Symbolic Regression papers, 2023–2026
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Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 316 papers are tagged with this topic.
Key findings
- Symbolic Regression went from 63 papers in 2023 to 97 in 2026, roughly 1.5x in three years.
- NeurIPS publishes the most Symbolic Regression work: 118 papers from 2023 to 2026, 37% of the four-venue total.
- The fastest-growing overlap is with Theory · learning theory: papers tagged with both rose from 1 in 2023 to 10 in 2026.
- Among the 5 topics under Program Synthesis, it ranks #1 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Theorem Proving, is up 13x versus 1.5x here.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 22 | 17 | 21 | 3 | 63 |
| 2024 | 32 | 15 | 24 | 10 | 81 |
| 2025 | 30 | 22 | 21 | 2 | 75 |
| 2026 | 34 | 24 | 36 | 3 | 97 |
Representative papers
Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up
- NeurIPS 2026Conformal Prediction for Distribution-to-Distribution Regression
- ICML 2026Approximation Bounds for Transformer Networks with Application to Regression
- ICLR 2026Fast Estimation of Wasserstein Distances via Regression on Sliced Wasserstein Distances
- CVPR 2026CoLoR The Devil is in Scene Coordinate Regression for Large-Scale
- NeurIPS 2025Ascent Fails to Forget
- ICML 2025Benefits of Early Stopping in Gradient Descent for Overparameterized Logistic Regression
- ICLR 2025A Graph Enhanced Symbolic Discovery Framework For Efficient Logic Optimization
- CVPR 2025R-SCoRe: Revisiting Scene Coordinate Regression for Robust Large-Scale Visual Localization
- NeurIPS 2024Distributed Sparse Regression via Penalization
- ICML 2024$H$-Consistency Guarantees for Regression
- ICLR 2024Geometrically Aligned Transfer Encoder for Inductive Transfer in Regression Tasks
- CVPR 2024Map-Relative Pose Regression for Visual Re-Localization
- NeurIPS 2023Collaboratively Learning Linear Models with Structured Missing Data
- ICML 2023A Nearly-Optimal Bound for Fast Regression with $\ell_\infty$ Guarantee
- ICLR 2023Fast Nonlinear Vector Quantile Regression
- CVPR 2023DistilPose: Tokenized Pose Regression With Heatmap Distillation
- NeurIPS 2026DASS: A Solver-Agnostic Dynamic Auxiliary Search Strategy for Symbolic Regression
- ICML 2026AutoNumerics-Zero: Automated Discovery of State-of-the-Art Mathematical Functions
- ICLR 2026GenSR: Symbolic regression based on equation generative space
- CVPR 2026Sparse-View Localization via Online Neural 3D Regression
All Symbolic Regression papers
316 papers, page 4 of 7
- NeurIPS 2025Epistemic Uncertainty Estimation in Regression Ensemble Models with Pairwise Epistemic Estimators
- NeurIPS 2025FAME: Adaptive Functional Attention with Expert Routing for Function-on-Function Regression
- NeurIPS 2025FIGRDock: Fast Interaction-Guided Regression for Flexible Docking
- NeurIPS 2025Generalization vs Specialization under Concept Shift
- NeurIPS 2025Graph-based Symbolic Regression with Invariance and Constraint Encoding
- NeurIPS 2025Improving Monte Carlo Tree Search for Symbolic Regression
- NeurIPS 2025Information-Computation Tradeoffs for Noiseless Linear Regression with Oblivious Contamination
- NeurIPS 2025Large Stepsizes Accelerate Gradient Descent for Regularized Logistic Regression
- NeurIPS 2025Neural Collapse in Cumulative Link Models for Ordinal Regression: An Analysis with Unconstrained Feature Model
- NeurIPS 2025Nonparametric Quantile Regression with ReLU-Activated Recurrent Neural Networks
- NeurIPS 2025Optimal kernel regression bounds under energy-bounded noise
- NeurIPS 2025Optimal Rates in Continual Linear Regression via Increasing Regularization
- NeurIPS 2025Personalized Decision Modeling: Utility Optimization or Textualized-Symbolic Reasoning
- NeurIPS 2025Regularized least squares learning with heavy-tailed noise is minimax optimal
