Code Generation papers, 2023–2026
Program synthesis and code LLMs
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 2,161 papers are tagged with this topic.
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.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 29 | 55 | 31 | 95 | 210 |
| 2024 | 135 | 66 | 111 | 134 | 446 |
| 2025 | 230 | 164 | 79 | 172 | 645 |
| 2026 | 236 | 241 | 174 | 209 | 860 |
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
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- CVPR 2024Text2QR: Harmonizing Aesthetic Customization and Scanning Robustness for Text-Guided QR Code Generation
- CVPR 2024TIGER: Time-Varying Denoising Model for 3D Point Cloud Generation with Diffusion Process
- CVPR 2024Towards a Simultaneous and Granular Identity-Expression Control in Personalized Face Generation
- CVPR 2024Towards Automated Movie Trailer Generation
- CVPR 2024Towards Realistic Scene Generation with LiDAR Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024Towards Variable and Coordinated Holistic Co-Speech Motion Generation
- CVPR 2024Training-Free Pretrained Model Merging
- CVPR 2024UniGS: Unified Representation for Image Generation and Segmentation
- CVPR 2024UV-IDM: Identity-Conditioned Latent Diffusion Model for Face UV-Texture Generation
- CVPR 2024VecFusion: Vector Font Generation with Diffusion
- CVPR 2024Vector Graphics Generation via Mutually Impulsed Dual-domain Diffusion
- CVPR 2024Visual Fact Checker: Enabling High-Fidelity Detailed Caption Generation
- CVPR 2024WANDR: Intention-guided Human Motion Generation
- CVPR 2024Weakly-Supervised Emotion Transition Learning for Diverse 3D Co-speech Gesture Generation
- CVPR 2024When StyleGAN Meets Stable Diffusion: a W+ Adapter for Personalized Image Generation
- CVPR 20233D Neural Field Generation Using Triplane Diffusion
- CVPR 2023Adaptive Data-Free Quantization
- CVPR 2023AdaptiveMix: Improving GAN Training via Feature Space Shrinkage
- CVPR 2023ALTO: Alternating Latent Topologies for Implicit 3D Reconstruction
- CVPR 2023AnchorFormer: Point Cloud Completion From Discriminative Nodes
- CVPR 2023Attribute-Preserving Face Dataset Anonymization via Latent Code Optimization
- CVPR 2023Backdoor Cleansing With Unlabeled Data
- CVPR 2023BAD-NeRF: Bundle Adjusted Deblur Neural Radiance Fields
- CVPR 2023CF-Font: Content Fusion for Few-Shot Font Generation
- CVPR 2023CFA: Class-Wise Calibrated Fair Adversarial Training
- CVPR 2023CLIP-Sculptor: Zero-Shot Generation of High-Fidelity and Diverse Shapes From Natural Language
- CVPR 2023Collaborative Diffusion for Multi-Modal Face Generation and Editing
- CVPR 2023Computational Flash Photography Through Intrinsics
- CVPR 2023Conditional Image-to-Video Generation With Latent Flow Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2023Conjugate Product Graphs for Globally Optimal 2D-3D Shape Matching
- CVPR 2023Controllable Mesh Generation Through Sparse Latent Point Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2023DA Wand: Distortion-Aware Selection Using Neural Mesh Parameterization
- CVPR 2023DAA: A Delta Age AdaIN Operation for Age Estimation via Binary Code Transformer
- CVPR 2023DeepVecFont-v2: Exploiting Transformers To Synthesize Vector Fonts With Higher Quality
- CVPR 2023Devil's on the Edges: Selective Quad Attention for Scene Graph Generation
- CVPR 2023DiffCollage: Parallel Generation of Large Content With Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2023Diffusion-Based Signed Distance Fields for 3D Shape Generation
- CVPR 2023Dimensionality-Varying Diffusion Process
- CVPR 2023DisCoScene: Spatially Disentangled Generative Radiance Fields for Controllable 3D-Aware Scene Synthesis
- CVPR 2023Disentangling Writer and Character Styles for Handwriting Generation
- CVPR 2023DrapeNet: Garment Generation and Self-Supervised Draping
- CVPR 2023Dual-Bridging With Adversarial Noise Generation for Domain Adaptive rPPG Estimation
- CVPR 2023DualVector: Unsupervised Vector Font Synthesis With Dual-Part Representation
- CVPR 2023Executing Your Commands via Motion Diffusion in Latent Space
- CVPR 2023Feature Representation Learning With Adaptive Displacement Generation and Transformer Fusion for Micro-Expression Recognition
- CVPR 2023FeatureBooster: Boosting Feature Descriptors With a Lightweight Neural Network
- CVPR 2023FLAG3D: A 3D Fitness Activity Dataset With Language Instruction
- CVPR 2023Freestyle Layout-to-Image Synthesis
- CVPR 2023Graph Transformer GANs for Graph-Constrained House Generation
- CVPR 2023High-Fidelity 3D Face Generation From Natural Language Descriptions
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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.