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

Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up

• 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 2025FuncGenFoil: Airfoil Generation and Editing Model in Function Space
502. NeurIPS 2025Fused View-Time Attention and Feedforward Reconstruction for 4D Scene Generation
503. NeurIPS 2025Generating Computational Cognitive models using Large Language Models
504. NeurIPS 2025GeoCAD: Local Geometry-Controllable CAD Generation with Large Language Models
505. NeurIPS 2025GPSToken: Gaussian Parameterized Spatially-adaptive Tokenization for Image Representation and Generation
506. NeurIPS 2025Greed is Good: A Unifying Perspective on Guided Generation
507. NeurIPS 2025HairFree: Compositional 2D Head Prior for Text-Driven 360° Bald Texture Synthesis
508. NeurIPS 2025Hawk: Leveraging Spatial Context for Faster Autoregressive Text-to-Image Generation
509. NeurIPS 2025HBLLM: Wavelet-Enhanced High-Fidelity 1-Bit Quantization for LLMs
510. NeurIPS 2025Hierarchical Koopman Diffusion: Fast Generation with Interpretable Diffusion Trajectory
511. NeurIPS 2025HiFlow: Training-free High-Resolution Image Generation with Flow-Aligned Guidance
512. NeurIPS 2025Hogwild! Inference: Parallel LLM Generation via Concurrent Attention
513. NeurIPS 2025HyPlaneHead: Rethinking Tri-plane-like Representations in Full-Head Image Synthesis
514. NeurIPS 2025Improving Regret Approximation for Unsupervised Dynamic Environment Generation
515. NeurIPS 2025Improving the Euclidean Diffusion Generation of Manifold Data by Mitigating Score Function Singularity
516. NeurIPS 2025Inference-Time Scaling for Flow Models via Stochastic Generation and Rollover Budget Forcing
517. NeurIPS 2025Influence Guided Context Selection for Effective Retrieval-Augmented Generation
518. NeurIPS 2025InstanceAssemble: Layout-Aware Image Generation via Instance Assembling Attention
519. NeurIPS 2025InstructFlow: Adaptive Symbolic Constraint-Guided Code Generation for Long-Horizon Planning
520. NeurIPS 2025IntrinsiX: High-Quality PBR Generation using Image Priors
521. NeurIPS 2025Joint Relational Database Generation via Graph-Conditional Diffusion Models
522. NeurIPS 2025Keep It on a Leash: Controllable Pseudo-label Generation Towards Realistic Long-Tailed Semi-Supervised Learning
523. NeurIPS 2025KVLink: Accelerating Large Language Models via Efficient KV Cache Reuse
524. NeurIPS 2025KVzip: Query-Agnostic KV Cache Compression with Context Reconstruction
525. NeurIPS 2025Large Language Diffusion Models
526. NeurIPS 2025Lessons Learned: A Multi-Agent Framework for Code LLMs to Learn and Improve
527. NeurIPS 2025Let's Revise Step-by-Step: A Unified Local Search Framework for Code Generation with LLMs
528. NeurIPS 2025LeVo: High-Quality Song Generation with Multi-Preference Alignment
529. NeurIPS 2025Limited Preference Data? Learning Better Reward Model with Latent Space Synthesis
530. NeurIPS 2025LLM Meets Diffusion: A Hybrid Framework for Crystal Material Generation
531. NeurIPS 2025LMFusion: Adapting Pretrained Language Models for Multimodal Generation
532. NeurIPS 2025Machine Unlearning in 3D Generation: A Perspective-Coherent Acceleration Framework
533. NeurIPS 2025Magical: Medical Lay Language Generation via Semantic Invariance and Layperson-tailored Adaptation
534. NeurIPS 2025MaintainCoder: Maintainable Code Generation Under Dynamic Requirements
535. NeurIPS 2025Matching Markets Meet LLMs: Algorithmic Reasoning with Ranked Preferences
536. NeurIPS 2025Matryoshka Pilot: Learning to Drive Black-Box LLMs with LLMs
537. NeurIPS 2025MEGADance: Mixture-of-Experts Architecture for Genre-Aware 3D Dance Generation
538. NeurIPS 2025MeshCoder: LLM-Powered Structured Mesh Code Generation from Point Clouds
539. NeurIPS 2025MetaDefense: Defending Fine-tuning based Jailbreak Attack Before and During Generation
540. NeurIPS 2025Metis: A Foundation Speech Generation Model with Masked Generative Pre-training
541. NeurIPS 2025MigGPT: Harnessing Large Language Models for Automated Migration of Out-of-Tree Linux Kernel Patches Across Versions
542. NeurIPS 2025Mind the Quote: Enabling Quotation-Aware Dialogue in LLMs via Plug-and-Play Modules
543. NeurIPS 2025MIND: Material Interface Generation from UDFs for Non-Manifold Surface Reconstruction
544. NeurIPS 2025Mixture of Inputs: Text Generation Beyond Discrete Token Sampling
545. NeurIPS 2025More Than Generation: Unifying Generation and Depth Estimation via Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
546. NeurIPS 2025More Than Just Functional: LLM-as-a-Critique for Efficient Code Generation
547. NeurIPS 2025Multiverse: Your Language Models Secretly Decide How to Parallelize and Merge Generation
548. NeurIPS 2025Neither Valid nor Reliable? Investigating the Use of LLMs as Judges
549. NeurIPS 2025NeuroGenPoisoning: Neuron-Guided Attacks on Retrieval-Augmented Generation of LLM via Genetic Optimization of External Knowledge
550. NeurIPS 2025NeuroPath: Neurobiology-Inspired Path Tracking and Reflection for Semantically Coherent Retrieval

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.