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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101. CVPR 2025Move-in-2D: 2D-Conditioned Human Motion Generation
102. CVPR 2025MV-DUSt3R+: Single-Stage Scene Reconstruction from Sparse Views In 2 Seconds
103. CVPR 2025MVGenMaster: Scaling Multi-View Generation from Any Image via 3D Priors Enhanced Diffusion Model
104. CVPR 2025Navigating the Unseen: Zero-shot Scene Graph Generation via Capsule-Based Equivariant Features
105. CVPR 2025NoiseCtrl: A Sampling-Algorithm-Agnostic Conditional Generation Method for Diffusion Models
106. CVPR 2025Not All Parameters Matter: Masking Diffusion Models for Enhancing Generation Ability
107. CVPR 2025One-Minute Video Generation with Test-Time Training
108. CVPR 2025Optimizing for the Shortest Path in Denoising Diffusion Model
109. CVPR 2025Ouroboros3D: Image-to-3D Generation via 3D-aware Recursive Diffusion
110. CVPR 2025PatchDPO: Patch-level DPO for Finetuning-free Personalized Image Generation
111. CVPR 2025PersonaHOI: Effortlessly Improving Face Personalization in Human-Object Interaction Generation
112. CVPR 2025Playing the Fool: Jailbreaking LLMs and Multimodal LLMs with Out-of-Distribution Strategy
113. CVPR 2025Plug-and-Play Interpretable Responsible Text-to-Image Generation via Dual-Space Multi-facet Concept Control
114. CVPR 2025PosterMaker: Towards High-Quality Product Poster Generation with Accurate Text Rendering
115. CVPR 2025PosterO: Structuring Layout Trees to Enable Language Models in Generalized Content-Aware Layout Generation
116. CVPR 2025PreciseCam: Precise Camera Control for Text-to-Image Generation
117. CVPR 2025Prior-free 3D Object Tracking
118. CVPR 2025Prompting Depth Anything for 4K Resolution Accurate Metric Depth Estimation
119. CVPR 2025RandAR: Decoder-only Autoregressive Visual Generation in Random Orders
120. CVPR 2025Rectified Diffusion Guidance for Conditional Generation
121. CVPR 2025Redefining <Creative> in Dictionary: Towards an Enhanced Semantic Understanding of Creative Generation
122. CVPR 2025ReNeg: Learning Negative Embedding with Reward Guidance
123. CVPR 2025Rethinking Training for De-biasing Text-to-Image Generation: Unlocking the Potential of Stable Diffusion
124. CVPR 2025S2D-LFE: Sparse-to-Dense Light Field Event Generation
125. CVPR 2025SALAD: Skeleton-aware Latent Diffusion for Text-driven Motion Generation and Editing
126. CVPR 2025SAR3D: Autoregressive 3D Object Generation and Understanding via Multi-scale 3D VQVAE
127. CVPR 2025Satellite to GroundScape - Large-scale Consistent Ground View Generation from Satellite Views
128. CVPR 2025Scalable Video-to-Dataset Generation for Cross-Platform Mobile Agents
129. CVPR 2025Scaling Mesh Generation via Compressive Tokenization
130. CVPR 2025ScaMo: Exploring the Scaling Law in Autoregressive Motion Generation Model
131. CVPR 2025Scene Map-based Prompt Tuning for Navigation Instruction Generation
132. CVPR 2025SceneFactor: Factored Latent 3D Diffusion for Controllable 3D Scene Generation
133. CVPR 2025SemGeoMo: Dynamic Contextual Human Motion Generation with Semantic and Geometric Guidance
134. CVPR 2025SerialGen: Personalized Image Generation by First Standardization Then Personalization
135. CVPR 2025SfM-Free 3D Gaussian Splatting via Hierarchical Training
136. CVPR 2025Shadow Generation Using Diffusion Model with Geometry Prior
137. CVPR 2025SKDream: Controllable Multi-view and 3D Generation with Arbitrary Skeletons
138. CVPR 2025SKE-Layout: Spatial Knowledge Enhanced Layout Generation with LLMs
139. CVPR 2025SketchAgent: Language-Driven Sequential Sketch Generation
140. CVPR 2025SoftVQ-VAE: Efficient 1-Dimensional Continuous Tokenizer
141. CVPR 2025Spherical Manifold Guided Diffusion Model for Panoramic Image Generation
142. CVPR 2025StageDesigner: Artistic Stage Generation for Scenography via Theater Scripts
143. CVPR 2025StarVector: Generating Scalable Vector Graphics Code from Images and Text
144. CVPR 2025StdGEN: Semantic-Decomposed 3D Character Generation from Single Images
145. CVPR 2025StoryGPT-V: Large Language Models as Consistent Story Visualizers
146. CVPR 2025Structured 3D Latents for Scalable and Versatile 3D Generation
147. CVPR 2025SynerGen-VL: Towards Synergistic Image Understanding and Generation with Vision Experts and Token Folding
148. CVPR 2025SynTab-LLaVA: Enhancing Multimodal Table Understanding with Decoupled Synthesis
149. CVPR 2025T2ISafety: Benchmark for Assessing Fairness, Toxicity, and Privacy in Image Generation
150. CVPR 2025TCFG: Tangential Damping Classifier-free Guidance

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.