Code Generation papers, 2023–2026
Program synthesis and code LLMs
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 2,161 papers are tagged with this topic.
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.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 29 | 55 | 31 | 95 | 210 |
| 2024 | 135 | 66 | 111 | 134 | 446 |
| 2025 | 230 | 164 | 79 | 172 | 645 |
| 2026 | 236 | 241 | 174 | 209 | 860 |
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
95 papers, page 2 of 2
- CVPR 2023Learning Compact Representations for LiDAR Completion and Generation
- CVPR 2023LipFormer: High-Fidelity and Generalizable Talking Face Generation With a Pre-Learned Facial Codebook
- CVPR 2023MAGE: MAsked Generative Encoder To Unify Representation Learning and Image Synthesis
- CVPR 2023Make-a-Story: Visual Memory Conditioned Consistent Story Generation
- CVPR 2023MaskSketch: Unpaired Structure-Guided Masked Image Generation
- CVPR 2023MetaPortrait: Identity-Preserving Talking Head Generation With Fast Personalized Adaptation
- CVPR 2023METransformer: Radiology Report Generation by Transformer With Multiple Learnable Expert Tokens
- CVPR 2023MIME: Human-Aware 3D Scene Generation
- CVPR 2023MoDi: Unconditional Motion Synthesis From Diverse Data
- CVPR 2023MoStGAN-V: Video Generation With Temporal Motion Styles
- CVPR 2023Multiscale Tensor Decomposition and Rendering Equation Encoding for View Synthesis
- CVPR 2023NeRF-DS: Neural Radiance Fields for Dynamic Specular Objects
- CVPR 2023Neural Scene Chronology
- CVPR 2023Neural Texture Synthesis With Guided Correspondence
- CVPR 2023Neural Transformation Fields for Arbitrary-Styled Font Generation
- CVPR 2023NeuralField-LDM: Scene Generation With Hierarchical Latent Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2023NoisyTwins: Class-Consistent and Diverse Image Generation Through StyleGANs
- CVPR 2023Not All Image Regions Matter: Masked Vector Quantization for Autoregressive Image Generation
- CVPR 2023OmniAvatar: Geometry-Guided Controllable 3D Head Synthesis
- CVPR 2023Patch-Based 3D Natural Scene Generation From a Single Example
- CVPR 2023Picture That Sketch: Photorealistic Image Generation From Abstract Sketches
- CVPR 2023Private Image Generation With Dual-Purpose Auxiliary Classifier
- CVPR 2023Prototype-Based Embedding Network for Scene Graph Generation
- CVPR 2023QPGesture: Quantization-Based and Phase-Guided Motion Matching for Natural Speech-Driven Gesture Generation
- CVPR 2023Randomized Adversarial Training via Taylor Expansion
- CVPR 2023Re-GAN: Data-Efficient GANs Training via Architectural Reconfiguration
- CVPR 2023ReCo: Region-Controlled Text-to-Image Generation
- CVPR 2023Representing Volumetric Videos As Dynamic MLP Maps
- CVPR 2023RIATIG: Reliable and Imperceptible Adversarial Text-to-Image Generation With Natural Prompts
- CVPR 2023Score Jacobian Chaining: Lifting Pretrained 2D Diffusion Models for 3D Generation
- CVPR 2023SeaThru-NeRF: Neural Radiance Fields in Scattering Media
- CVPR 2023Seeing a Rose in Five Thousand Ways
- CVPR 2023SIM: Semantic-Aware Instance Mask Generation for Box-Supervised Instance Segmentation
- CVPR 2023Solving Relaxations of MAP-MRF Problems: Combinatorial In-Face Frank-Wolfe Directions
- CVPR 2023SpaText: Spatio-Textual Representation for Controllable Image Generation
- CVPR 2023TAPS3D: Text-Guided 3D Textured Shape Generation From Pseudo Supervision
- CVPR 2023Topology-Guided Multi-Class Cell Context Generation for Digital Pathology
- CVPR 2023Towards Accurate Image Coding: Improved Autoregressive Image Generation With Dynamic Vector Quantization
- CVPR 2023Towards Unified Scene Text Spotting Based on Sequence Generation
- CVPR 2023UDE: A Unified Driving Engine for Human Motion Generation
- CVPR 2023Unbiased Scene Graph Generation in Videos
- CVPR 2023UniDexGrasp: Universal Robotic Dexterous Grasping via Learning Diverse Proposal Generation and Goal-Conditioned Policy
- CVPR 2023Unifying Layout Generation With a Decoupled Diffusion Model
- CVPR 2023VDN-NeRF: Resolving Shape-Radiance Ambiguity via View-Dependence Normalization
- CVPR 2023Where Is My Spot? Few-Shot Image Generation via Latent Subspace Optimization
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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.