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