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

230 papers, page 3 of 5

101. NeurIPS 2025Inference-Time Scaling for Flow Models via Stochastic Generation and Rollover Budget Forcing
102. NeurIPS 2025Influence Guided Context Selection for Effective Retrieval-Augmented Generation
103. NeurIPS 2025InstanceAssemble: Layout-Aware Image Generation via Instance Assembling Attention
104. NeurIPS 2025InstructFlow: Adaptive Symbolic Constraint-Guided Code Generation for Long-Horizon Planning
105. NeurIPS 2025IntrinsiX: High-Quality PBR Generation using Image Priors
106. NeurIPS 2025Joint Relational Database Generation via Graph-Conditional Diffusion Models
107. NeurIPS 2025Keep It on a Leash: Controllable Pseudo-label Generation Towards Realistic Long-Tailed Semi-Supervised Learning
108. NeurIPS 2025KVLink: Accelerating Large Language Models via Efficient KV Cache Reuse
109. NeurIPS 2025KVzip: Query-Agnostic KV Cache Compression with Context Reconstruction
110. NeurIPS 2025Large Language Diffusion Models
111. NeurIPS 2025Lessons Learned: A Multi-Agent Framework for Code LLMs to Learn and Improve
112. NeurIPS 2025Let's Revise Step-by-Step: A Unified Local Search Framework for Code Generation with LLMs
113. NeurIPS 2025LeVo: High-Quality Song Generation with Multi-Preference Alignment
114. NeurIPS 2025Limited Preference Data? Learning Better Reward Model with Latent Space Synthesis
115. NeurIPS 2025LLM Meets Diffusion: A Hybrid Framework for Crystal Material Generation
116. NeurIPS 2025LMFusion: Adapting Pretrained Language Models for Multimodal Generation
117. NeurIPS 2025Machine Unlearning in 3D Generation: A Perspective-Coherent Acceleration Framework
118. NeurIPS 2025Magical: Medical Lay Language Generation via Semantic Invariance and Layperson-tailored Adaptation
119. NeurIPS 2025MaintainCoder: Maintainable Code Generation Under Dynamic Requirements
120. NeurIPS 2025Matching Markets Meet LLMs: Algorithmic Reasoning with Ranked Preferences
121. NeurIPS 2025Matryoshka Pilot: Learning to Drive Black-Box LLMs with LLMs
122. NeurIPS 2025MEGADance: Mixture-of-Experts Architecture for Genre-Aware 3D Dance Generation
123. NeurIPS 2025MeshCoder: LLM-Powered Structured Mesh Code Generation from Point Clouds
124. NeurIPS 2025MetaDefense: Defending Fine-tuning based Jailbreak Attack Before and During Generation
125. NeurIPS 2025Metis: A Foundation Speech Generation Model with Masked Generative Pre-training
126. NeurIPS 2025MigGPT: Harnessing Large Language Models for Automated Migration of Out-of-Tree Linux Kernel Patches Across Versions
127. NeurIPS 2025Mind the Quote: Enabling Quotation-Aware Dialogue in LLMs via Plug-and-Play Modules
128. NeurIPS 2025MIND: Material Interface Generation from UDFs for Non-Manifold Surface Reconstruction
129. NeurIPS 2025Mixture of Inputs: Text Generation Beyond Discrete Token Sampling
130. NeurIPS 2025More Than Generation: Unifying Generation and Depth Estimation via Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
131. NeurIPS 2025More Than Just Functional: LLM-as-a-Critique for Efficient Code Generation
132. NeurIPS 2025Multiverse: Your Language Models Secretly Decide How to Parallelize and Merge Generation
133. NeurIPS 2025Neither Valid nor Reliable? Investigating the Use of LLMs as Judges
134. NeurIPS 2025NeuroGenPoisoning: Neuron-Guided Attacks on Retrieval-Augmented Generation of LLM via Genetic Optimization of External Knowledge
135. NeurIPS 2025NeuroPath: Neurobiology-Inspired Path Tracking and Reflection for Semantically Coherent Retrieval
136. NeurIPS 2025NFIG: Multi-Scale Autoregressive Image Generation via Frequency Ordering
137. NeurIPS 2025OmniGen-AR: AutoRegressive Any-to-Image Generation
138. NeurIPS 2025OmniResponse: Online Multimodal Conversational Response Generation in Dyadic Interactions
139. NeurIPS 2025OmniSVG: A Unified Scalable Vector Graphics Generation Model
140. NeurIPS 2025OmniTry: Virtual Try-On Anything without Masks
141. NeurIPS 2025On the Entropy Calibration of Language Models
142. NeurIPS 2025On Union-Closedness of Language Generation
143. NeurIPS 2025OptiScene: LLM-driven Indoor Scene Layout Generation via Scaled Human-aligned Data Synthesis and Multi-Stage Preference Optimization
144. NeurIPS 2025ParamMute: Suppressing Knowledge-Critical FFNs for Faithful Retrieval-Augmented Generation
145. NeurIPS 2025PartCrafter: Structured 3D Mesh Generation via Compositional Latent Diffusion Transformers
146. NeurIPS 2025PartNeXt: A Next-Generation Dataset for Fine-Grained and Hierarchical 3D Part Understanding
147. NeurIPS 2025Personalized Visual Content Generation in Conversational Systems
148. NeurIPS 2025PF∆: A Benchmark Dataset for Power Flow under Load, Generation, and Topology Variations
149. NeurIPS 2025PhysX-3D: Physical-Grounded 3D Asset Generation
150. NeurIPS 2025PoE-World: Compositional World Modeling with Products of Programmatic Experts

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.