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

Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up

• 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

645 papers, page 4 of 13

151. CVPR 2025TexGarment: Consistent Garment UV Texture Generation via Efficient 3D Structure-Guided Diffusion Transformer
152. CVPR 2025TFCustom: Customized Image Generation with Time-Aware Frequency Feature Guidance
153. CVPR 2025Three-view Focal Length Recovery From Homographies
154. CVPR 2025TIMotion: Temporal and Interactive Framework for Efficient Human-Human Motion Generation
155. CVPR 2025TKG-DM: Training-free Chroma Key Content Generation Diffusion Model
156. CVPR 2025TokenFlow: Unified Image Tokenizer for Multimodal Understanding and Generation
157. CVPR 2025TopoCellGen: Generating Histopathology Cell Topology with a Diffusion Model
158. CVPR 2025Tora: Trajectory-oriented Diffusion Transformer for Video Generation
159. CVPR 2025Towards Transformer-Based Aligned Generation with Self-Coherence Guidance
160. CVPR 2025Towards Unbiased and Robust Spatio-Temporal Scene Graph Generation and Anticipation
161. CVPR 2025Towards Understanding and Quantifying Uncertainty for Text-to-Image Generation
162. CVPR 2025TreeMeshGPT: Artistic Mesh Generation with Autoregressive Tree Sequencing
163. CVPR 2025Type-R: Automatically Retouching Typos for Text-to-Image Generation
164. CVPR 2025UniPose: A Unified Multimodal Framework for Human Pose Comprehension, Generation and Editing
165. CVPR 2025UniScene: Unified Occupancy-centric Driving Scene Generation
166. CVPR 2025Universal Scene Graph Generation
167. CVPR 2025Unseen Visual Anomaly Generation
168. CVPR 2025VIRES: Video Instance Repainting via Sketch and Text Guided Generation
169. CVPR 2025Volumetrically Consistent 3D Gaussian Rasterization
170. CVPR 2025WISNet: Pseudo Label Generation on Unbalanced and Patch Annotated Waste Images
171. CVPR 2025WonderWorld: Interactive 3D Scene Generation from a Single Image
172. CVPR 2025ZoomLDM: Latent Diffusion Model for Multi-scale Image Generation
173. ICLR 20253DIS: Depth-Driven Decoupled Image Synthesis for Universal Multi-Instance Generation
174. ICLR 2025A Simple Approach to Unifying Diffusion-based Conditional Generation
175. ICLR 2025A Theory for Token-Level Harmonization in Retrieval-Augmented Generation
176. ICLR 2025Accelerating Auto-regressive Text-to-Image Generation with Training-free Speculative Jacobi Decoding
177. ICLR 2025Accelerating Inference of Retrieval-Augmented Generation via Sparse Context Selection
178. ICLR 2025Adaptive Deployment of Untrusted LLMs Reduces Distributed Threats
179. ICLR 2025Adding Conditional Control to Diffusion Models with Reinforcement Learning
180. ICLR 2025Advancing Graph Generation through Beta Diffusion
181. ICLR 2025AFlow: Automating Agentic Workflow Generation
182. ICLR 2025Aligning Human Motion Generation with Human Perceptions
183. ICLR 2025An Engorgio Prompt Makes Large Language Model Babble on
184. ICLR 2025APE: Faster and Longer Context-Augmented Generation via Adaptive Parallel Encoding
185. ICLR 2025API Pack: A Massive Multi-Programming Language Dataset for API Call Generation
186. ICLR 2025Automated Proof Generation for Rust Code via Self-Evolution
187. ICLR 2025Backtracking Improves Generation Safety
188. ICLR 2025Benchmarking Agentic Workflow Generation
189. ICLR 2025Beyond Autoregression: Fast LLMs via Self-Distillation Through Time
190. ICLR 2025BigCodeBench: Benchmarking Code Generation with Diverse Function Calls and Complex Instructions
191. ICLR 2025BigDocs: An Open Dataset for Training Multimodal Models on Document and Code Tasks
192. ICLR 2025BOND: Aligning LLMs with Best-of-N Distillation
193. ICLR 2025Calibrating LLMs with Information-Theoretic Evidential Deep Learning
194. ICLR 2025Can LLMs Generate Novel Research Ideas? A Large-Scale Human Study with 100+ NLP Researchers
195. ICLR 2025ChartMimic: Evaluating LMM's Cross-Modal Reasoning Capability via Chart-to-Code Generation
196. ICLR 2025ChatQA 2: Bridging the Gap to Proprietary LLMs in Long Context and RAG Capabilities
197. ICLR 2025ClimaQA: An Automated Evaluation Framework for Climate Question Answering Models
198. ICLR 2025CodePlan: Unlocking Reasoning Potential in Large Language Models by Scaling Code-form Planning
199. ICLR 2025Commit0: Library Generation from Scratch
200. ICLR 2025Context Steering: Controllable Personalization at Inference Time

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.