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

2,161 papers, page 27 of 44

1301. NeurIPS 2025Blockwise Flow Matching: Improving Flow Matching Models For Efficient High-Quality Generation
1302. NeurIPS 2025BoltzNCE: Learning likelihoods for Boltzmann Generation with Stochastic Interpolants and Noise Contrastive Estimation
1303. NeurIPS 2025Boosting Knowledge Utilization in Multimodal Large Language Models via Adaptive Logits Fusion and Attention Reallocation
1304. NeurIPS 2025Brain network science modelling of sparse neural networks enables Transformers and LLMs to perform as fully connected
1305. NeurIPS 2025Bridging Sign and Spoken Languages: Pseudo Gloss Generation for Sign Language Translation
1306. NeurIPS 2025Can LLMs Correct Themselves? A Benchmark of Self-Correction in LLMs
1307. NeurIPS 2025Classical Planning with LLM-Generated Heuristics: Challenging the State of the Art with Python Code
1308. NeurIPS 2025CLEAR: Conv-Like Linearization Revs Pre-Trained Diffusion Transformers Up
1309. NeurIPS 2025CLEVER: A Curated Benchmark for Formally Verified Code Generation
1310. NeurIPS 2025CodeAssistBench (CAB): Dataset & Benchmarking for Multi-turn Chat-Based Code Assistance
1311. NeurIPS 2025CodeGEMM: A Codebook-Centric Approach to Efficient GEMM in Quantized LLMs
1312. NeurIPS 2025Color Conditional Generation with Sliced Wasserstein Guidance
1313. NeurIPS 2025COME: Adding Scene-Centric Forecasting Control to Occupancy World Model
1314. NeurIPS 2025Compositional Discrete Latent Code for High Fidelity, Productive Diffusion Models
1315. NeurIPS 2025Consistent Story Generation: Unlocking the Potential of Zigzag Sampling
1316. NeurIPS 2025Constrained Discrete Diffusion
1317. NeurIPS 2025Contact Map Transfer with Conditional Diffusion Model for Generalizable Dexterous Grasp Generation
1318. NeurIPS 2025Contextual Thompson Sampling via Generation of Missing Data
1319. NeurIPS 2025Cooperative Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Question Answering: Mutual Information Exchange and Ranking by Contrasting Layers
1320. NeurIPS 2025CoRe: Benchmarking LLMs’ Code Reasoning Capabilities through Static Analysis Tasks
1321. NeurIPS 2025CORE: Reducing UI Exposure in Mobile Agents via Collaboration Between Cloud and Local LLMs
1322. NeurIPS 2025CoT-lized Diffusion: Let's Reinforce T2I Generation Step-by-step
1323. NeurIPS 2025CSGO: Content-Style Composition in Text-to-Image Generation
1324. NeurIPS 2025Cue3D: Quantifying the Role of Image Cues in Single-Image 3D Generation
1325. NeurIPS 2025CURE: Co-Evolving Coders and Unit Testers via Reinforcement Learning
1326. NeurIPS 2025CymbaDiff: Structured Spatial Diffusion for Sketch-based 3D Semantic Urban Scene Generation
1327. NeurIPS 2025DeltaFormer: Unlock the state space of Transformer
1328. NeurIPS 2025Diffusion Beats Autoregressive in Data-Constrained Settings
1329. NeurIPS 2025DINGO: Constrained Inference for Diffusion LLMs
1330. NeurIPS 2025Direct Numerical Layout Generation for 3D Indoor Scene Synthesis via Spatial Reasoning
1331. NeurIPS 2025Direct3D-S2: Gigascale 3D Generation Made Easy with Spatial Sparse Attention
1332. NeurIPS 2025Discovering Latent Graphs with GFlowNets for Diverse Conditional Image Generation
1333. NeurIPS 2025Distilled Decoding 2: One-step Sampling of Image Auto-regressive Models with Conditional Score Distillation
1334. NeurIPS 2025Distilling LLM Agent into Small Models with Retrieval and Code Tools
1335. NeurIPS 2025DMol: A Highly Efficient and Chemical Motif-Preserving Molecule Generation Platform
1336. NeurIPS 2025Document Summarization with Conformal Importance Guarantees
1337. NeurIPS 2025DoDo-Code: an Efficient Levenshtein Distance Embedding-based Code for 4-ary IDS Channel
1338. NeurIPS 2025DyFlow: Dynamic Workflow Framework for Agentic Reasoning
1339. NeurIPS 2025EffiBench-X: A Multi-Language Benchmark for Measuring Efficiency of LLM-Generated Code
1340. NeurIPS 2025Efficient Pre-Training of LLMs via Topology-Aware Communication Alignment on More Than 9600 GPUs
1341. NeurIPS 2025Efficient semantic uncertainty quantification in language models via diversity-steered sampling
1342. NeurIPS 2025EnzyControl: Adding Functional and Substrate-Specific Control for Enzyme Backbone Generation
1343. NeurIPS 2025ESCA: Contextualizing Embodied Agents via Scene-Graph Generation
1344. NeurIPS 2025EVAAA: A Virtual Environment Platform for Essential Variables in Autonomous and Adaptive Agents
1345. NeurIPS 2025EVODiff: Entropy-aware Variance Optimized Diffusion Inference
1346. NeurIPS 2025Execution Guided Line-by-Line Code Generation
1347. NeurIPS 2025FACT: Mitigating Inconsistent Hallucinations in LLMs via Fact-Driven Alternating Code-Text Training
1348. NeurIPS 2025Failure by Interference: Language Models Make Balanced Parentheses Errors When Faulty Mechanisms Overshadow Sound Ones
1349. NeurIPS 2025FAST: Foreground‑aware Diffusion with Accelerated Sampling Trajectory for Segmentation‑oriented Anomaly Synthesis
1350. NeurIPS 2025Feedback Guidance of Diffusion Models

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.