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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551. ICML 2026LitReview Arena: Evaluating Literature Review Agents with Battle-style Peer Review Platform
552. ICML 2026LLM-Guided Loop Bound Generation for Program Termination Verification
553. ICML 2026LLMs Lean on Priors, Not Programming Language Semantics
554. ICML 2026Locally Coherent Parallel Decoding in Diffusion Language Models
555. ICML 2026MALICE: Memory-aware Loop Invariants Generation on Symbolic Execution Traces
556. ICML 2026MatchFixAgent: Language-Agnostic Autonomous Repository-Level Code Translation Validation and Repair
557. ICML 2026MiniAppBench: Evaluating the Shift from Text to Interactive HTML Responses in LLM-Powered Assistants
558. ICML 2026Mitigating Bias in Locally Constrained Decoding via Tractable Proposals
559. ICML 2026Mosaic: Unlocking Over 30$\times$ Context Length for Diffusion LLMs Inference via Global Memory Planning and Dynamic Peak Taming
560. ICML 2026Motion-Aware Caching for Efficient Autoregressive Video Generation
561. ICML 2026MulFCoder: Framework-conditioned Multi-agent for MLLM-based Multi-framework Front-end Code Generation
562. ICML 2026NNiT: Width-Agnostic Neural Network Generation with Structurally Aligned Weight Spaces
563. ICML 2026One Bug, Hundreds Behind: LLMs for Large-Scale Bug Discovery
564. ICML 2026OpenSage: Self-programming Agent Generation Engine
565. ICML 2026PADA-Coder: Improving Plan-Following Code Generation via Perturbation-Verified Attention Distillation and Dynamic Alignment
566. ICML 2026Pair2Scene: Learning Local Object Relations for Procedural Scene Generation
567. ICML 2026ParEVO: Synthesizing Code for Irregular Data: High-Performance Parallelism through Agentic Evolution
568. ICML 2026Periodic Bayesian Flow Networks with Additive Accuracy
569. ICML 2026PGS: Effective LLM Code Refinement via Property-Oriented and Structurally Minimal Feedback
570. ICML 2026PhyScene3D: Physically Consistent 3D Interactive Tabletop Scene Generation
571. ICML 2026Planar Symmetric Pattern Generation
572. ICML 2026PlotCraft: Pushing the Limits of LLMs for Complex and Interactive Data Visualization
573. ICML 2026Poison with Style: A Practical Poisoning Attack on Code Large Language Models
574. ICML 2026PrivCode++: Latent-Conditioned Differentially Private Code Generation for Comprehensive Guarantees
575. ICML 2026ProOPF: Benchmarking and Improving LLMs for Professional-Grade Power Systems Optimization Modeling
576. ICML 2026Propose, Solve, Verify: Self-Play Through Formal Verification
577. ICML 2026Q-Delta: Beyond Key–Value Associative State Evolution
578. ICML 2026Q-Tab: Quantized Tabular Data Generator
579. ICML 2026QiMeng-LibBench: Benchmarking LLM Agents for Library-Scale Cross-Architecture Migration
580. ICML 2026Random Selection Reveals Implicit Knowledge Consensus in Code Generation
581. ICML 2026Ranking Free RAG: Replacing Re-ranking with Selection in RAG for Sensitive Domains
582. ICML 2026Regression Language Models for Code
583. ICML 2026Reranker Helps, but Not Enough: Towards Strong Poisoning Attacks Against Retrieval-Augmented Generation
584. ICML 2026Rethinking Code Complexity Through the Lens of Large Language Models
585. ICML 2026Rooted Absorbed Prefix Trajectory Balance with Submodular Replay for GFlowNet Training
586. ICML 2026Routing by Reaching: Composition of Pre-trained GFlowNets for Multi-Objective Generation
587. ICML 2026Rubric Curriculum RL: Exploiting the Generation-Verification Gap in Non-Verifiable Domains
588. ICML 2026Rule2DRC: Benchmarking LLM Agents for DRC Script Synthesis with Execution-Guided Test Generation
589. ICML 2026S-Quant: Rethinking Weight Quantization with Seed-Based Generation
590. ICML 2026Scaling Agentic Verifier for Competitive Coding
591. ICML 2026Scam2Prompt: A Scalable Framework for Auditing Malicious Scam Endpoints in Production LLMs
592. ICML 2026ScenePilot: Controllable Boundary-Driven Critical Scenario Generation for Autonomous Driving
593. ICML 2026Score Based Error Correcting Code Decoder
594. ICML 2026SecCodePRM: A Process Reward Model for Code Security
595. ICML 2026Self-Supervised Learning as Discrete Communication
596. ICML 2026SemRep : Generative Code Representation Learning with Code Transformations
597. ICML 2026Should I Have Expressed a Different Intent? Counterfactual Generation for LLM-Based Autonomous Control
598. ICML 2026SimGFM: Simplifying Discrete Flow Matching for Graph Generation
599. ICML 2026Skip a Layer or Loop It? Learning Program-of-Layers in LLMs
600. ICML 2026SPADA: A Verifiable Test-Driven Agent for Controllable Parametric CAD Assembly Generation

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.