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

222 papers, page 1 of 5

1. CVPR 2026AKCMamba-YOLO Selective State Space Models For Real-Time Object Detection
2. CVPR 2026AnthroTAP Learning Point Tracking with Real-World Motion
3. CVPR 2026Bilevel Layer-Positioning LoRA for Real Image Dehazing
4. CVPR 2026BiProLoRA Bilevel Prompt LoRA for Real Scene Recovery
5. CVPR 2026BridgeEQA Virtual Embodied Agents for Real Bridge Inspections
6. CVPR 2026Clair Obscur an Illumination-Aware Method for Real-World Image Vectorization
7. CVPR 2026CLP A Real-World Dataset of Contaminated Lens Protectors for Robust
8. CVPR 2026Contact-Aware Neural Dynamics
9. CVPR 2026DeepfakeImpact A Two-Stage Benchmark with Real-World Impact in Deepfake Detection
10. CVPR 2026DreamStereo Towards Real-Time Stereo Inpainting for HD Videos
11. CVPR 2026DynamicTree Interactive Real Tree Animation via Sparse Voxel Spectrum
12. CVPR 2026EgoEdit Dataset Real-Time Streaming Model and Benchmark for Egocentric Video
13. CVPR 2026Fast-FoundationStereo Real-Time Zero-Shot Stereo Matching
14. CVPR 2026FlashDecoder Real-Time Latent-to-Pixel Streaming Decoder with Transformers
15. CVPR 2026FlashVSR Towards Real-time Diffusion-Based Streaming Video Super Resolution
16. CVPR 2026GeCo-SRT Geometry-aware Continual Adaptation for Cross-Task Sim-to-Real Transfer
17. CVPR 2026GHPT Real-Time Relightable Gaussian Splatting using Hybrid Path Tracing
18. CVPR 2026Hist2Style Histogram-Guided Stylization with Bilateral Grids
19. CVPR 2026ICTPolarReal A Polarized Reflection and Material Dataset of Real World
20. CVPR 2026ID-Sim An Identity-Focused Similarity Metric
21. CVPR 2026IFCSR Inference-Free Fidelity-Realism Control for One-Step Diffusion-based Real-World Image Super-Resolution
22. CVPR 2026InstantViR Real-Time Video Inverse Problem Solver with Distilled Diffusion Prior
23. CVPR 2026Iris Bringing Real-World Priors into Diffusion Model for Monocular Depth
24. CVPR 2026KV-Tracker Real-Time Pose Tracking with Transformers
25. CVPR 2026LagerNVS Latent Geometry for Fully Neural Real-time Novel View Synthesis
26. CVPR 2026Learning 3D Shape Fidelity Metric from Real-world Distortions
27. CVPR 2026Learning to Act Robustly with View-Invariant Latent Actions
28. CVPR 2026MeshSplatting Differentiable Rendering with Opaque Meshes
29. CVPR 2026MimicTalker A Multimodal Interactive and Memory-Enhanced Framework for Real-Time Dyadic
30. CVPR 2026OmniGround A Comprehensive Spatio-Temporal Grounding Benchmark for Real-World Complex Scenarios
31. CVPR 2026Opening the Sim-to-Real Door for Humanoid Pixel-to-Action Policy Transfer
32. CVPR 2026PAM A Pose-Appearance-Motion Engine for Sim-to-Real HOI Video Generation
33. CVPR 2026PortraitDirector A Hierarchical Disentanglement Framework for Controllable and Real-time Facial
34. CVPR 2026RaUF Learning the Spatial Uncertainty Field of Radar
35. CVPR 2026Real-Time Dynamic Scene Rendering with Controlled Compressibility and Contact Awareness
36. CVPR 2026Real-Time Neural Video Compression with Unified Intra and Inter Coding
37. CVPR 2026Real-World Point Tracking with Verifier-Guided Pseudo-Labeling
38. CVPR 2026Real2Sim2Real RetinalDepth-64K for Depth Estimation in Posterior Segment Ophthalmic Surgery
39. CVPR 2026RealVLG-R1 A Large-Scale Real-World Visual-Language Grounding Benchmark for Robotic Perception
40. CVPR 2026Rethinking Camera Choice An Empirical Study on Fisheye Camera Properties
41. CVPR 2026RoboWheel A Data Engine from Real-World Human Demonstrations for Cross-Embodiment
42. CVPR 2026SAMosaic3D Modular Scene Assembly for Real-Time 3D Segment Anything
43. CVPR 2026See Through the Noise Improving Domain Generalization in Gaze Estimation
44. CVPR 2026Seele A Unified Acceleration Framework for Real-Time Gaussian Splatting on
45. CVPR 2026SimRecon SimReady Compositional Scene Reconstruction from Real Videos
46. CVPR 2026SimScale Learning to Drive via Real-World Simulation at Scale
47. CVPR 2026SO3-Equivariant ViT-Adapter for Data-Efficient Zero-Shot Sim-to-Real Indoor Panoramic Depth Estimation
48. CVPR 2026SPARK Sim-ready Part-level Articulated Reconstruction with VLM Knowledge
49. CVPR 2026StreamAvatar Streaming Diffusion Models for Real-Time Interactive Human Avatars
50. CVPR 2026TM-BSN Triangular-Masked Blind-Spot Network for Real-World Self-Supervised Image Denoising

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.