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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751. NeurIPS 2026LLMs Optimizing LLMs: Automated MegaKernel Generation for Inference Acceleration
752. NeurIPS 2026LLMs Show No Signs Of Individuated Metacognition
753. NeurIPS 2026LoopNav: Benchmarking Spatial Consistency in World Models
754. NeurIPS 2026LoopWeaver: Weaving Feedback Loops into Hierarchical Generation under Constraints
755. NeurIPS 2026Machine Unlearning in Diffusion LLMs
756. NeurIPS 2026Matchability-Aware Conformal Prediction for Open-Ended Language Model Generation
757. NeurIPS 2026MDMR-Bench: A Multi-Dimensional Benchmark for Multi-Reference Image Generation
758. NeurIPS 2026Measuring Layer-wise Intrinsic Dimensionality of FFNs in LLMs via PCA
759. NeurIPS 2026MedIGen: Reliable Medical Illustration Generation via Interleaved Introspective Reasoning
760. NeurIPS 2026Mesh BDF: Barycentric Dominance Field for 3D Native Mesh Generation
761. NeurIPS 2026MetaLoop: Benchmarking the Full Metacognitive Loop in LLMs
762. NeurIPS 2026MobTA: Bus-Conditioned Zero-Shot Trajectory Generation via Task Arithmetic
763. NeurIPS 2026MoCA: Mixture-of-Components Attention for Scalable Compositional 3D Generation
764. NeurIPS 2026MoCAR: Motion-code Coordinate-aware AutoRegression for Continuous Trajectory Forecasting
765. NeurIPS 2026Motion Forcing: Decoupling Ego and Object Motion via Sparse Inputs for Structured Video Generation
766. NeurIPS 2026N-vium: Mixture-of-Exits Transformer for Accelerated Exact Generation
767. NeurIPS 2026Natural-Language-Guided Protein Generation for Ligand-Binding Design
768. NeurIPS 2026NeuroSynTheos: Learning to accelerate counterexample-guided reactive synthesis modulo theories
769. NeurIPS 2026NIV: Neural Axis Variations for Variable Font Generation
770. NeurIPS 2026Norm Anchors Make Model Edits Last
771. NeurIPS 2026On the Price of Privacy for Language Identification and Generation
772. NeurIPS 2026On-Policy Distillation with Open Property-Equivalence Reward for LLM-Based NL-to-SVA Generation
773. NeurIPS 2026One View Is Enough: In-the-Wild Monocular Pretraining for Novel View Generation
774. NeurIPS 2026OopsWorld! Operation-Grounded Seamless World Generation
775. NeurIPS 2026Orthrus: Memory-Efficient Parallel Token Generation via Dual-View Diffusion
776. NeurIPS 2026OverLay++: Dense-Overlap Layout-to-Image Generation Dataset
777. NeurIPS 2026P-EAGLE: Parallel-Drafting EAGLE with Scalable Training
778. NeurIPS 2026P$^{3}$: Joint Program-and-Proof Planning\\ for Verified Code Generation
779. NeurIPS 2026Panoptic Scene Program Diffusion Transformer
780. NeurIPS 2026Parallel Rollout Approximation for Pixel-Space Autoregressive Image Generation
781. NeurIPS 2026PBT-Bench: Benchmarking AI Agents on Property-Based Testing
782. NeurIPS 2026Permit: Permission-Aware Representation Intervention for Controlled Generation in Large Language Models
783. NeurIPS 2026Phase-wise MLLM Tuning for Multi-framework WebUI Code Generation
784. NeurIPS 2026PhysAgentGym: Free Physical-Law Verifiers for Training Small Code-Reasoning Agents
785. NeurIPS 2026Population-Aligned Persona Generation for LLM-based Social Simulation
786. NeurIPS 2026Prefix Likelihood-Ratio Control: Tail-Stable Training for Long-Horizon Language Generation
787. NeurIPS 2026Primal Generation, Dual Judgment: Self-Training from Test-Time Scaling
788. NeurIPS 2026Primal-Dual Flow Matching for Sample-Wise Constrained Generation
789. NeurIPS 2026PRO: Enabling Precise and Robust Text Watermark for Open-Source LLMs
790. NeurIPS 2026Property-Guided LLM Program Synthesis for Planning
791. NeurIPS 2026PSD: Pushing the Pareto Frontier of Diffusion LLMs via Parallel Speculative Decoding
792. NeurIPS 2026RAVEL: Rare Concept Generation and Editing via Graph-driven Relational Guidance
793. NeurIPS 2026Re-evaluating Confidence Remasking in Masked Diffusion Language Models
794. NeurIPS 2026Recursive Language Models
795. NeurIPS 2026Refactoring Code Through Library Design
796. NeurIPS 2026REFLEX: RNA Ensemble Generation via Flexibility-Calibrated Stochastic Bridge
797. NeurIPS 2026Reinforcement Learning for Code Optimization
798. NeurIPS 2026Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Physics: Post-training LLMs for PDE Solver Generation
799. NeurIPS 2026Render Structure Uncertainty for HTML Repair in MLLM-based UI-to-Code Generation
800. NeurIPS 2026RepoZero: Can LLMs Generate a Code Repository from Scratch?

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.