- NeurIPS 2025Risk Bounds For Distributional Regression
- NeurIPS 2025Robust Estimation Under Heterogeneous Corruption Rates
- NeurIPS 2025Semi-Supervised Regression with Heteroscedastic Pseudo-Labels
- NeurIPS 2025Statistical Inference for Gradient Boosting Regression
- NeurIPS 2025SymMaP: Improving Computational Efficiency in Linear Solvers through Symbolic Preconditioning
- NeurIPS 2025Transfer Learning for Benign Overfitting in High-Dimensional Linear Regression
- NeurIPS 2025TranSUN: A Preemptive Paradigm to Eradicate Retransformation Bias Intrinsically from Regression Models in Recommender Systems
- NeurIPS 2025Uncertainty Quantification for Deep Regression using Contextualised Normalizing Flows
- CVPR 2024Can Language Beat Numerical Regression? Language-Based Multimodal Trajectory Prediction
- CVPR 2024Deep Imbalanced Regression via Hierarchical Classification Adjustment
- CVPR 2024Deep Single Image Camera Calibration by Heatmap Regression to Recover Fisheye Images Under Manhattan World Assumption
- CVPR 2024Map-Relative Pose Regression for Visual Re-Localization
- CVPR 2024Neural Refinement for Absolute Pose Regression with Feature Synthesis
- CVPR 2024Reg-PTQ: Regression-specialized Post-training Quantization for Fully Quantized Object Detector
- CVPR 2024Riemannian Multinomial Logistics Regression for SPD Neural Networks
- CVPR 2024Seg2Reg: Differentiable 2D Segmentation to 1D Regression Rendering for 360 Room Layout Reconstruction
- CVPR 2024Spatial-Aware Regression for Keypoint Localization
- CVPR 2024ZeroShape: Regression-based Zero-shot Shape Reconstruction
- ICLR 2024An Agnostic View on the Cost of Overfitting in (Kernel) Ridge Regression
- ICLR 2024Conformal Prediction via Regression-as-Classification
- ICLR 2024Geometrically Aligned Transfer Encoder for Inductive Transfer in Regression Tasks
- ICLR 2024Graphical Multioutput Gaussian Process with Attention
- ICLR 2024How Many Pretraining Tasks Are Needed for In-Context Learning of Linear Regression?
- ICLR 2024LogicMP: A Neuro-symbolic Approach for Encoding First-order Logic Constraints
- ICLR 2024ODEFormer: Symbolic Regression of Dynamical Systems with Transformers
- ICLR 2024Reinforcement Symbolic Regression Machine
- ICLR 2024Rethinking Branching on Exact Combinatorial Optimization Solver: The First Deep Symbolic Discovery Framework
- ICLR 2024Risk Bounds of Accelerated SGD for Overparameterized Linear Regression
- ICLR 2024SNIP: Bridging Mathematical Symbolic and Numeric Realms with Unified Pre-training
- ICLR 2024Spectrally Transformed Kernel Regression
- ICLR 2024SWAP: Sparse Entropic Wasserstein Regression for Robust Network Pruning
- ICLR 2024SYMBOL: Generating Flexible Black-Box Optimizers through Symbolic Equation Learning
- ICLR 2024Transformers can optimally learn regression mixture models
- ICML 2024$H$-Consistency Guarantees for Regression
- ICML 2024A Neural-Guided Dynamic Symbolic Network for Exploring Mathematical Expressions from Data
- ICML 2024Agnostic Sample Compression Schemes for Regression
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FAQ
- How many Symbolic Regression papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?
- 316 in total: 63 in 2023, 81 in 2024, 75 in 2025, 97 in 2026.
- How many Symbolic Regression papers are at NeurIPS 2026?
- NeurIPS 2026 has 34 Symbolic Regression papers, versus 30 the year before.
- How many Symbolic Regression papers are at ICLR 2026?
- ICLR 2026 has 24 Symbolic Regression papers, versus 22 the year before.
- How many Symbolic Regression papers are at ICML 2026?
- ICML 2026 has 36 Symbolic Regression papers, versus 21 the year before.
- How many Symbolic Regression papers are at CVPR 2026?
- CVPR 2026 has 3 Symbolic Regression papers, versus 2 the year before.
- Which conference publishes the most Symbolic Regression papers?
- NeurIPS, with 118 papers from 2023 to 2026.