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
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- 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
102 papers, page 1 of 3
- ICML 2026Accelerating Regression Tasks with Quantum Algorithms
- ICML 2026Active Regression for Single-Index Models with Unknown Link Functions
- ICML 2026Approximation Bounds for Transformer Networks with Application to Regression
- ICML 2026AutoNumerics-Zero: Automated Discovery of State-of-the-Art Mathematical Functions
- ICML 2026Beyond Accuracy and Complexity: The Effective Information Criterion for Structurally Stable Symbolic Regression
- ICML 2026Beyond Token-level Supervision: Unlocking the Potential of Decoding-based Regression via Reinforcement Learning
- ICML 2026Breaking the Simplification Bottleneck in Amortized Neural Symbolic Regression
- ICML 2026Colorful Pinball: Density-Weighted Quantile Regression for Conditional Guarantee of Conformal Prediction
- ICML 2026Contrastive Symbolic Regression: Aligned Representations, Adaptive Prediction, and Diverse Ensembles
- ICML 2026Deep Neural Network Regression with Functional Covariates
- ICML 2026Deep Single-Index Fréchet Regression
- ICML 2026Estimating Continuous Treatment Effects with Two-Stage Kernel Ridge Regression
- ICML 2026Hard labels sampled from sparse targets mislead rotation invariant algorithms
- ICML 2026Higher-Order Certified Robustness for Regression
- ICML 2026How Hard Is Science?
- ICML 2026Influence-Guided Symbolic Regression: Scientific Discovery via LLM-Driven Equation Search with Granular Feedback
- ICML 2026Learning Randomized Reductions
- ICML 2026Learning Treatment Representations for Downstream Instrumental Variable Regression
- ICML 2026Must All Negatives Be Pushed Away Equally? Uncertainty-Aware Cross-View Geo-Localization via Normal Inverse Gamma Distribution
- ICML 2026Neural–Evolutionary Symbolic Regression with Global Constraints: Constraint-Aware Decoding and Reward Shaping
- ICML 2026Neuro-Symbolic AI for Analytical Solutions of Differential Equations
- ICML 2026Nonparametric Distribution Regression Re-calibration
- ICML 2026On Uniform Error Bounds for Kernel Regression under Non-Gaussian Noise
- ICML 2026One-Shot Weighted Ensemble Estimation for Federated Quantile Regression: Optimal Statistical Guarantees under Heterogeneous Structured Data
- ICML 2026Quantile-Free Uncertainty Quantification in Graph Neural Networks
- ICML 2026RLIE: Rule Generation with Logistic Regression, Iterative Refinement, and Evaluation for Large Language Models
- ICML 2026Scalable Simulation-Based Model Inference with Test-Time Complexity Control
- ICML 2026Scaling Laws for Precision in High-Dimensional Linear Regression
- ICML 2026Signal Strength Estimation in Logistic Regression Using Data Splitting
- ICML 2026Spatial Conformal Inference through Localized Quantile Regression
- ICML 2026Stabilizing Equation Learning via Zero-Point Constraints
- ICML 2026Time-Series Decomposition as a Standalone Task: A Mechanism-Driven Diagnostic Benchmark
- ICML 2026To Grok Grokking: Provable Grokking in Ridge Regression
- ICML 2026Transformers Efficiently Perform In-Context Logistic Regression via Normalized Gradient Descent
- ICML 2026TT-Sparse: Learning Sparse Rule Models with Differentiable Truth Tables
- ICML 2026Variable Clustering via Distributionally Robust Nodewise Regression
- ICML 2025A Likelihood Based Approach to Distribution Regression Using Conditional Deep Generative Models
- ICML 2025Ab Initio Nonparametric Variable Selection for Scalable Symbolic Regression with Large $p$
- ICML 2025Batch List-Decodable Linear Regression via Higher Moments
- ICML 2025Benefits of Early Stopping in Gradient Descent for Overparameterized Logistic Regression
- ICML 2025Curvature Enhanced Data Augmentation for Regression
- ICML 2025Dataflow-Guided Neuro-Symbolic Language Models for Type Inference
- ICML 2025Exact Recovery of Sparse Binary Vectors from Generalized Linear Measurements
- ICML 2025Exploring Invariance in Images through One-way Wave Equations
- ICML 2025Fast Min-$\epsilon$ Segmented Regression using Constant-Time Segment Merging
- ICML 2025FEAT-KD: Learning Concise Representations for Single and Multi-Target Regression via TabNet Knowledge Distillation
- ICML 2025Fully Heteroscedastic Count Regression with Deep Double Poisson Networks
- ICML 2025Gradient Aligned Regression via Pairwise Losses
- ICML 2025Heavy-Tailed Linear Bandits: Huber Regression with One-Pass Update
- ICML 2025Learning Curves of Stochastic Gradient Descent in Kernel 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.