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
24 papers, page 1 of 1
- NeurIPS 2026Breaking the Quality–Privacy Tradeoff in Tabular Data Generation via In-Context Learning
- NeurIPS 2026DRTriton: Large-Scale Synthetic Data Driven Reinforcement Learning for Triton Kernel Generation
- NeurIPS 2026EvoCUA: Evolving Computer Use Agents via Learning from Scalable Synthetic Experience
- NeurIPS 2026Firefly: Illuminating Verified Real-world Tool Call Data Generation
- NeurIPS 2026HELICS: Biobank-scale Conditional Synthetic Genome Generation via Latent Flow Matching
- NeurIPS 2026How Data Augmentation Shapes Neural Representations
- NeurIPS 2026InvestigationWorlds: An Agentic Environment for Legal Investigation
- NeurIPS 2026Is Backpropagation Optimal? When Synthetic Gradients Improve Sample Efficiency
- NeurIPS 2026L2P: Unlocking Latent Potential for Pixel Generation
- NeurIPS 2026Learning with Synthetic Data via SGD in High-Dimensional Linear Regression
- NeurIPS 2026OopsWorld! Operation-Grounded Seamless World Generation
- NeurIPS 2026Persona Generators: Generating Diverse Synthetic Personas for Arbitrary Contexts
- NeurIPS 2026Positive-Unlabeled Preference Optimization For Chest X-ray Report Generation
- NeurIPS 2026Quest: Training Frontier Deep Research Agents with Fully Synthetic Tasks
- NeurIPS 2026Risk-guided Estimation-aware Acceptance for Learning with Synthetic Data
- NeurIPS 2026ScrapeGraphAI-100k: Dataset for Schema-Constrained LLM Generation
- NeurIPS 2026SLS-Bench: A Benchmark for Incident Log Summarization with Synthetic Observability Data
- NeurIPS 2026StereoPep: Do Molecular Models Understand Stereochemistry? A Benchmark on Synthetic Diastereomeric Peptides
- NeurIPS 2026Synthon Contrastive Learning for Synthesizable 3D Molecule Generation
- NeurIPS 2026TailDiff: Elicitable Tail-Guided Diffusion for Risk-Sensitive Generation
- NeurIPS 2026Targeted Synthetic Control Method
- NeurIPS 2026TempoPFN: Synthetic Pre-training of Linear RNNs for Zero-shot Time Series Forecasting
- NeurIPS 2026Transcoda: End-to-End Zero-Shot Optical Music Recognition via Data-Centric Synthetic Training
- NeurIPS 2026Transformers Converge to Invariant Algorithmic Cores
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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.