Synthetic Data papers, 2023–2026
Privacy-preserving synthesis
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 169 papers are tagged with this topic.
Key findings
- Synthetic Data fell from 54 papers in 2023 to 50 in 2026, so interest is cooling.
- NeurIPS publishes the most Synthetic Data work: 64 papers from 2023 to 2026, 38% of the four-venue total.
- The fastest-growing overlap is with Reinforcement Learning: papers tagged with both rose from 0 in 2023 to 7 in 2026.
- Among the 5 topics under Federated and Privacy, it ranks #4 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Secure Aggregation, is up 1.8x versus 0.9x here.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 27 | 5 | 15 | 7 | 54 |
| 2024 | 11 | 3 | 8 | 11 | 33 |
| 2025 | 8 | 7 | 9 | 8 | 32 |
| 2026 | 18 | 4 | 14 | 14 | 50 |
Representative papers
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- NeurIPS 2026Learning with Synthetic Data via SGD in High-Dimensional Linear Regression
- ICML 2026A Statistical Framework for Analyzing Specification Resistance to Learnware-Inversion Risks
- ICLR 2026Synthetic Bootstrapped Pretraining
- CVPR 2026UnReflectAnything RGB-Only Highlight Removal by Rendering Synthetic Specular Supervision
- NeurIPS 2025Achilles' Heel of Mamba: Essential difficulties of the Mamba architecture demonstrated by synthetic data
- ICML 2025Synthesizing Privacy-Preserving Text Data via Finetuning *without* Finetuning Billion-Scale LLMs
- ICLR 2025Fictitious Synthetic Data Can Improve LLM Factuality via Prerequisite Learning
- CVPR 2025Synthetic Visual Genome
- NeurIPS 2024DECO-Bench: Unified Benchmark for Decoupled Task-Agnostic Synthetic Data Release
- ICML 2024Compositional Capabilities of Autoregressive Transformers: A Study on Synthetic, Interpretable Tasks
- ICLR 2024Differentially Private Synthetic Data via Foundation Model APIs 1: Images
- CVPR 2024Discontinuity-preserving Normal Integration with Auxiliary Edges
- NeurIPS 2023Can You Rely on Your Model Evaluation? Improving Model Evaluation with Synthetic Test Data
- ICML 2023Data Structures for Density Estimation
- ICLR 2023Statistical Theory of Differentially Private Marginal-based Data Synthesis Algorithms
- CVPR 20233D-Aware Facial Landmark Detection via Multi-View Consistent Training on Synthetic Data
- NeurIPS 2026StereoPep: Do Molecular Models Understand Stereochemistry? A Benchmark on Synthetic Diastereomeric Peptides
- ICML 2026FedUSD: Unbiased Synthetic Data for Federated Learning
- ICLR 2026High-dimensional Analysis of Synthetic Data Selection
- CVPR 2026AHS Adaptive Head Synthesis via Synthetic Data Augmentations
All Synthetic Data papers
14 papers, page 1 of 1
- CVPR 2026AHS Adaptive Head Synthesis via Synthetic Data Augmentations
- CVPR 2026BarbieGait An Identity-Consistent Synthetic Human Dataset with Versatile Cloth-Changing for
- CVPR 2026CaricHarmony Contrastive Diffusion Paths for Identity-Preserving Caricature Synthesis
- CVPR 2026Exemplar-Free Class Incremental Learning via Preserving Class-Discriminative Structure
- CVPR 2026Layer Consistency Matters Elegant Latent Transition Discrepancy for Generalizable Synthetic
- CVPR 2026Learning from Synthetic Data via Provenance-Based Input Gradient Guidance
- CVPR 2026Learning to Generate Highly Dynamic Videos using Synthetic Motion Data
- CVPR 2026PLACID Identity-Preserving Multi-Object Compositing via Video Diffusion with Synthetic Trajectories
- CVPR 2026PrivateEyes Gaze-Preserving Anonymization for Data Sharing
- CVPR 2026Reinforcement-Guided Synthetic Data Generation for Privacy-Sensitive Identity Recognition
- CVPR 2026Role-SynthCLIP A Role-Play Driven Diverse Synthetic Data Approach
- CVPR 2026UnReflectAnything RGB-Only Highlight Removal by Rendering Synthetic Specular Supervision
- CVPR 2026Vanast Virtual Try-On with Human Image Animation via Synthetic Triplet
- CVPR 2026Whats Wrong with Synthetic Data for Scene Text Recognition A
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FAQ
- How many Synthetic Data papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?
- 169 in total: 54 in 2023, 33 in 2024, 32 in 2025, 50 in 2026.
- How many Synthetic Data papers are at NeurIPS 2026?
- NeurIPS 2026 has 18 Synthetic Data papers, versus 8 the year before.
- How many Synthetic Data papers are at ICLR 2026?
- ICLR 2026 has 4 Synthetic Data papers, versus 7 the year before.
- How many Synthetic Data papers are at ICML 2026?
- ICML 2026 has 14 Synthetic Data papers, versus 9 the year before.
- How many Synthetic Data papers are at CVPR 2026?
- CVPR 2026 has 14 Synthetic Data papers, versus 8 the year before.
- Which conference publishes the most Synthetic Data papers?
- NeurIPS, with 64 papers from 2023 to 2026.