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

159 papers, page 1 of 4

1. CVPR 2023A Data-Based Perspective on Transfer Learning
2. CVPR 2023A New Benchmark: On the Utility of Synthetic Data With Blender for Bare Supervised Learning and Downstream Domain Adaptation
3. CVPR 2023Adversarially Masking Synthetic To Mimic Real: Adaptive Noise Injection for Point Cloud Segmentation Adaptation
4. CVPR 2023Affection: Learning Affective Explanations for Real-World Visual Data
5. CVPR 2023Auto-CARD: Efficient and Robust Codec Avatar Driving for Real-Time Mobile Telepresence
6. CVPR 2023Blur Interpolation Transformer for Real-World Motion From Blur
7. CVPR 2023CAP-VSTNet: Content Affinity Preserved Versatile Style Transfer
8. CVPR 2023Center Focusing Network for Real-Time LiDAR Panoptic Segmentation
9. CVPR 2023Cloud-Device Collaborative Adaptation to Continual Changing Environments in the Real-World
10. CVPR 2023Co-SLAM: Joint Coordinate and Sparse Parametric Encodings for Neural Real-Time SLAM
11. CVPR 2023Common Pets in 3D: Dynamic New-View Synthesis of Real-Life Deformable Categories
12. CVPR 2023ContraNeRF: Generalizable Neural Radiance Fields for Synthetic-to-Real Novel View Synthesis via Contrastive Learning
13. CVPR 2023Distilling Neural Fields for Real-Time Articulated Shape Reconstruction
14. CVPR 2023DyNCA: Real-Time Dynamic Texture Synthesis Using Neural Cellular Automata
15. CVPR 2023Event-Based Blurry Frame Interpolation Under Blind Exposure
16. CVPR 2023Fantastic Breaks: A Dataset of Paired 3D Scans of Real-World Broken Objects and Their Complete Counterparts
17. CVPR 2023FastInst: A Simple Query-Based Model for Real-Time Instance Segmentation
18. CVPR 2023Four-View Geometry With Unknown Radial Distortion
19. CVPR 2023H2ONet: Hand-Occlusion-and-Orientation-Aware Network for Real-Time 3D Hand Mesh Reconstruction
20. CVPR 2023HairStep: Transfer Synthetic to Real Using Strand and Depth Maps for Single-View 3D Hair Modeling
21. CVPR 2023Joint HDR Denoising and Fusion: A Real-World Mobile HDR Image Dataset
22. CVPR 2023Latency Matters: Real-Time Action Forecasting Transformer
23. CVPR 2023Learning Geometric-Aware Properties in 2D Representation Using Lightweight CAD Models, or Zero Real 3D Pairs
24. CVPR 2023Learning Neural Duplex Radiance Fields for Real-Time View Synthesis
25. CVPR 2023LG-BPN: Local and Global Blind-Patch Network for Self-Supervised Real-World Denoising
26. CVPR 2023Markerless Camera-to-Robot Pose Estimation via Self-Supervised Sim-to-Real Transfer
27. CVPR 2023Modernizing Old Photos Using Multiple References via Photorealistic Style Transfer
28. CVPR 2023Multi-View Inverse Rendering for Large-Scale Real-World Indoor Scenes
29. CVPR 2023NeRFInvertor: High Fidelity NeRF-GAN Inversion for Single-Shot Real Image Animation
30. CVPR 2023NoPe-NeRF: Optimising Neural Radiance Field With No Pose Prior
31. CVPR 2023NULL-Text Inversion for Editing Real Images Using Guided Diffusion Models
32. CVPR 2023Phone2Proc: Bringing Robust Robots Into Our Chaotic World
33. CVPR 2023PIDNet: A Real-Time Semantic Segmentation Network Inspired by PID Controllers
34. CVPR 2023PoseFormerV2: Exploring Frequency Domain for Efficient and Robust 3D Human Pose Estimation
35. CVPR 2023Propagate and Calibrate: Real-Time Passive Non-Line-of-Sight Tracking
36. CVPR 2023Real-Time 6K Image Rescaling With Rate-Distortion Optimization
37. CVPR 2023Real-Time Evaluation in Online Continual Learning: A New Hope
38. CVPR 2023Real-Time Neural Light Field on Mobile Devices
39. CVPR 2023RealImpact: A Dataset of Impact Sound Fields for Real Objects
40. CVPR 2023RIDCP: Revitalizing Real Image Dehazing via High-Quality Codebook Priors
41. CVPR 2023SCoDA: Domain Adaptive Shape Completion for Real Scans
42. CVPR 2023Self-Supervised AutoFlow
43. CVPR 2023Semi-Supervised Parametric Real-World Image Harmonization
44. CVPR 2023sRGB Real Noise Synthesizing With Neighboring Correlation-Aware Noise Model
45. CVPR 2023Symmetric Shape-Preserving Autoencoder for Unsupervised Real Scene Point Cloud Completion
46. CVPR 2023The ObjectFolder Benchmark: Multisensory Learning With Neural and Real Objects
47. CVPR 2023Tracking Multiple Deformable Objects in Egocentric Videos
48. CVPR 2023Transfer Knowledge From Head to Tail: Uncertainty Calibration Under Long-Tailed Distribution
49. CVPR 2023Transfer4D: A Framework for Frugal Motion Capture and Deformation Transfer
50. CVPR 2023UV Volumes for Real-Time Rendering of Editable Free-View Human Performance

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.