Synthetic Data Generation papers, 2023–2026
Data augmentation at scale
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 277 papers are tagged with this topic.
Key findings
- Synthetic Data Generation went from 72 papers in 2023 to 96 in 2026, roughly 1.3x in three years.
- NeurIPS publishes the most Synthetic Data Generation work: 114 papers from 2023 to 2026, 41% of the four-venue total.
- The fastest-growing overlap is with Diffusion Models: papers tagged with both rose from 6 in 2023 to 20 in 2026.
- Among the 5 topics under Data-Centric AI, it ranks #1 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Weak Supervision, is up 1.3x versus 1.3x here.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 45 | 5 | 13 | 9 | 72 |
| 2024 | 18 | 6 | 9 | 8 | 41 |
| 2025 | 27 | 18 | 9 | 14 | 68 |
| 2026 | 24 | 26 | 21 | 25 | 96 |
Representative papers
Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up
- NeurIPS 2026Breaking the Quality–Privacy Tradeoff in Tabular Data Generation via In-Context Learning
- ICML 2026Active Tabular Augmentation via Policy-Guided Diffusion Inpainting
- ICLR 2026Critic–Adviser–Reviser Cyclic Refinement: Towards High-Quality EMR Corpus Generation with LLMs
- CVPR 2026Beyond Objects Contextual Synthetic Data Generation for Fine-Grained Classification
- NeurIPS 2025Achilles' Heel of Mamba: Essential difficulties of the Mamba architecture demonstrated by synthetic data
- ICML 2025Synthetic Text Generation for Training Large Language Models via Gradient Matching
- ICLR 2025Scaling Instruction-tuned LLMs to Million-token Contexts via Hierarchical Synthetic Data Generation
- CVPR 2025Synthetic Visual Genome
- NeurIPS 2024DECO-Bench: Unified Benchmark for Decoupled Task-Agnostic Synthetic Data Release
- ICML 2024CaRiNG: Learning Temporal Causal Representation under Non-Invertible Generation Process
- ICLR 2024A Linear Algebraic Framework for Counterfactual Generation
- CVPR 2024Learning from Synthetic Human Group Activities
- NeurIPS 2023[Re] $\mathcal{G}$-Mixup: Graph Data Augmentation for Graph Classification
- ICML 2023Data Feedback Loops: Model-driven Amplification of Dataset Biases
- ICLR 2023Synthetic Data Generation of Many-to-Many Datasets via Random Graph Generation
- CVPR 2023Fake It Till You Make It: Learning Transferable Representations From Synthetic ImageNet Clones
- NeurIPS 2026Learning with Synthetic Data via SGD in High-Dimensional Linear Regression
- ICML 2026Counterfactual Residual Data Augmentation for Regression
- ICLR 2026Making, Not Taking, the Best of N
- CVPR 2026Order Matters 3D Shape Generation from Sequential VR Sketches
All Synthetic Data Generation papers
277 papers, page 4 of 6
- NeurIPS 2025MIDAS: Misalignment-based Data Augmentation Strategy for Imbalanced Multimodal Learning
- NeurIPS 2025MoleBridge: Synthetic Space Projecting with Discrete Markov Bridges
- NeurIPS 2025Non-Adaptive Adversarial Face Generation
- NeurIPS 2025PANGEA: Projection-Based Augmentation with Non-Relevant General Data for Enhanced Domain Adaptation in LLMs
- NeurIPS 2025Parameterized Synthetic Text Generation with SimpleStories
- NeurIPS 2025Private Evolution Converges
- NeurIPS 2025ROSE: Remove Objects with Side Effects in Videos
- NeurIPS 2025Seeing What Matters: Generalizable AI-generated Video Detection with Forensic-Oriented Augmentation
- NeurIPS 2025Self-Adapting Language Models
- NeurIPS 2025SimpleStrat: Diversifying Language Model Generation with Stratification
- NeurIPS 2025Spend Wisely: Maximizing Post-Training Gains in Iterative Synthetic Data Bootstrapping
- NeurIPS 2025Synthetic Series-Symbol Data Generation for Time Series Foundation Models
- NeurIPS 2025Thousand Voices of Trauma: A Large-Scale Synthetic Dataset for Modeling Prolonged Exposure Therapy Conversations
- NeurIPS 2025Towards Syn-to-Real IQA: A Novel Perspective on Reshaping Synthetic Data Distributions
