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
68 papers, page 1 of 2
- CVPR 2025AIM-Fair: Advancing Algorithmic Fairness via Selectively Fine-Tuning Biased Models with Contextual Synthetic Data
- CVPR 2025AKiRa: Augmentation Kit on Rays for Optical Video Generation
- CVPR 2025Be More Specific: Evaluating Object-centric Realism in Synthetic Images
- CVPR 2025Controllable Human Image Generation with Personalized Multi-Garments
- CVPR 2025Enhancing Virtual Try-On with Synthetic Pairs and Error-Aware Noise Scheduling
- CVPR 2025From Sparse Signal to Smooth Motion: Real-Time Motion Generation with Rolling Prediction Models
- CVPR 2025MIDI: Multi-Instance Diffusion for Single Image to 3D Scene Generation
- CVPR 2025Motion Modes: What Could Happen Next?
- CVPR 2025MultiMorph: On-demand Atlas Construction
- CVPR 2025S2D-LFE: Sparse-to-Dense Light Field Event Generation
- CVPR 2025SeaLion: Semantic Part-Aware Latent Point Diffusion Models for 3D Generation
- CVPR 2025Synthetic Visual Genome
- CVPR 2025SynthLight: Portrait Relighting with Diffusion Model by Learning to Re-render Synthetic Faces
- CVPR 2025Transfer Your Perspective: Controllable 3D Generation from Any Viewpoint in a Driving Scene
- ICLR 2025API Pack: A Massive Multi-Programming Language Dataset for API Call Generation
- ICLR 2025Beyond the convexity assumption: Realistic tabular data generation under quantifier-free real linear constraints
- ICLR 2025Conditional Diffusion with Ordinal Regression: Longitudinal Data Generation for Neurodegenerative Disease Studies
- ICLR 2025Continuous Diffusion for Mixed-Type Tabular Data
- ICLR 2025CraftRTL: High-quality Synthetic Data Generation for Verilog Code Models with Correct-by-Construction Non-Textual Representations and Targeted Code Repair
- ICLR 2025CTSyn: A Foundation Model for Cross Tabular Data Generation
- ICLR 2025DataEnvGym: Data Generation Agents in Teacher Environments with Student Feedback
- ICLR 2025DataGen: Unified Synthetic Dataset Generation via Large Language Models
- ICLR 2025Fictitious Synthetic Data Can Improve LLM Factuality via Prerequisite Learning
- ICLR 2025Gaussian Mixture Counterfactual Generator
- ICLR 2025MindSimulator: Exploring Brain Concept Localization via Synthetic fMRI
- ICLR 2025Personalized Representation from Personalized Generation
- ICLR 2025Scaling Instruction-tuned LLMs to Million-token Contexts via Hierarchical Synthetic Data Generation
- ICLR 2025Single Teacher, Multiple Perspectives: Teacher Knowledge Augmentation for Enhanced Knowledge Distillation
- ICLR 2025Synthetic continued pretraining
- ICLR 2025The Power of LLM-Generated Synthetic Data for Stance Detection in Online Political Discussions
- ICLR 2025Towards a Theoretical Understanding of Synthetic Data in LLM Post-Training: A Reverse-Bottleneck Perspective
- ICLR 2025Vec2Face: Scaling Face Dataset Generation with Loosely Constrained Vectors
- ICML 2025BAnG: Bidirectional Anchored Generation for Conditional RNA Design
- ICML 2025BOOD: Boundary-based Out-Of-Distribution Data Generation
- ICML 2025Breaking the Barrier of Hard Samples: A Data-Centric Approach to Synthetic Data for Medical Tasks
- ICML 2025Learning-Order Autoregressive Models with Application to Molecular Graph Generation
- ICML 2025Offline-to-Online Reinforcement Learning with Classifier-Free Diffusion Generation
- ICML 2025SK-VQA: Synthetic Knowledge Generation at Scale for Training Context-Augmented Multimodal LLMs
- ICML 2025Synthetic Face Datasets Generation via Latent Space Exploration from Brownian Identity Diffusion
- ICML 2025Synthetic Text Generation for Training Large Language Models via Gradient Matching
- ICML 2025TabSDS: a Lightweight, Fully Non-Parametric, and Model Free Approach for Generating Synthetic Tabular Data
- NeurIPS 2025Achilles' Heel of Mamba: Essential difficulties of the Mamba architecture demonstrated by synthetic data
- NeurIPS 2025Amortized Active Generation of Pareto Sets
- NeurIPS 2025AR-RAG: Autoregressive Retrieval Augmentation for Image Generation
- NeurIPS 2025AugGen: Synthetic Augmentation using Diffusion Models Can Improve Recognition
- NeurIPS 2025ChemOrch: Empowering LLMs with Chemical Intelligence via Groundbreaking Synthetic Instructions
- NeurIPS 2025Constrained Posterior Sampling: Time Series Generation with Hard Constraints
- NeurIPS 2025Diffusing DeBias: Synthetic Bias Amplification for Model Debiasing
- NeurIPS 2025FerretNet: Efficient Synthetic Image Detection via Local Pixel Dependencies
- NeurIPS 2025Forging Time Series with Language: A Large Language Model Approach to Synthetic Data Generation
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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.