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
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- 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
18 papers, page 1 of 1
- 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
- NeurIPS 2024SimGen: Simulator-conditioned Driving Scene Generation
- NeurIPS 2024SynRS3D: A Synthetic Dataset for Global 3D Semantic Understanding from Monocular Remote Sensing Imagery
- NeurIPS 2024Synthesize, Partition, then Adapt: Eliciting Diverse Samples from Foundation Models
- NeurIPS 2024TabEBM: A Tabular Data Augmentation Method with Distinct Class-Specific Energy-Based Models
- NeurIPS 2024TSGM: A Flexible Framework for Generative Modeling of Synthetic Time Series
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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.