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 8 of 13

351. CVPR 2024Navigate Beyond Shortcuts: Debiased Learning Through the Lens of Neural Collapse
352. CVPR 2024Neural Super-Resolution for Real-time Rendering with Radiance Demodulation
353. CVPR 2024PanoRecon: Real-Time Panoptic 3D Reconstruction from Monocular Video
354. CVPR 2024PARA-Drive: Parallelized Architecture for Real-time Autonomous Driving
355. CVPR 2024Photo-SLAM: Real-time Simultaneous Localization and Photorealistic Mapping for Monocular Stereo and RGB-D Cameras
356. CVPR 2024PLGSLAM: Progressive Neural Scene Represenation with Local to Global Bundle Adjustment
357. CVPR 2024PolarRec: Improving Radio Interferometric Data Reconstruction Using Polar Coordinates
358. CVPR 2024ProxyCap: Real-time Monocular Full-body Capture in World Space via Human-Centric Proxy-to-Motion Learning
359. CVPR 2024RadSimReal: Bridging the Gap Between Synthetic and Real Data in Radar Object Detection With Simulation
360. CVPR 2024RAM-Avatar: Real-time Photo-Realistic Avatar from Monocular Videos with Full-body Control
361. CVPR 2024RCooper: A Real-world Large-scale Dataset for Roadside Cooperative Perception
362. CVPR 2024Real-time Acquisition and Reconstruction of Dynamic Volumes with Neural Structured Illumination
363. CVPR 2024Real-Time Exposure Correction via Collaborative Transformations and Adaptive Sampling
364. CVPR 2024Real-Time Neural BRDF with Spherically Distributed Primitives
365. CVPR 2024Real-Time Simulated Avatar from Head-Mounted Sensors
366. CVPR 2024Real-World Efficient Blind Motion Deblurring via Blur Pixel Discretization
367. CVPR 2024RealCustom: Narrowing Real Text Word for Real-Time Open-Domain Text-to-Image Customization
368. CVPR 2024Relightable Gaussian Codec Avatars
369. CVPR 2024Revisiting the Domain Shift and Sample Uncertainty in Multi-source Active Domain Transfer
370. CVPR 2024Robust Synthetic-to-Real Transfer for Stereo Matching
371. CVPR 2024RTMO: Towards High-Performance One-Stage Real-Time Multi-Person Pose Estimation
372. CVPR 2024SIFU: Side-view Conditioned Implicit Function for Real-world Usable Clothed Human Reconstruction
373. CVPR 2024Spacetime Gaussian Feature Splatting for Real-Time Dynamic View Synthesis
374. CVPR 2024SplattingAvatar: Realistic Real-Time Human Avatars with Mesh-Embedded Gaussian Splatting
375. CVPR 2024Towards Robust 3D Pose Transfer with Adversarial Learning
376. CVPR 2024Universal Robustness via Median Randomized Smoothing for Real-World Super-Resolution
377. CVPR 2024URHand: Universal Relightable Hands
378. CVPR 2024UVEB: A Large-scale Benchmark and Baseline Towards Real-World Underwater Video Enhancement
379. ICLR 2024Adapting Large Language Models via Reading Comprehension
380. ICLR 2024Alice Benchmarks: Connecting Real World Re-Identification with the Synthetic
381. ICLR 2024AUGCAL: Improving Sim2Real Adaptation by Uncertainty Calibration on Augmented Synthetic Images
382. ICLR 2024Can We Evaluate Domain Adaptation Models Without Target-Domain Labels?
383. ICLR 2024Class Probability Matching with Calibrated Networks for Label Shift Adaption
384. ICLR 2024Continuous Invariance Learning
385. ICLR 2024Domain Randomization via Entropy Maximization
386. ICLR 2024Domain-Inspired Sharpness-Aware Minimization Under Domain Shifts
387. ICLR 2024DyST: Towards Dynamic Neural Scene Representations on Real-World Videos
388. ICLR 2024Exploring the Promise and Limits of Real-Time Recurrent Learning
389. ICLR 2024Extending Power of Nature from Binary to Real-Valued Graph Learning in Real World
390. ICLR 2024Goodhart's Law in Reinforcement Learning
391. ICLR 2024HYPO: Hyperspherical Out-Of-Distribution Generalization
392. ICLR 2024Improving Non-Transferable Representation Learning by Harnessing Content and Style
393. ICLR 2024Real-Fake: Effective Training Data Synthesis Through Distribution Matching
394. ICLR 2024Real-time Photorealistic Dynamic Scene Representation and Rendering with 4D Gaussian Splatting
395. ICLR 2024ReTaSA: A Nonparametric Functional Estimation Approach for Addressing Continuous Target Shift
396. ICLR 2024SEAL: A Framework for Systematic Evaluation of Real-World Super-Resolution
397. ICLR 2024SWE-bench: Can Language Models Resolve Real-world Github Issues?
398. ICLR 2024ToolLLM: Facilitating Large Language Models to Master 16000+ Real-world APIs
399. ICML 2024A Global Geometric Analysis of Maximal Coding Rate Reduction
400. ICML 2024Achieving Margin Maximization Exponentially Fast via Progressive Norm Rescaling

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.