Synthetic Data papers, 2023–2026

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.

Representative papers

Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up

• 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

19 papers, page 1 of 1

1. ICLR 2026Achieving Expert-Level Agent from Foundation Model via Complexity Curriculum Reinforcement Learning with Synthetic Data
2. ICLR 2026Entropy-preserving reinforcement learning
3. ICLR 2026High-dimensional Analysis of Synthetic Data Selection
4. ICLR 2026Synthetic Bootstrapped Pretraining
5. ICLR 2025Does Training with Synthetic Data Truly Protect Privacy?
6. ICLR 2025Fictitious Synthetic Data Can Improve LLM Factuality via Prerequisite Learning
7. ICLR 2025GeoILP: A Synthetic Dataset to Guide Large-Scale Rule Induction
8. ICLR 2025HyperFace: Generating Synthetic Face Recognition Datasets by Exploring Face Embedding Hypersphere
9. ICLR 2025Self-Boosting Large Language Models with Synthetic Preference Data
10. ICLR 2025Strong Model Collapse
11. ICLR 2025UIFace: Unleashing Inherent Model Capabilities to Enhance Intra-Class Diversity in Synthetic Face Recognition
12. ICLR 2024Differentially Private Synthetic Data via Foundation Model APIs 1: Images
13. ICLR 2024Pre-training with Synthetic Data Helps Offline Reinforcement Learning
14. ICLR 2024Teaching Language Models to Hallucinate Less with Synthetic Tasks
15. ICLR 2023Emergent World Representations: Exploring a Sequence Model Trained on a Synthetic Task
16. ICLR 2023Learning topology-preserving data representations
17. ICLR 2023Statistical Theory of Differentially Private Marginal-based Data Synthesis Algorithms
18. ICLR 2023Synthetic Data Generation of Many-to-Many Datasets via Random Graph Generation
19. ICLR 2023Trainability Preserving Neural Pruning

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.