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

174 papers, page 4 of 4

151. ICML 2026Stable Asynchrony: Variance-Controlled Off-Policy RL for LLMs
152. ICML 2026STABLE: Simulation-Ready Tabletop Layout Generation via a Semantics–Physics Dual System
153. ICML 2026SWE-Compass: Towards Unified Evaluation of Agentic Coding Abilities for Large Language Models
154. ICML 2026SWE-Perf: Can Language Models Optimize Code Performance on Real-World Repositories?
155. ICML 2026Synthesizable Molecular Generation via Soft-constrained GFlowNets with Rich Chemical Priors
156. ICML 2026Synthesizing Multimodal Geometry Datasets from Scratch and Enabling Visual Alignment via Plotting Code
157. ICML 2026TestExplora: Benchmarking LLMs for Proactive Bug Discovery via Repository-Level Test Generation
158. ICML 2026The Hidden Cost of Structured Generation in LLMs: Draft-Conditioned Constrained Decoding
159. ICML 2026The Invisible Lottery: How Subtle Cues Steer Algorithm Choice in LLM Code Generation
160. ICML 2026The Latent Color Subspace: Emergent Order in High-Dimensional Chaos
161. ICML 2026Threat2Traffic: Multi-Agent Environment Synthesis for Malware Traffic Generation from Threat Intelligence
162. ICML 2026Towards Functional Correctness of Large Code Models with Selective Generation
163. ICML 2026Towards High-Fidelity CAD Generation via LLM-Driven Program Generation and Text-Based B-Rep Primitive Grounding
164. ICML 2026TritonGym: A Benchmark for Agentic LLM Workflows in Triton GPU Code Generation
165. ICML 2026TWLA: Achieving Ternary Weights and Low-Bit Activations for LLMs via Post-Training Quantization
166. ICML 2026UniCode: Augmenting Evaluation for Code Reasoning
167. ICML 2026UniRTL: Unifying Code and Graph for Robust RTL Representation Learning
168. ICML 2026Variational Bayesian Flow Network for Graph Generation
169. ICML 2026VCG-Bench: Towards A Unified Visual-Centric Benchmark for Structured Generation and Editing
170. ICML 2026VeriSimpl: Robust Optimization Modeling from Natural Language using Simplification-based Verification
171. ICML 2026WeightCLIP: Aligning Datasets and Models for Weight Space Learning
172. ICML 2026Weights to Code: Extracting Interpretable Algorithms from the Discrete Transformer
173. ICML 2026Winformer: Transcending Pairwise Similarity for Time-series Generation
174. ICML 2026With Argus Eyes: Assessing Retrieval Gaps via Uncertainty Scoring to Detect and Remedy Retrieval Blind Spots

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.