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
34 papers, page 1 of 1
- NeurIPS 2026$R^3$: 3D Reconstruction via Relative Regression
- NeurIPS 2026Adversarially Attacking Symbolic Vocabulary Vulnerabilities In LLM Planners
- NeurIPS 2026Bounds on Extrapolation across Phase Transitions with Generalized Regression
- NeurIPS 2026Characterizing the Generalization Error of Random Feature Regression with Arbitrary Data-Augmentation
- NeurIPS 2026Conformal Prediction for Distribution-to-Distribution Regression
- NeurIPS 2026Continuous-depth Deep Gaussian Processes
- NeurIPS 2026DASS: A Solver-Agnostic Dynamic Auxiliary Search Strategy for Symbolic Regression
- NeurIPS 2026Data Diversity Drives the Emergence of Symbolic Mechanisms Supporting Abstract Reasoning
- NeurIPS 2026Deep Heteroskedastic Regression: Post-Hoc Variance Estimation from Latent Representations
- NeurIPS 2026EditFlowSR: Revisable Expression Generation for Symbolic Regression
- NeurIPS 2026Efficient algorithms for linear regression with heteroskedastic errors
- NeurIPS 2026End-to-End Verification of Neuro-symbolic Automata via Contrastive Logit-Gaps
- NeurIPS 2026Geometric Analysis of Neural Regression Collapse via Intrinsic Dimension
- NeurIPS 2026Geometry-Constrained Kolmogorov–Arnold Networks: Learning Edge Geometry via Banach Duality
- NeurIPS 2026In-Context Benign Overfitting: A Feature-Selection Model in Linear Regression ICL
- NeurIPS 2026Interpretable Relational Inference with LLM-Guided Symbolic Dynamics Modeling
- NeurIPS 2026Just Ramp-Up: Debiasing Regression-based Estimator for A/B Tests under Network Interference
- NeurIPS 2026Kernel Value Regression in Offline Reinforcement Learning
- NeurIPS 2026Learning Optimal Transport Plans Via Autoregressive Token Regression
- NeurIPS 2026Learning with Synthetic Data via SGD in High-Dimensional Linear Regression
- NeurIPS 2026Multiple Descent of Generalization Curve for Optimally Regularized Ridge Regression
- NeurIPS 2026NesyProAct: Proactive Neural-Symbolic Control for Web Agents
- NeurIPS 2026Optimal Linear Regression Without a Variance
- NeurIPS 2026Pooling Versus Ensembling for Ridge Regression Under Covariate Shift
- NeurIPS 2026Position: The Road to Generalizable Neuro-Symbolic Learning Should be Paved with Foundation Models
- NeurIPS 2026Regret-Optimal Wasserstein-Robust Regression
- NeurIPS 2026RL-Guided Contraction of Symbolic Tensor Networks for Quantum Circuit Equivalence
- NeurIPS 2026Sparse Attention as Compact Kernel Regression
- NeurIPS 2026Sup-Norm Error under Proportional Asymptotics: Phase Transitions under Linear Regression
- NeurIPS 2026Symb-xMIL: Symbolic Explanations for Multiple Instance Learning in Digital Pathology
- NeurIPS 2026The Minimax Rate of Online Isotonic Regression on Product Orders
- NeurIPS 2026Transfer Learning of Linear Regression with Multiple Pretrained Models: Benefiting from More Pretrained Models via Overparameterization Debiasing
- NeurIPS 2026Umbilic Multinomial Logistic Regression
- NeurIPS 2026Very Fast Bayesian Additive Regression Trees on GPU
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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.