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
446 papers, page 2 of 9
- CVPR 2024Generating Non-Stationary Textures using Self-Rectification
- CVPR 2024GLACE: Global Local Accelerated Coordinate Encoding
- CVPR 2024High-fidelity Person-centric Subject-to-Image Synthesis
- CVPR 2024HiKER-SGG: Hierarchical Knowledge Enhanced Robust Scene Graph Generation
- CVPR 2024Holodeck: Language Guided Generation of 3D Embodied AI Environments
- CVPR 2024HumanNorm: Learning Normal Diffusion Model for High-quality and Realistic 3D Human Generation
- CVPR 2024HumanRef: Single Image to 3D Human Generation via Reference-Guided Diffusion
- CVPR 2024HyperSDFusion: Bridging Hierarchical Structures in Language and Geometry for Enhanced 3D Text2Shape Generation
- CVPR 2024Hyperspherical Classification with Dynamic Label-to-Prototype Assignment
- CVPR 2024Infinigen Indoors: Photorealistic Indoor Scenes using Procedural Generation
- CVPR 2024Instance-level Expert Knowledge and Aggregate Discriminative Attention for Radiology Report Generation
- CVPR 2024InstanceDiffusion: Instance-level Control for Image Generation
- CVPR 2024InstantBooth: Personalized Text-to-Image Generation without Test-Time Finetuning
- CVPR 2024Interactive3D: Create What You Want by Interactive 3D Generation
- CVPR 2024InterHandGen: Two-Hand Interaction Generation via Cascaded Reverse Diffusion
- CVPR 2024JDEC: JPEG Decoding via Enhanced Continuous Cosine Coefficients
- CVPR 2024Joint2Human: High-Quality 3D Human Generation via Compact Spherical Embedding of 3D Joints
- CVPR 2024Laplacian-guided Entropy Model in Neural Codec with Blur-dissipated Synthesis
- CVPR 2024Learned Representation-Guided Diffusion Models for Large-Image Generation
- CVPR 2024Learning Disentangled Identifiers for Action-Customized Text-to-Image Generation
- CVPR 2024Learning Dynamic Tetrahedra for High-Quality Talking Head Synthesis
- CVPR 2024LeGO: Leveraging a Surface Deformation Network for Animatable Stylized Face Generation with One Example
- CVPR 2024Let's Think Outside the Box: Exploring Leap-of-Thought in Large Language Models with Creative Humor Generation
- CVPR 2024Leveraging Predicate and Triplet Learning for Scene Graph Generation
- CVPR 2024LLMs are Good Action Recognizers
- CVPR 2024LLMs are Good Sign Language Translators
- CVPR 2024Lodge: A Coarse to Fine Diffusion Network for Long Dance Generation Guided by the Characteristic Dance Primitives
- CVPR 2024MAS: Multi-view Ancestral Sampling for 3D Motion Generation Using 2D Diffusion
- CVPR 2024MatFuse: Controllable Material Generation with Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024MeshGPT: Generating Triangle Meshes with Decoder-Only Transformers
- CVPR 2024MIGC: Multi-Instance Generation Controller for Text-to-Image Synthesis
- CVPR 2024ModaVerse: Efficiently Transforming Modalities with LLMs
- CVPR 2024Move as You Say Interact as You Can: Language-guided Human Motion Generation with Scene Affordance
- CVPR 2024MPOD123: One Image to 3D Content Generation Using Mask-enhanced Progressive Outline-to-Detail Optimization
- CVPR 2024NAYER: Noisy Layer Data Generation for Efficient and Effective Data-free Knowledge Distillation
- CVPR 2024OED: Towards One-stage End-to-End Dynamic Scene Graph Generation
- CVPR 2024OmniMotionGPT: Animal Motion Generation with Limited Data
- CVPR 2024On the Scalability of Diffusion-based Text-to-Image Generation
- CVPR 2024One-2-3-45++: Fast Single Image to 3D Objects with Consistent Multi-View Generation and 3D Diffusion
- CVPR 2024PEEKABOO: Interactive Video Generation via Masked-Diffusion
- CVPR 2024POPDG: Popular 3D Dance Generation with PopDanceSet
- CVPR 2024Programmable Motion Generation for Open-Set Motion Control Tasks
- CVPR 2024Rapid 3D Model Generation with Intuitive 3D Input
- CVPR 2024RepAn: Enhanced Annealing through Re-parameterization
- CVPR 2024Residual Denoising Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024Restoration by Generation with Constrained Priors
- CVPR 2024Rethinking Prior Information Generation with CLIP for Few-Shot Segmentation
- CVPR 2024Revisiting Non-Autoregressive Transformers for Efficient Image Synthesis
- CVPR 2024Sat2Scene: 3D Urban Scene Generation from Satellite Images with Diffusion
- CVPR 2024SCoFT: Self-Contrastive Fine-Tuning for Equitable Image Generation
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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.