- CVPR 2024Density-guided Translator Boosts Synthetic-to-Real Unsupervised Domain Adaptive Segmentation of 3D Point Clouds
- CVPR 2024Design2Cloth: 3D Cloth Generation from 2D Masks
- CVPR 2024DiffuseMix: Label-Preserving Data Augmentation with Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024EgoGen: An Egocentric Synthetic Data Generator
- CVPR 2024FairRAG: Fair Human Generation via Fair Retrieval Augmentation
- CVPR 2024Learning from Synthetic Human Group Activities
- CVPR 2024SemCity: Semantic Scene Generation with Triplane Diffusion
- CVPR 2024WinSyn: : A High Resolution Testbed for Synthetic Data
- ICLR 2024A Linear Algebraic Framework for Counterfactual Generation
- ICLR 2024Achieving Human Parity in Content-Grounded Datasets Generation
- ICLR 2024Diffusion-TS: Interpretable Diffusion for General Time Series Generation
- ICLR 2024How Realistic Is Your Synthetic Data? Constraining Deep Generative Models for Tabular Data
- ICLR 2024LLM-Assisted Code Cleaning For Training Accurate Code Generators
- ICLR 2024Teaching Language Models to Hallucinate Less with Synthetic Tasks
- ICML 2024CaPS: Collaborative and Private Synthetic Data Generation from Distributed Sources
- ICML 2024CaRiNG: Learning Temporal Causal Representation under Non-Invertible Generation Process
- ICML 2024Compositional Capabilities of Autoregressive Transformers: A Study on Synthetic, Interpretable Tasks
- ICML 2024CuTS: Customizable Tabular Synthetic Data Generation
- ICML 2024Differentially Private Sum-Product Networks
- ICML 2024Leverage Class-Specific Accuracy to Guide Data Generation for Improving Image Classification
- ICML 2024Magicoder: Empowering Code Generation with OSS-Instruct
- ICML 2024MILP-FBGen: LP/MILP Instance Generation with Feasibility/Boundedness
- ICML 2024Sharpness-Aware Data Generation for Zero-shot Quantization
- NeurIPS 2024$\text{ID}^3$: Identity-Preserving-yet-Diversified Diffusion Models for Synthetic Face Recognition
- NeurIPS 2024A Label is Worth A Thousand Images in Dataset Distillation
- NeurIPS 2024CemiFace: Center-based Semi-hard Synthetic Face Generation for Face Recognition
- NeurIPS 2024Dealing with Synthetic Data Contamination in Online Continual Learning
- NeurIPS 2024Debiasing Synthetic Data Generated by Deep Generative Models
- NeurIPS 2024DECO-Bench: Unified Benchmark for Decoupled Task-Agnostic Synthetic Data Release
- NeurIPS 2024DiffAug: A Diffuse-and-Denoise Augmentation for Training Robust Classifiers
- NeurIPS 2024FairWire: Fair Graph Generation
- NeurIPS 2024HardCore Generation: Generating Hard UNSAT Problems for Data Augmentation
- NeurIPS 2024High Rank Path Development: an approach to learning the filtration of stochastic processes
- NeurIPS 2024Hints-In-Browser: Benchmarking Language Models for Programming Feedback Generation
- NeurIPS 2024On the Ability of Developers' Training Data Preservation of Learnware
- NeurIPS 2024Privacy without Noisy Gradients: Slicing Mechanism for Generative Model Training
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FAQ
- How many Synthetic Data Generation papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?
- 277 in total: 72 in 2023, 41 in 2024, 68 in 2025, 96 in 2026.
- How many Synthetic Data Generation papers are at NeurIPS 2026?
- NeurIPS 2026 has 24 Synthetic Data Generation papers, versus 27 the year before.
- How many Synthetic Data Generation papers are at ICLR 2026?
- ICLR 2026 has 26 Synthetic Data Generation papers, versus 18 the year before.
- How many Synthetic Data Generation papers are at ICML 2026?
- ICML 2026 has 21 Synthetic Data Generation papers, versus 9 the year before.
- How many Synthetic Data Generation papers are at CVPR 2026?
- CVPR 2026 has 25 Synthetic Data Generation papers, versus 14 the year before.
- Which conference publishes the most Synthetic Data Generation papers?
- NeurIPS, with 114 papers from 2023 to 2026.