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
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- CVPR 2026Match-and-Fuse Consistent Generation from Unstructured Image Sets
- CVPR 2026MatLat Material Latent Space for PBR Texture Generation
- CVPR 2026MeshFlow Efficient Artistic Mesh Generation via MeshVAE and Flow-based Diffusion
- CVPR 2026MeshMosaic Scaling Artist Mesh Generation via Local-to-Global Assembly
- CVPR 2026MeshRipple Structured Autoregressive Generation of Artist-Meshes
- CVPR 2026MeshWeaver Sparse-Voxel-Guided Surface Weaving for Autoregressive Mesh Generation
- CVPR 2026MICON-Bench Benchmarking and Enhancing Multi-Image Context Image Generation in Unified
- CVPR 2026Mirai Autoregressive Visual Generation Needs Foresight
- CVPR 2026Mitigating Instance Entanglement in Instance-Dependent Partial Label Learning
- CVPR 2026MLLM-HWSI A Multimodal Large Language Model for Hierarchical Whole Slide
- CVPR 2026MM-ACT Learn from Multimodal Parallel Generation to Act
- CVPR 2026MM-ReCoder Advancing Chart-to-Code Generation with Reinforcement Learning and Self-Correction
- CVPR 2026MMFace-DiT A Dual-Stream Diffusion Transformer for High-Fidelity Multimodal Face Generation
- CVPR 2026mmWaveFlow Unified Enhancement and Generation of mmWave Human Point Clouds
- CVPR 2026MoCoDiff A Controllable Autoregressive Diffusion Model for Expressive Motion Generation
- CVPR 2026MoLingo Motion-Language Alignment for Text-to-Human Motion Generation
- CVPR 2026MotionMaster Generalizable Text-Driven Motion Generation and Editing
- CVPR 2026Multi-Scale Local Speculative Decoding for Image Generation
- CVPR 2026Multi-view Consistent 3D Gaussian Head Avatars without Multi-view Generation
- CVPR 2026NAMI Efficient Image Generation via Bridged Progressive Rectified Flow Transformers
- CVPR 2026Native and Compact Structured Latents for 3D Generation
- CVPR 2026Nestwork Conditional 3D Furnished House Layout Generation through Latent Heterogeneous
- CVPR 2026Next-Scale Autoregressive Models for Text-to-Motion Generation
- CVPR 2026NI-Tex Non-isometric Image-based Garment Texture Generation
- CVPR 2026Not All Birds Look The Same Identity-Preserving Generation For Birds
- CVPR 2026OmniDocLayout Towards Diverse Document Layout Generation via Coarse-to-Fine LLM Learning
- CVPR 2026OmniGen2 Towards Instruction-Aligned Multimodal Generation
- CVPR 2026One-to-More High-Fidelity Training-Free Anomaly Generation with Attention Control
- CVPR 2026Open-world Hand-Object Interaction Video Generation Based on Structure and Contact-aware
- CVPR 2026OpenDance Multimodal Controllable 3D Dance Generation with Large-scale Internet Data
- CVPR 2026OpenT2M No-frill Motion Generation with Open-source Large-scale High-quality Data
- CVPR 2026OPRO Orthogonal Panel-Relative Operators for Panel-Aware In-Context Image Generation
- CVPR 2026Order Matters 3D Shape Generation from Sequential VR Sketches
- CVPR 2026ORV 4D Occupancy-centric Robot Video Generation
- CVPR 2026PaCo-RL Advancing Reinforcement Learning for Consistent Image Generation with Pairwise
- CVPR 2026PAMotion Physics-Aware Motion Generation for Full-Body Interaction with Multiple Objects
- CVPR 2026Pano3DComposer Feed-Forward Compositional 3D Scene Generation from Single Panoramic Image
- CVPR 2026Parallel Jacobi Decoding for Fast Autoregressive Image Generation
- CVPR 2026PartDiffuser Part-wise 3D Mesh Generation via Discrete Diffusion
- CVPR 2026PersonaVLM Long-Term Personalized Multimodal LLMs
- CVPR 2026PG-VTON Single-Pass Training-Free Virtual Try-On via Patch-Guided Reference Alignment
- CVPR 2026Photo3D Advancing Photorealistic 3D Generation through Structure-Aligned Detail Enhancement
- CVPR 2026Phrase-grounded APO for Improving Chest X-ray Report Generation
- CVPR 2026PhysGen Physically Grounded 3D Shape Generation for Industrial Design
- CVPR 2026PixelDiT Pixel Diffusion Transformers for Image Generation
- CVPR 2026Pointer-CAD Unifying B-Rep and Command Sequences via Pointer-based Edges
- CVPR 2026PoseMaster A Unified 3D Native Framework for Stylized Pose Generation
- CVPR 2026PrITTI Primitive-based Generation of Controllable and Editable 3D Semantic Urban
- CVPR 2026Progressive Neural Architecture Generation
- CVPR 2026Property-Informed Diffusion-Based Text-to-Microstructure 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.