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

2,161 papers, page 17 of 44

801. NeurIPS 2026Representation Fréchet Loss for Visual Generation
802. NeurIPS 2026Rethinking Personalized Generation: Test-time Alignment via Factorized Ranking Models
803. NeurIPS 2026RevengeBench: Reverse Engineering Code-Space Policies from Behavioral Experiments
804. NeurIPS 2026Reward Shaping to Improve Language Model Query Generation
805. NeurIPS 2026RoboExo: Structure-Guided Wrist-to-Exocentric Video Generation for Scalable Robot Learning
806. NeurIPS 2026s2n-bignum-bench: A practical benchmark for evaluating low-level code reasoning of LLMs
807. NeurIPS 2026Safe Few-Step Generation via Velocity Editing
808. NeurIPS 2026SAGE: Semantic Ambiguity Guided Capacity Expansion for Retrieval-Augmented Generation
809. NeurIPS 2026SDFlow: Similarity-Driven Flow Matching for Time Series Generation
810. NeurIPS 2026Selected-Tail Reliability in Verifier-Guided Best-of-$N$ Inference
811. NeurIPS 2026SemGeo-Gen: Unsupervised Generation of Approximate Cross-Instance Semantic-Geometric Correspondences
812. NeurIPS 2026SemISP: Semantic-Consistent Diffusion for Cross-Camera RAW-to-sRGB Generation
813. NeurIPS 2026SILSA: Sliding-Window Slice Latents for Topology-Preserving High-Resolution 3D Generation
814. NeurIPS 2026Simple Baselines are Competitive with Code Evolution
815. NeurIPS 2026Simple Test-Time Refinement for Plot-to-Code Generation via Visual-Code Diagnostics
816. NeurIPS 2026SimSD: Simple Speculative Decoding in Diffusion Language Models
817. NeurIPS 2026SimWorld Studio: Automatic Environment Generation with Evolving Coding Agent for Embodied Agent Learning
818. NeurIPS 2026SliceWorld: A Predictive and Controllable World-State Model for CT Report Generation
819. NeurIPS 2026Source-Causal Control of Historical Context in Longitudinal Radiology Report Generation
820. NeurIPS 2026Spatially Feasible 3D Indoor Scene Generation via Interaction-Oriented Human Proxy
821. NeurIPS 2026Spherical Boltzmann machines: a solvable theory of learning and generation in energy-based models
822. NeurIPS 2026SPRING: Solver-guided Process Rewards for Novel Logical Reasoning Steps Generation
823. NeurIPS 2026Steering Fields: Adaptive Vector Fields for Safe Image Generation and Beyond
824. NeurIPS 2026StepCAD: Mesh-to-CAD Code Generation via LLM Policy and Geometry-Guided Search
825. NeurIPS 2026Structural Self-Teaching for Compositional Generation in Unified Multimodal Models
826. NeurIPS 2026SwitchLingua V2: Agent-Driven Code-Switching via Digital Clones
827. NeurIPS 2026SynBench: A Benchmark for Differentially Private Text Generation
828. NeurIPS 2026SynMQG: Disentanglement and Mutual-Information Optimization for Synergistic Multi-modal Question Generation
829. NeurIPS 2026Synthon Contrastive Learning for Synthesizable 3D Molecule Generation
830. NeurIPS 2026TaxaAdapter: Scaling Fine-grained Species Image Generation To the Tree of Life
831. NeurIPS 2026TGPO: Trace-Guided Policy Optimization for Robot Task Planning via Verifiable Subgoal Generation
832. NeurIPS 2026The Future of Facts: Tracing the Factual Generation-Verification Gap
833. NeurIPS 2026The Sharp Directions Are Against You: Curvature Analysis of Activation Steering
834. NeurIPS 2026The Sign Code: The Hidden Binary Nature of Deep Networks
835. NeurIPS 2026The Unembedding Bottleneck: A Mechanistic Analysis of Single Digit Counting in LLMs
836. NeurIPS 2026TimeTok: Granularity-Controllable Time-Series Generation via Hierarchical Tokenization
837. NeurIPS 2026TKCAM: Text and Keyframe to Camera Trajectory Generation
838. NeurIPS 2026Tokenizer-Generator Coupling in Medical Image Generation
839. NeurIPS 2026Toward Executable Multi-framework Front-end Code Generation with Self-Correction
840. NeurIPS 2026Toward Interactive Understanding of Code APIs
841. NeurIPS 2026Towards Direct Latent-Space Synthesis for Parallel Branches in LLM-Agent Workflows
842. NeurIPS 2026TransitLM: A Large-Scale Dataset and Benchmark for Map-Free Transit Route Generation
843. NeurIPS 2026Trellis4D: Complex 4D Mesh Generation
844. NeurIPS 2026UniPath: Adaptive Coordination of Understanding and Generation for Unified Multimodal Reasoning
845. NeurIPS 2026UniSHARP: Universal Sharp Monocular View Synthesis
846. NeurIPS 2026Useful Memories Become Faulty When Continuously Updated by LLMs
847. NeurIPS 2026Veri-Sure: Multi-Agent RTL Code Generation with Temporal Tracing, Slicing and Formal Verification
848. NeurIPS 2026VeriContest: A Competitive-Programming Benchmark for Verifiable Code Generation
849. NeurIPS 2026Verification-Guided Abstraction Generation with Large Language Models for Generalized Planning
850. NeurIPS 2026Verifier-Backed Hard Problem Generation for Mathematical Reasoning

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.