inversion for Editing Real Images Using Guided Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2023Phone2Proc: Bringing Robust Robots Into Our Chaotic World
- CVPR 2023PIDNet: A Real-Time Semantic Segmentation Network Inspired by PID Controllers
- CVPR 2023PoseFormerV2: Exploring Frequency Domain for Efficient and Robust 3D Human Pose Estimation
- CVPR 2023Propagate and Calibrate: Real-Time Passive Non-Line-of-Sight Tracking
- CVPR 2023Real-Time 6K Image Rescaling With Rate-Distortion Optimization
- CVPR 2023Real-Time Evaluation in Online Continual Learning: A New Hope
- CVPR 2023Real-Time Neural Light Field on Mobile Devices
- CVPR 2023RealImpact: A Dataset of Impact Sound Fields for Real Objects
- CVPR 2023RIDCP: Revitalizing Real Image Dehazing via High-Quality Codebook Priors
- CVPR 2023SCoDA: Domain Adaptive Shape Completion for Real Scans
- CVPR 2023Self-Supervised AutoFlow
- CVPR 2023Semi-Supervised Parametric Real-World Image Harmonization
- CVPR 2023sRGB Real Noise Synthesizing With Neighboring Correlation-Aware Noise Model
- CVPR 2023Symmetric Shape-Preserving Autoencoder for Unsupervised Real Scene Point Cloud Completion
- CVPR 2023The ObjectFolder Benchmark: Multisensory Learning With Neural and Real Objects
- CVPR 2023Tracking Multiple Deformable Objects in Egocentric Videos
- CVPR 2023Transfer Knowledge From Head to Tail: Uncertainty Calibration Under Long-Tailed Distribution
- CVPR 2023Transfer4D: A Framework for Frugal Motion Capture and Deformation Transfer
- CVPR 2023UV Volumes for Real-Time Rendering of Editable Free-View Human Performance
- CVPR 2023YOLOv7: Trainable Bag-of-Freebies Sets New State-of-the-Art for Real-Time Object Detectors
- CVPR 2023You Only Segment Once: Towards Real-Time Panoptic Segmentation
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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.