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
172 papers, page 2 of 4
- CVPR 2025EditAR: Unified Conditional Generation with Autoregressive Models
- CVPR 2025Empowering LLMs to Understand and Generate Complex Vector Graphics
- CVPR 2025EnergyMoGen: Compositional Human Motion Generation with Energy-Based Diffusion Model in Latent Space
- CVPR 2025Enhanced Contrastive Learning with Multi-view Longitudinal Data for Chest X-ray Report Generation
- CVPR 2025Enhancing Creative Generation on Stable Diffusion-based Models
- CVPR 2025Enhancing Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning via Training-Free Bi-Level Modality Calibration
- CVPR 2025ETAP: Event-based Tracking of Any Point
- CVPR 2025Eval3D: Interpretable and Fine-grained Evaluation for 3D Generation
- CVPR 2025EVPGS: Enhanced View Prior Guidance for Splatting-based Extrapolated View Synthesis
- CVPR 2025FactCheXcker: Mitigating Measurement Hallucinations in Chest X-ray Report Generation Models
- CVPR 2025FAM Diffusion: Frequency and Attention Modulation for High-Resolution Image Generation with Stable Diffusion
- CVPR 2025Fancy123: One Image to High-Quality 3D Mesh Generation via Plug-and-Play Deformation
- CVPR 2025Few-shot Implicit Function Generation via Equivariance
- CVPR 2025Finding Local Diffusion Schrodinger Bridge using Kolmogorov-Arnold Network
- CVPR 2025FinePhys: Fine-grained Human Action Generation by Explicitly Incorporating Physical Laws for Effective Skeletal Guidance
- CVPR 2025FlexGS: Train Once, Deploy Everywhere with Many-in-One Flexible 3D Gaussian Splatting
- CVPR 2025Focus-N-Fix: Region-Aware Fine-Tuning for Text-to-Image Generation
- CVPR 2025FoundHand: Large-Scale Domain-Specific Learning for Controllable Hand Image Generation
- CVPR 2025From Sparse Signal to Smooth Motion: Real-Time Motion Generation with Rolling Prediction Models
- CVPR 2025From Words to Structured Visuals: A Benchmark and Framework for Text-to-Diagram Generation and Editing
- CVPR 2025GEN3C: 3D-Informed World-Consistent Video Generation with Precise Camera Control
- CVPR 2025Generative Inbetweening through Frame-wise Conditions-Driven Video Generation
- CVPR 2025Global-Local Tree Search in VLMs for 3D Indoor Scene Generation
- CVPR 2025GoLF-NRT: Integrating Global Context and Local Geometry for Few-Shot View Synthesis
- CVPR 2025GPS as a Control Signal for Image Generation
- CVPR 2025Hierarchical Gaussian Mixture Model Splatting for Efficient and Part Controllable 3D Generation
- CVPR 2025HumanDreamer: Generating Controllable Human-Motion Videos via Decoupled Generation
- CVPR 2025HyperGLM: HyperGraph for Video Scene Graph Generation and Anticipation
- CVPR 2025HyperLoRA: Parameter-Efficient Adaptive Generation for Portrait Synthesis
- CVPR 2025IDProtector: An Adversarial Noise Encoder to Protect Against ID-Preserving Image Generation
- CVPR 2025Illumination Spectrum Estimation for Multispectral Images via Surface Reflectance Modeling and Spatial-Spectral Feature Generation
- CVPR 2025Image Generation Diversity Issues and How to Tame Them
- CVPR 2025Image is All You Need to Empower Large-scale Diffusion Models for In-Domain Generation
- CVPR 2025Improving Autoregressive Visual Generation with Cluster-Oriented Token Prediction
- CVPR 2025Improving Editability in Image Generation with Layer-wise Memory
- CVPR 2025Latent Space Super-Resolution for Higher-Resolution Image Generation with Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2025LaTexBlend: Scaling Multi-concept Customized Generation with Latent Textual Blending
- CVPR 2025Learning 4D Panoptic Scene Graph Generation from Rich 2D Visual Scene
- CVPR 2025Learning Flow Fields in Attention for Controllable Person Image Generation
- CVPR 2025Learning Hazing to Dehazing: Towards Realistic Haze Generation for Real-World Image Dehazing
- CVPR 2025Learning to Filter Outlier Edges in Global SfM
- CVPR 2025Learning to Normalize on the SPD Manifold under Bures-Wasserstein Geometry
- CVPR 2025Learning-enabled Polynomial Lyapunov Function Synthesis via High-Accuracy Counterexample-Guided Framework
- CVPR 2025LLM-driven Multimodal and Multi-Identity Listening Head Generation
- CVPR 2025Long Video Diffusion Generation with Segmented Cross-Attention and Content-Rich Video Data Curation
- CVPR 2025Masking meets Supervision: A Strong Learning Alliance
- CVPR 2025MC^2: Multi-concept Guidance for Customized Multi-concept Generation
- CVPR 2025MEAT: Multiview Diffusion Model for Human Generation on Megapixels with Mesh Attention
- CVPR 2025MergeVQ: A Unified Framework for Visual Generation and Representation with Disentangled Token Merging and Quantization
- CVPR 2025MG-MotionLLM: A Unified Framework for Motion Comprehension and Generation across Multiple Granularities
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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.