Code Generation papers, 2023–2026

Key findings

• Code Generation went from 210 papers in 2023 to 860 in 2026, roughly 4.1x in three years.
• NeurIPS publishes the most Code Generation work: 630 papers from 2023 to 2026, 29% of the four-venue total.
• The fastest-growing overlap is with AI Agents: papers tagged with both rose from 0 in 2023 to 93 in 2026.
• Among the 5 topics under Natural Language, it ranks #1 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, is up 5.4x versus 4.1x here.

Representative papers

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• NeurIPS 2026A Theoretical Analysis of Test-Driven Code Generation
• ICML 2026$A_2$DEPT: Large Language Model–Driven Automated Algorithm Design via Evolutionary Program Trees
• ICLR 2026A Bayesian Nonparametric Framework for Private, Fair, and Balanced Tabular Data Synthesis
• CVPR 2026ACPV-Net All-Class Polygonal Vectorization for Seamless Vector Map Generation from
• NeurIPS 2025$\texttt{STRCMP}$: Integrating Graph Structural Priors with Language Models for Combinatorial Optimization
• ICML 2025AlphaVerus: Bootstrapping Formally Verified Code Generation through Self-Improving Translation and Treefinement
• ICLR 2025Automated Proof Generation for Rust Code via Self-Evolution
• CVPR 2025ArtFormer: Controllable Generation of Diverse 3D Articulated Objects
• NeurIPS 2024AMBROSIA: A Benchmark for Parsing Ambiguous Questions into Database Queries
• ICML 2024ACM-MILP: Adaptive Constraint Modification via Grouping and Selection for Hardness-Preserving MILP Instance Generation
• ICLR 2024CODE REPRESENTATION LEARNING AT SCALE
• CVPR 2024Desigen: A Pipeline for Controllable Design Template Generation
• NeurIPS 2023ANPL: Towards Natural Programming with Interactive Decomposition
• ICML 2023Can Large Language Models Reason about Program Invariants?
• ICLR 2023Binding Language Models in Symbolic Languages
• CVPR 2023Attribute-Preserving Face Dataset Anonymization via Latent Code Optimization
• NeurIPS 2026A Theory of Time-Sensitive Language Generation: Sparse Hallucination Beats Mode Collapse
• ICML 2026Beyond Problem Solving: UOJ-Bench for Evaluating Code Generation, Hacking, and Repair in Competitive Programming
• ICLR 2026AssetFormer: Modular 3D Assets Generation with Autoregressive Transformer
• CVPR 2026Animator-Centric Skeleton Generation on Objects with Fine-Grained Details

