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

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1. ICML 2024A Global Geometric Analysis of Maximal Coding Rate Reduction
2. ICML 2024Achieving Margin Maximization Exponentially Fast via Progressive Norm Rescaling
3. ICML 2024Adaptive Conformal Inference by Betting
4. ICML 2024Adversarially Robust Hypothesis Transfer Learning
5. ICML 2024ALERT-Transformer: Bridging Asynchronous and Synchronous Machine Learning for Real-Time Event-based Spatio-Temporal Data
6. ICML 2024Ameliorate Spurious Correlations in Dataset Condensation
7. ICML 2024Automating the Selection of Proxy Variables of Unmeasured Confounders
8. ICML 2024CCM: Real-Time Controllable Visual Content Creation Using Text-to-Image Consistency Models
9. ICML 2024Centralized Selection with Preferences in the Presence of Biases
10. ICML 2024Copula-Nested Spectral Kernel Network
11. ICML 2024Deletion-Anticipative Data Selection with a Limited Budget
12. ICML 2024Distributionally Robust Data Valuation
13. ICML 2024Domain Generalisation via Imprecise Learning
14. ICML 2024Domain-wise Data Acquisition to Improve Performance under Distribution Shift
15. ICML 2024Dynamic Correlation Clustering in Sublinear Update Time
16. ICML 2024Dynamic Facility Location in High Dimensional Euclidean Spaces
17. ICML 2024Equilibrium of Data Markets with Externality
18. ICML 2024EvIL: Evolution Strategies for Generalisable Imitation Learning
19. ICML 2024EvoluNet: Advancing Dynamic Non-IID Transfer Learning on Graphs
20. ICML 2024Fourier Controller Networks for Real-Time Decision-Making in Embodied Learning
21. ICML 2024GATE: How to Keep Out Intrusive Neighbors
22. ICML 2024Generalization Analysis of Deep Non-linear Matrix Completion
23. ICML 2024Learning to Continually Learn with the Bayesian Principle
24. ICML 2024Minimum-Norm Interpolation Under Covariate Shift
25. ICML 2024Offline Training of Language Model Agents with Functions as Learnable Weights
26. ICML 2024On Hypothesis Transfer Learning of Functional Linear Models
27. ICML 2024On the Tractability of SHAP Explanations under Markovian Distributions
28. ICML 2024Pluvial Flood Emulation with Hydraulics-informed Message Passing
29. ICML 2024Position: Automatic Environment Shaping is the Next Frontier in RL
30. ICML 2024Rethinking Transformers in Solving POMDPs
31. ICML 2024Smoothness Adaptive Hypothesis Transfer Learning
32. ICML 2024State-Free Inference of State-Space Models: The *Transfer Function* Approach
33. ICML 2024Superpoint Gaussian Splatting for Real-Time High-Fidelity Dynamic Scene Reconstruction
34. ICML 2024Tell, Don't Show: Language Guidance Eases Transfer Across Domains in Images and Videos
35. ICML 2024The Illusion of State in State-Space Models
36. ICML 2024TravelPlanner: A Benchmark for Real-World Planning with Language Agents
37. ICML 2024When is Transfer Learning Possible?

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.