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

628 papers, page 7 of 13

301. NeurIPS 2025Inductive Domain Transfer In Misspecified Simulation-Based Inference
302. NeurIPS 2025IndustryEQA: Pushing the Frontiers of Embodied Question Answering in Industrial Scenarios
303. NeurIPS 2025Lattice Boltzmann Model for Learning Real-World Pixel Dynamicity
304. NeurIPS 2025Learning Generalizable Shape Completion with SIM(3) Equivariance
305. NeurIPS 2025MIRA: Medical Time Series Foundation Model for Real-World Health Data
306. NeurIPS 2025Mixed-Sample SGD: an End-to-end Analysis of Supervised Transfer Learning
307. NeurIPS 2025MM-Agent: LLM as Agents for Real-world Mathematical Modeling Problem
308. NeurIPS 2025Optical Coherence Tomography Harmonization with Anatomy-Guided Latent Metric Schrödinger Bridges
309. NeurIPS 2025Real-DRL: Teach and Learn in Reality
310. NeurIPS 2025Real-Time Hyper-Personalized Generative AI Should Be Regulated to Prevent the Rise of "Digital Heroin"
311. NeurIPS 2025Real-Time Scene-Adaptive Tone Mapping for High-Dynamic Range Object Detection
312. NeurIPS 2025Real-World Reinforcement Learning of Active Perception Behaviors
313. NeurIPS 2025Sim-LLM: Optimizing LLM Inference at the Edge through Inter-Task KV Reuse
314. NeurIPS 2025SPiDR: A Simple Approach for Zero-Shot Safety in Sim-to-Real Transfer
315. NeurIPS 2025SRSR: Enhancing Semantic Accuracy in Real-World Image Super-Resolution with Spatially Re-Focused Text-Conditioning
316. NeurIPS 2025TimE: A Multi-level Benchmark for Temporal Reasoning of LLMs in Real-World Scenarios
317. NeurIPS 2025ToF-IP: Time-of-Flight Enhanced Sparse Inertial Poser for Real-time Human Motion Capture
318. NeurIPS 2025Towards Syn-to-Real IQA: A Novel Perspective on Reshaping Synthetic Data Distributions
319. NeurIPS 2025Treasure Hunt: Real-time Targeting of the Long Tail using Training-Time Markers
320. NeurIPS 2025Wasserstein Transfer Learning
321. NeurIPS 2025YOLOv12: Attention-Centric Real-Time Object Detectors
322. CVPR 20244D Gaussian Splatting for Real-Time Dynamic Scene Rendering
323. CVPR 20244K4D: Real-Time 4D View Synthesis at 4K Resolution
324. CVPR 2024A Simple Recipe for Language-guided Domain Generalized Segmentation
325. CVPR 2024APISR: Anime Production Inspired Real-World Anime Super-Resolution
326. CVPR 2024Benchmarking Implicit Neural Representation and Geometric Rendering in Real-Time RGB-D SLAM
327. CVPR 2024BiPer: Binary Neural Networks using a Periodic Function
328. CVPR 2024CyberDemo: Augmenting Simulated Human Demonstration for Real-World Dexterous Manipulation
329. CVPR 2024Density-guided Translator Boosts Synthetic-to-Real Unsupervised Domain Adaptive Segmentation of 3D Point Clouds
330. CVPR 2024DETRs Beat YOLOs on Real-time Object Detection
331. CVPR 2024DiffusionPoser: Real-time Human Motion Reconstruction From Arbitrary Sparse Sensors Using Autoregressive Diffusion
332. CVPR 2024DriveTrack: A Benchmark for Long-Range Point Tracking in Real-World Videos
333. CVPR 2024Efficiently Assemble Normalization Layers and Regularization for Federated Domain Generalization
334. CVPR 2024EgoExoLearn: A Dataset for Bridging Asynchronous Ego- and Exo-centric View of Procedural Activities in Real World
335. CVPR 2024EventPS: Real-Time Photometric Stereo Using an Event Camera
336. CVPR 2024FreeMan: Towards Benchmarking 3D Human Pose Estimation under Real-World Conditions
337. CVPR 2024Fully Exploiting Every Real Sample: SuperPixel Sample Gradient Model Stealing
338. CVPR 2024Fully Geometric Panoramic Localization
339. CVPR 2024GPS-Gaussian: Generalizable Pixel-wise 3D Gaussian Splatting for Real-time Human Novel View Synthesis
340. CVPR 2024HDRFlow: Real-Time HDR Video Reconstruction with Large Motions
341. CVPR 2024HMD-Poser: On-Device Real-time Human Motion Tracking from Scalable Sparse Observations
342. CVPR 2024Holoported Characters: Real-time Free-viewpoint Rendering of Humans from Sparse RGB Cameras
343. CVPR 2024Human Gaussian Splatting: Real-time Rendering of Animatable Avatars
344. CVPR 2024HUNTER: Unsupervised Human-centric 3D Detection via Transferring Knowledge from Synthetic Instances to Real Scenes
345. CVPR 2024LASA: Instance Reconstruction from Real Scans using A Large-scale Aligned Shape Annotation Dataset
346. CVPR 2024Learning to Navigate Efficiently and Precisely in Real Environments
347. CVPR 2024LED: A Large-scale Real-world Paired Dataset for Event Camera Denoising
348. CVPR 2024LTM: Lightweight Textured Mesh Extraction and Refinement of Large Unbounded Scenes for Efficient Storage and Real-time Rendering
349. CVPR 2024Masked and Shuffled Blind Spot Denoising for Real-World Images
350. CVPR 2024MRFP: Learning Generalizable Semantic Segmentation from Sim-2-Real with Multi-Resolution Feature Perturbation

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.