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

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501. NeurIPS 2024Director3D: Real-world Camera Trajectory and 3D Scene Generation from Text
502. NeurIPS 2024Discrete-state Continuous-time Diffusion for Graph Generation
503. NeurIPS 2024Divide-and-Conquer Meets Consensus: Unleashing the Power of Functions in Code Generation
504. NeurIPS 2024DreamScene4D: Dynamic Multi-Object Scene Generation from Monocular Videos
505. NeurIPS 2024DuQuant: Distributing Outliers via Dual Transformation Makes Stronger Quantized LLMs
506. NeurIPS 2024EffiBench: Benchmarking the Efficiency of Automatically Generated Code
507. NeurIPS 2024EffiLearner: Enhancing Efficiency of Generated Code via Self-Optimization
508. NeurIPS 2024EgoSim: An Egocentric Multi-view Simulator and Real Dataset for Body-worn Cameras during Motion and Activity
509. NeurIPS 2024Einsum Benchmark: Enabling the Development of Next-Generation Tensor Execution Engines
510. NeurIPS 2024ENAT: Rethinking Spatial-temporal Interactions in Token-based Image Synthesis
511. NeurIPS 2024Equivariant Neural Diffusion for Molecule Generation
512. NeurIPS 2024Era3D: High-Resolution Multiview Diffusion using Efficient Row-wise Attention
513. NeurIPS 2024Erasing Undesirable Concepts in Diffusion Models with Adversarial Preservation
514. NeurIPS 2024EvoCodeBench: An Evolving Code Generation Benchmark with Domain-Specific Evaluations
515. NeurIPS 2024Exploring DCN-like architecture for fast image generation with arbitrary resolution
516. NeurIPS 2024Face2QR: A Unified Framework for Aesthetic, Face-Preserving, and Scannable QR Code Generation
517. NeurIPS 2024FlowTurbo: Towards Real-time Flow-Based Image Generation with Velocity Refiner
518. NeurIPS 2024From Instance Training to Instruction Learning: Task Adapters Generation from Instructions
519. NeurIPS 2024FuseAnyPart: Diffusion-Driven Facial Parts Swapping via Multiple Reference Images
520. NeurIPS 2024GAVEL: Generating Games via Evolution and Language Models
521. NeurIPS 2024Gorilla: Large Language Model Connected with Massive APIs
522. NeurIPS 2024Grammar-Aligned Decoding
523. NeurIPS 2024Grasp as You Say: Language-guided Dexterous Grasp Generation
524. NeurIPS 2024Guided Trajectory Generation with Diffusion Models for Offline Model-based Optimization
525. NeurIPS 2024Guiding a Diffusion Model with a Bad Version of Itself
526. NeurIPS 2024HARMONIC: Harnessing LLMs for Tabular Data Synthesis and Privacy Protection
527. NeurIPS 2024Hierarchical Programmatic Option Framework
528. NeurIPS 2024Hints-In-Browser: Benchmarking Language Models for Programming Feedback Generation
529. NeurIPS 2024HumanVid: Demystifying Training Data for Camera-controllable Human Image Animation
530. NeurIPS 2024Hypothesis Testing the Circuit Hypothesis in LLMs
531. NeurIPS 2024IaC-Eval: A Code Generation Benchmark for Cloud Infrastructure-as-Code Programs
532. NeurIPS 2024IDGen: Item Discrimination Induced Prompt Generation for LLM Evaluation
533. NeurIPS 2024IF-Font: Ideographic Description Sequence-Following Font Generation
534. NeurIPS 2024Image Understanding Makes for A Good Tokenizer for Image Generation
535. NeurIPS 2024IMAGPose: A Unified Conditional Framework for Pose-Guided Person Generation
536. NeurIPS 2024Improved Distribution Matching Distillation for Fast Image Synthesis
537. NeurIPS 2024Improved Generation of Adversarial Examples Against Safety-aligned LLMs
538. NeurIPS 2024INDICT: Code Generation with Internal Dialogues of Critiques for Both Security and Helpfulness
539. NeurIPS 2024InfiBench: Evaluating the Question-Answering Capabilities of Code Large Language Models
540. NeurIPS 2024IntraMix: Intra-Class Mixup Generation for Accurate Labels and Neighbors
541. NeurIPS 2024IRCAN: Mitigating Knowledge Conflicts in LLM Generation via Identifying and Reweighting Context-Aware Neurons
542. NeurIPS 2024Is Programming by Example Solved by LLMs?
543. NeurIPS 2024kGym: A Platform and Dataset to Benchmark Large Language Models on Linux Kernel Crash Resolution
544. NeurIPS 2024Language Generation in the Limit
545. NeurIPS 2024Language Without Borders: A Dataset and Benchmark for Code-Switching Lip Reading
546. NeurIPS 2024Language-Driven Interactive Traffic Trajectory Generation
547. NeurIPS 2024Learning to Reason via Program Generation, Emulation, and Search
548. NeurIPS 2024LeDex: Training LLMs to Better Self-Debug and Explain Code
549. NeurIPS 2024LLMDFA: Analyzing Dataflow in Code with Large Language Models
550. NeurIPS 2024Mercury: A Code Efficiency Benchmark for Code Large Language Models

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.