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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51. ICML 2025NextCoder: Robust Adaptation of Code LMs to Diverse Code Edits
52. ICML 2025NICE Data Selection for Instruction Tuning in LLMs with Non-differentiable Evaluation Metric
53. ICML 2025On Exact Bit-level Reversible Transformers Without Changing Architecture
54. ICML 2025On the Query Complexity of Verifier-Assisted Language Generation
55. ICML 2025Optimizing Language Models for Inference Time Objectives using Reinforcement Learning
56. ICML 2025Overcoming Non-monotonicity in Transducer-based Streaming Generation
57. ICML 2025polybasic Speculative Decoding Through a Theoretical Perspective
58. ICML 2025Position: Future Research and Challenges Remain Towards AI for Software Engineering
59. ICML 2025Prior Knowledge Guided Neural Architecture Generation
60. ICML 2025ProSec: Fortifying Code LLMs with Proactive Security Alignment
61. ICML 2025QuEST: Stable Training of LLMs with 1-Bit Weights and Activations
62. ICML 2025Reasoning Through Execution: Unifying Process and Outcome Rewards for Code Generation
63. ICML 2025Reasoning-as-Logic-Units: Scaling Test-Time Reasoning in Large Language Models Through Logic Unit Alignment
64. ICML 2025Representative Language Generation
65. ICML 2025Revisiting Chain-of-Thought in Code Generation: Do Language Models Need to Learn Reasoning before Coding?
66. ICML 2025Scalable Non-Equivariant 3D Molecule Generation via Rotational Alignment
67. ICML 2025Selective Prompt Anchoring for Code Generation
68. ICML 2025Self-Improving Language Models for Evolutionary Program Synthesis: A Case Study on ARC-AGI
69. ICML 2025SongGen: A Single Stage Auto-regressive Transformer for Text-to-Song Generation
70. ICML 2025SpeCache: Speculative Key-Value Caching for Efficient Generation of LLMs
71. ICML 2025Strategic Planning: A Top-Down Approach to Option Generation
72. ICML 2025Synthesizing Software Engineering Data in a Test-Driven Manner
73. ICML 2025The Diffusion Duality
74. ICML 2025Thinking LLMs: General Instruction Following with Thought Generation
75. ICML 2025TokenSwift: Lossless Acceleration of Ultra Long Sequence Generation
76. ICML 2025Towards Practical Defect-Focused Automated Code Review
77. ICML 2025Tractable Transformers for Flexible Conditional Generation
78. ICML 2025TransPL: VQ-Code Transition Matrices for Pseudo-Labeling of Time Series Unsupervised Domain Adaptation
79. ICML 2025Understanding Complexity in VideoQA via Visual Program 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.