All Code Generation papers

526 papers, page 10 of 11

451. ICLR 2024PanoDiffusion: 360-degree Panorama Outpainting via Diffusion
452. ICLR 2024Personalize Segment Anything Model with One Shot
453. ICLR 2024PnP Inversion: Boosting Diffusion-based Editing with 3 Lines of Code
454. ICLR 2024Privacy-Preserving In-Context Learning with Differentially Private Few-Shot Generation
455. ICLR 2024Real3D-Portrait: One-shot Realistic 3D Talking Portrait Synthesis
456. ICLR 2024RepoBench: Benchmarking Repository-Level Code Auto-Completion Systems
457. ICLR 2024Self-RAG: Learning to Retrieve, Generate, and Critique through Self-Reflection
458. ICLR 2024Sin3DM: Learning a Diffusion Model from a Single 3D Textured Shape
459. ICLR 2024Skeleton-of-Thought: Prompting LLMs for Efficient Parallel Generation
460. ICLR 2024Solving Challenging Math Word Problems Using GPT-4 Code Interpreter with Code-based Self-Verification
461. ICLR 2024Spatially-Aware Transformers for Embodied Agents
462. ICLR 2024Symphony: Symmetry-Equivariant Point-Centered Spherical Harmonics for 3D Molecule Generation
463. ICLR 2024Teaching Large Language Models to Self-Debug
464. ICLR 2024Tell Your Model Where to Attend: Post-hoc Attention Steering for LLMs
465. ICLR 2024The Consensus Game: Language Model Generation via Equilibrium Search
466. ICLR 2024The Reversal Curse: LLMs trained on “A is B” fail to learn “B is A”
467. ICLR 2024Towards Aligned Layout Generation via Diffusion Model with Aesthetic Constraints
468. ICLR 2024Towards Codable Watermarking for Injecting Multi-Bits Information to LLMs
469. ICLR 2024TUVF: Learning Generalizable Texture UV Radiance Fields
470. ICLR 2024WizardCoder: Empowering Code Large Language Models with Evol-Instruct
471. ICLR 2024Zero Bubble (Almost) Pipeline Parallelism
472. ICLR 20233D Equivariant Diffusion for Target-Aware Molecule Generation and Affinity Prediction
473. ICLR 20233D generation on ImageNet
474. ICLR 2023An Image is Worth One Word: Personalizing Text-to-Image Generation using Textual Inversion
475. ICLR 2023Ask Me Anything: A simple strategy for prompting language models
476. ICLR 2023BigVGAN: A Universal Neural Vocoder with Large-Scale Training
477. ICLR 2023Binding Language Models in Symbolic Languages
478. ICLR 2023Bort: Towards Explainable Neural Networks with Bounded Orthogonal Constraint
479. ICLR 2023Calibrating Sequence likelihood Improves Conditional Language Generation
480. ICLR 2023CASR: Generating Complex Sequences with Autoregressive Self-Boost Refinement
481. ICLR 2023Code Translation with Compiler Representations
482. ICLR 2023CodeBPE: Investigating Subtokenization Options for Large Language Model Pretraining on Source Code
483. ICLR 2023CodeGen: An Open Large Language Model for Code with Multi-Turn Program Synthesis
484. ICLR 2023CodeT: Code Generation with Generated Tests
485. ICLR 2023De Novo Molecular Generation via Connection-aware Motif Mining
486. ICLR 2023Decompositional Generation Process for Instance-Dependent Partial Label Learning
487. ICLR 2023Denoising Diffusion Error Correction Codes
488. ICLR 2023DiGress: Discrete Denoising diffusion for graph generation
489. ICLR 2023Dilated convolution with learnable spacings
490. ICLR 2023DocPrompting: Generating Code by Retrieving the Docs
491. ICLR 2023EVA3D: Compositional 3D Human Generation from 2D Image Collections
492. ICLR 2023Evidential Uncertainty and Diversity Guided Active Learning for Scene Graph Generation
493. ICLR 2023Few-shot Cross-domain Image Generation via Inference-time Latent-code Learning
494. ICLR 2023FunkNN: Neural Interpolation for Functional Generation
495. ICLR 2023Generating Sequences by Learning to Self-Correct
496. ICLR 2023Images as Weight Matrices: Sequential Image Generation Through Synaptic Learning Rules
497. ICLR 2023InCoder: A Generative Model for Code Infilling and Synthesis
498. ICLR 2023IS SYNTHETIC DATA FROM GENERATIVE MODELS READY FOR IMAGE RECOGNITION?
499. ICLR 2023Iterative Circuit Repair Against Formal Specifications
500. ICLR 2023Language Models are Realistic Tabular Data Generators

FAQ

How many Code Generation papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?

2,161 in total: 210 in 2023, 446 in 2024, 645 in 2025, 860 in 2026.

How many Code Generation papers are at NeurIPS 2026?

NeurIPS 2026 has 236 Code Generation papers, versus 230 the year before.

How many Code Generation papers are at ICLR 2026?

ICLR 2026 has 241 Code Generation papers, versus 164 the year before.

How many Code Generation papers are at ICML 2026?

ICML 2026 has 174 Code Generation papers, versus 79 the year before.

How many Code Generation papers are at CVPR 2026?

CVPR 2026 has 209 Code Generation papers, versus 172 the year before.

Which conference publishes the most Code Generation papers?

NeurIPS, with 630 papers from 2023 to 2026.