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 9 of 13

401. ICML 2024Adaptive Conformal Inference by Betting
402. ICML 2024Adversarially Robust Hypothesis Transfer Learning
403. ICML 2024ALERT-Transformer: Bridging Asynchronous and Synchronous Machine Learning for Real-Time Event-based Spatio-Temporal Data
404. ICML 2024Ameliorate Spurious Correlations in Dataset Condensation
405. ICML 2024Automating the Selection of Proxy Variables of Unmeasured Confounders
406. ICML 2024CCM: Real-Time Controllable Visual Content Creation Using Text-to-Image Consistency Models
407. ICML 2024Centralized Selection with Preferences in the Presence of Biases
408. ICML 2024Copula-Nested Spectral Kernel Network
409. ICML 2024Deletion-Anticipative Data Selection with a Limited Budget
410. ICML 2024Distributionally Robust Data Valuation
411. ICML 2024Domain Generalisation via Imprecise Learning
412. ICML 2024Domain-wise Data Acquisition to Improve Performance under Distribution Shift
413. ICML 2024Dynamic Correlation Clustering in Sublinear Update Time
414. ICML 2024Dynamic Facility Location in High Dimensional Euclidean Spaces
415. ICML 2024Equilibrium of Data Markets with Externality
416. ICML 2024EvIL: Evolution Strategies for Generalisable Imitation Learning
417. ICML 2024EvoluNet: Advancing Dynamic Non-IID Transfer Learning on Graphs
418. ICML 2024Fourier Controller Networks for Real-Time Decision-Making in Embodied Learning
419. ICML 2024GATE: How to Keep Out Intrusive Neighbors
420. ICML 2024Generalization Analysis of Deep Non-linear Matrix Completion
421. ICML 2024Learning to Continually Learn with the Bayesian Principle
422. ICML 2024Minimum-Norm Interpolation Under Covariate Shift
423. ICML 2024Offline Training of Language Model Agents with Functions as Learnable Weights
424. ICML 2024On Hypothesis Transfer Learning of Functional Linear Models
425. ICML 2024On the Tractability of SHAP Explanations under Markovian Distributions
426. ICML 2024Pluvial Flood Emulation with Hydraulics-informed Message Passing
427. ICML 2024Position: Automatic Environment Shaping is the Next Frontier in RL
428. ICML 2024Rethinking Transformers in Solving POMDPs
429. ICML 2024Smoothness Adaptive Hypothesis Transfer Learning
430. ICML 2024State-Free Inference of State-Space Models: The *Transfer Function* Approach
431. ICML 2024Superpoint Gaussian Splatting for Real-Time High-Fidelity Dynamic Scene Reconstruction
432. ICML 2024Tell, Don't Show: Language Guidance Eases Transfer Across Domains in Images and Videos
433. ICML 2024The Illusion of State in State-Space Models
434. ICML 2024TravelPlanner: A Benchmark for Real-World Planning with Language Agents
435. ICML 2024When is Transfer Learning Possible?
436. NeurIPS 2024A Practitioner's Guide to Real-World Continual Multimodal Pretraining
437. NeurIPS 2024A Retrospective on the Robot Air Hockey Challenge: Benchmarking Robust, Reliable, and Safe Learning Techniques for Real-world Robotics
438. NeurIPS 2024Covariate Shift Corrected Conditional Randomization Test
439. NeurIPS 2024DetectRL: Benchmarking LLM-Generated Text Detection in Real-World Scenarios
440. NeurIPS 2024DiffuserLite: Towards Real-time Diffusion Planning
441. NeurIPS 2024EASI: Evolutionary Adversarial Simulator Identification for Sim-to-Real Transfer
442. NeurIPS 2024EgoSim: An Egocentric Multi-view Simulator and Real Dataset for Body-worn Cameras during Motion and Activity
443. NeurIPS 2024FashionR2R: Texture-preserving Rendered-to-Real Image Translation with Diffusion Models
444. NeurIPS 2024HairFastGAN: Realistic and Robust Hair Transfer with a Fast Encoder-Based Approach
445. NeurIPS 2024Hamiltonian Monte Carlo on ReLU Neural Networks is Inefficient
446. NeurIPS 2024Humanoid Locomotion as Next Token Prediction
447. NeurIPS 2024Infusing Synthetic Data with Real-World Patterns for Zero-Shot Material State Segmentation
448. NeurIPS 2024NewTerm: Benchmarking Real-Time New Terms for Large Language Models with Annual Updates
449. NeurIPS 2024Noise-Aware Differentially Private Regression via Meta-Learning
450. NeurIPS 2024Overcoming the Sim-to-Real Gap: Leveraging Simulation to Learn to Explore for Real-World RL

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.