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 2024Restoration by Generation with Constrained Priors
- CVPR 2024Rethinking Prior Information Generation with CLIP for Few-Shot Segmentation
- CVPR 2024Revisiting Non-Autoregressive Transformers for Efficient Image Synthesis
- CVPR 2024Sat2Scene: 3D Urban Scene Generation from Satellite Images with Diffusion
- CVPR 2024SCoFT: Self-Contrastive Fine-Tuning for Equitable Image Generation
- CVPR 2024Self-Training Large Language Models for Improved Visual Program Synthesis With Visual Reinforcement
- CVPR 2024SemCity: Semantic Scene Generation with Triplane Diffusion
- CVPR 2024Shadow Generation for Composite Image Using Diffusion Model
- CVPR 2024Sherpa3D: Boosting High-Fidelity Text-to-3D Generation via Coarse 3D Prior
- CVPR 2024Single Mesh Diffusion Models with Field Latents for Texture Generation
- CVPR 2024Single-View Scene Point Cloud Human Grasp Generation
- CVPR 2024Smooth Diffusion: Crafting Smooth Latent Spaces in Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024Spatio-Temporal Turbulence Mitigation: A Translational Perspective
- CVPR 2024SpikeNeRF: Learning Neural Radiance Fields from Continuous Spike Stream
- CVPR 2024SSR-Encoder: Encoding Selective Subject Representation for Subject-Driven Generation
- CVPR 2024Stratified Avatar Generation from Sparse Observations
- CVPR 2024Style Aligned Image Generation via Shared Attention
- CVPR 2024StyleCineGAN: Landscape Cinemagraph Generation using a Pre-trained StyleGAN
- CVPR 2024SuperSVG: Superpixel-based Scalable Vector Graphics Synthesis
- CVPR 2024Tailored Visions: Enhancing Text-to-Image Generation with Personalized Prompt Rewriting
- CVPR 2024Taming Mode Collapse in Score Distillation for Text-to-3D Generation
- CVPR 2024Taming the Tail in Class-Conditional GANs: Knowledge Sharing via Unconditional Training at Lower Resolutions
- CVPR 2024Text-Guided 3D Face Synthesis - From Generation to Editing
- CVPR 2024Text-to-3D Generation with Bidirectional Diffusion using both 2D and 3D priors
- CVPR 2024Text2QR: Harmonizing Aesthetic Customization and Scanning Robustness for Text-Guided QR Code Generation
- CVPR 2024TIGER: Time-Varying Denoising Model for 3D Point Cloud Generation with Diffusion Process
- CVPR 2024Towards a Simultaneous and Granular Identity-Expression Control in Personalized Face Generation
- CVPR 2024Towards Automated Movie Trailer Generation
- CVPR 2024Towards Realistic Scene Generation with LiDAR Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024Towards Variable and Coordinated Holistic Co-Speech Motion Generation
- CVPR 2024Training-Free Pretrained Model Merging
- CVPR 2024UniGS: Unified Representation for Image Generation and Segmentation
- CVPR 2024UV-IDM: Identity-Conditioned Latent Diffusion Model for Face UV-Texture Generation
- CVPR 2024VecFusion: Vector Font Generation with Diffusion
- CVPR 2024Vector Graphics Generation via Mutually Impulsed Dual-domain Diffusion
- CVPR 2024Visual Fact Checker: Enabling High-Fidelity Detailed Caption Generation
- CVPR 2024WANDR: Intention-guided Human Motion Generation
- CVPR 2024Weakly-Supervised Emotion Transition Learning for Diverse 3D Co-speech Gesture Generation
- CVPR 2024When StyleGAN Meets Stable Diffusion: a W+ Adapter for Personalized Image Generation
- ICLR 2024$\mathcal{B}$-Coder: Value-Based Deep Reinforcement Learning for Program Synthesis
- ICLR 2024A Branching Decoder for Set Generation
- ICLR 2024A Real-World WebAgent with Planning, Long Context Understanding, and Program Synthesis
- ICLR 2024A Simple and Scalable Representation for Graph Generation
- ICLR 2024Accelerating Data Generation for Neural Operators via Krylov Subspace Recycling
- ICLR 2024An interpretable error correction method for enhancing code-to-code translation
- ICLR 2024Are Bert Family Good Instruction Followers? A Study on Their Potential And Limitations
- ICLR 2024At Which Training Stage Does Code Data Help LLMs Reasoning?
- ICLR 2024AutomaTikZ: Text-Guided Synthesis of Scientific Vector Graphics with TikZ
- ICLR 2024Batched Low-Rank Adaptation of Foundation Models
- ICLR 2024Beyond Accuracy: Evaluating Self-Consistency of Code Large Language Models with IdentityChain
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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.