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

446 papers, page 4 of 9

151. ICLR 2024DiffusionNAG: Predictor-guided Neural Architecture Generation with Diffusion Models
152. ICLR 2024DoLa: Decoding by Contrasting Layers Improves Factuality in Large Language Models
153. ICLR 2024Don't Play Favorites: Minority Guidance for Diffusion Models
154. ICLR 2024DreamTime: An Improved Optimization Strategy for Diffusion-Guided 3D Generation
155. ICLR 2024Enhancing High-Resolution 3D Generation through Pixel-wise Gradient Clipping
156. ICLR 2024Evoke: Evoking Critical Thinking Abilities in LLMs via Reviewer-Author Prompt Editing
157. ICLR 2024ExeDec: Execution Decomposition for Compositional Generalization in Neural Program Synthesis
158. ICLR 2024Fake It Till Make It: Federated Learning with Consensus-Oriented Generation
159. ICLR 2024Fine-tuning Multimodal LLMs to Follow Zero-shot Demonstrative Instructions
160. ICLR 2024GenSim: Generating Robotic Simulation Tasks via Large Language Models
161. ICLR 2024Graph Generation with $K^2$-trees
162. ICLR 2024Guess & Sketch: Language Model Guided Transpilation
163. ICLR 2024Is Self-Repair a Silver Bullet for Code Generation?
164. ICLR 2024L2MAC: Large Language Model Automatic Computer for Extensive Code Generation
165. ICLR 2024LayoutNUWA: Revealing the Hidden Layout Expertise of Large Language Models
166. ICLR 2024Learning Performance-Improving Code Edits
167. ICLR 2024Lemur: Harmonizing Natural Language and Code for Language Agents
168. ICLR 2024LILO: Learning Interpretable Libraries by Compressing and Documenting Code
169. ICLR 2024LLM Augmented LLMs: Expanding Capabilities through Composition
170. ICLR 2024LLM Blueprint: Enabling Text-to-Image Generation with Complex and Detailed Prompts
171. ICLR 2024LLM-Assisted Code Cleaning For Training Accurate Code Generators
172. ICLR 2024MathCoder: Seamless Code Integration in LLMs for Enhanced Mathematical Reasoning
173. ICLR 2024MBR and QE Finetuning: Training-time Distillation of the Best and Most Expensive Decoding Methods
174. ICLR 2024Mixed-Type Tabular Data Synthesis with Score-based Diffusion in Latent Space
175. ICLR 2024MixSATGEN: Learning Graph Mixing for SAT Instance Generation
176. ICLR 2024Model Tells You What to Discard: Adaptive KV Cache Compression for LLMs
177. ICLR 2024MVDream: Multi-view Diffusion for 3D Generation
178. ICLR 2024NOLA: Compressing LoRA using Linear Combination of Random Basis
179. ICLR 2024OctoPack: Instruction Tuning Code Large Language Models
180. ICLR 2024PanoDiffusion: 360-degree Panorama Outpainting via Diffusion
181. ICLR 2024Personalize Segment Anything Model with One Shot
182. ICLR 2024PnP Inversion: Boosting Diffusion-based Editing with 3 Lines of Code
183. ICLR 2024Privacy-Preserving In-Context Learning with Differentially Private Few-Shot Generation
184. ICLR 2024Real3D-Portrait: One-shot Realistic 3D Talking Portrait Synthesis
185. ICLR 2024RepoBench: Benchmarking Repository-Level Code Auto-Completion Systems
186. ICLR 2024Self-RAG: Learning to Retrieve, Generate, and Critique through Self-Reflection
187. ICLR 2024Sin3DM: Learning a Diffusion Model from a Single 3D Textured Shape
188. ICLR 2024Skeleton-of-Thought: Prompting LLMs for Efficient Parallel Generation
189. ICLR 2024Solving Challenging Math Word Problems Using GPT-4 Code Interpreter with Code-based Self-Verification
190. ICLR 2024Spatially-Aware Transformers for Embodied Agents
191. ICLR 2024Symphony: Symmetry-Equivariant Point-Centered Spherical Harmonics for 3D Molecule Generation
192. ICLR 2024Teaching Large Language Models to Self-Debug
193. ICLR 2024Tell Your Model Where to Attend: Post-hoc Attention Steering for LLMs
194. ICLR 2024The Consensus Game: Language Model Generation via Equilibrium Search
195. ICLR 2024The Reversal Curse: LLMs trained on “A is B” fail to learn “B is A”
196. ICLR 2024Towards Aligned Layout Generation via Diffusion Model with Aesthetic Constraints
197. ICLR 2024Towards Codable Watermarking for Injecting Multi-Bits Information to LLMs
198. ICLR 2024TUVF: Learning Generalizable Texture UV Radiance Fields
199. ICLR 2024WizardCoder: Empowering Code Large Language Models with Evol-Instruct
200. ICLR 2024Zero Bubble (Almost) Pipeline Parallelism

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.