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
2,161 papers, page 31 of 44
- NeurIPS 2025ViewCraft3D: High-fidelity and View-Consistent 3D Vector Graphics Synthesis
- NeurIPS 2025Wan-Move: Motion-controllable Video Generation via Latent Trajectory Guidance
- NeurIPS 2025WarpGAN: Warping-Guided 3D GAN Inversion with Style-Based Novel View Inpainting
- NeurIPS 2025WebGen-Bench: Evaluating LLMs on Generating Interactive and Functional Websites from Scratch
- NeurIPS 2025Win Fast or Lose Slow: Balancing Speed and Accuracy in Latency-Sensitive Decisions of LLMs
- CVPR 20243D Feature Tracking via Event Camera
- CVPR 2024A Recipe for Scaling up Text-to-Video Generation with Text-free Videos
- CVPR 2024A Unified and Interpretable Emotion Representation and Expression Generation
- CVPR 2024Activity-Biometrics: Person Identification from Daily Activities
- CVPR 2024Adversarial Text to Continuous Image Generation
- CVPR 2024Arbitrary-Scale Image Generation and Upsampling using Latent Diffusion Model and Implicit Neural Decoder
- CVPR 2024AttriHuman-3D: Editable 3D Human Avatar Generation with Attribute Decomposition and Indexing
- CVPR 2024AvatarGPT: All-in-One Framework for Motion Understanding Planning Generation and Beyond
- CVPR 2024BerfScene: Bev-conditioned Equivariant Radiance Fields for Infinite 3D Scene Generation
- CVPR 2024BiPer: Binary Neural Networks using a Periodic Function
- CVPR 2024Boosting Adversarial Training via Fisher-Rao Norm-based Regularization
- CVPR 2024BrainWash: A Poisoning Attack to Forget in Continual Learning
- CVPR 2024CAD: Photorealistic 3D Generation via Adversarial Distillation
- CVPR 2024CAGE: Controllable Articulation GEneration
- CVPR 2024CapHuman: Capture Your Moments in Parallel Universes
- CVPR 2024Causal-CoG: A Causal-Effect Look at Context Generation for Boosting Multi-modal Language Models
- CVPR 2024ChatScene: Knowledge-Enabled Safety-Critical Scenario Generation for Autonomous Vehicles
- CVPR 2024Clockwork Diffusion: Efficient Generation With Model-Step Distillation
- CVPR 2024Coarse-to-Fine Latent Diffusion for Pose-Guided Person Image Synthesis
- CVPR 2024CoDe: An Explicit Content Decoupling Framework for Image Restoration
- CVPR 2024CoDi: Conditional Diffusion Distillation for Higher-Fidelity and Faster Image Generation
- CVPR 2024Condition-Aware Neural Network for Controlled Image Generation
- CVPR 2024Constrained Layout Generation with Factor Graphs
- CVPR 2024ControlRoom3D: Room Generation using Semantic Proxy Rooms
- CVPR 2024Correcting Diffusion Generation through Resampling
- CVPR 2024DanceCamera3D: 3D Camera Movement Synthesis with Music and Dance
- CVPR 2024DemoCaricature: Democratising Caricature Generation with a Rough Sketch
- CVPR 2024DemoFusion: Democratising High-Resolution Image Generation With No $$$
- CVPR 2024Desigen: A Pipeline for Controllable Design Template Generation
- CVPR 2024Design2Cloth: 3D Cloth Generation from 2D Masks
- CVPR 2024DiffInDScene: Diffusion-based High-Quality 3D Indoor Scene Generation
- CVPR 2024Diffusion Time-step Curriculum for One Image to 3D Generation
- CVPR 2024DisCo: Disentangled Control for Realistic Human Dance Generation
- CVPR 2024Discriminative Probing and Tuning for Text-to-Image Generation
- CVPR 2024DreamComposer: Controllable 3D Object Generation via Multi-View Conditions
- CVPR 2024DreamSalon: A Staged Diffusion Framework for Preserving Identity-Context in Editable Face Generation
- CVPR 2024DSGG: Dense Relation Transformer for an End-to-end Scene Graph Generation
- CVPR 2024EGTR: Extracting Graph from Transformer for Scene Graph Generation
- CVPR 2024ElasticDiffusion: Training-free Arbitrary Size Image Generation through Global-Local Content Separation
- CVPR 2024Emu Edit: Precise Image Editing via Recognition and Generation Tasks
- CVPR 2024FaceChain-SuDe: Building Derived Class to Inherit Category Attributes for One-shot Subject-Driven Generation
- CVPR 2024FlowDiffuser: Advancing Optical Flow Estimation with Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024FlowVQTalker: High-Quality Emotional Talking Face Generation through Normalizing Flow and Quantization
- CVPR 2024FreeCustom: Tuning-Free Customized Image Generation for Multi-Concept Composition
- CVPR 2024FreeU: Free Lunch in Diffusion U-Net
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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.