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
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
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- ICLR 2023View Synthesis with Sculpted Neural Points
- ICML 2023Autoregressive Diffusion Model for Graph Generation
- ICML 2023Can Large Language Models Reason about Program Invariants?
- ICML 2023CodeIPPrompt: Intellectual Property Infringement Assessment of Code Language Models
- ICML 2023Coder Reviewer Reranking for Code Generation
- ICML 2023CRISP: Curriculum based Sequential neural decoders for Polar code family
- ICML 2023Dirichlet Diffusion Score Model for Biological Sequence Generation
- ICML 2023DS-1000: A Natural and Reliable Benchmark for Data Science Code Generation
- ICML 2023Exploring Chemical Space with Score-based Out-of-distribution Generation
- ICML 2023Extrapolative Controlled Sequence Generation via Iterative Refinement
- ICML 2023FlexGen: High-Throughput Generative Inference of Large Language Models with a Single GPU
- ICML 2023Geometric Latent Diffusion Models for 3D Molecule Generation
- ICML 2023Hierarchical Neural Coding for Controllable CAD Model Generation
- ICML 2023How Does Information Bottleneck Help Deep Learning?
- ICML 2023Image generation with shortest path diffusion
- ICML 2023LEVER: Learning to Verify Language-to-Code Generation with Execution
- ICML 2023Measuring the Impact of Programming Language Distribution
- ICML 2023Model-based Offline Reinforcement Learning with Count-based Conservatism
- ICML 2023MolDiff: Addressing the Atom-Bond Inconsistency Problem in 3D Molecule Diffusion Generation
- ICML 2023OpenFE: Automated Feature Generation with Expert-level Performance
- ICML 2023Outline, Then Details: Syntactically Guided Coarse-To-Fine Code Generation
- ICML 2023PAL: Program-aided Language Models
- ICML 2023Probabilistic Concept Bottleneck Models
- ICML 2023Protecting Language Generation Models via Invisible Watermarking
- ICML 2023R-U-SURE? Uncertainty-Aware Code Suggestions By Maximizing Utility Across Random User Intents
- ICML 2023Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Compositional Generation with Energy-Based Diffusion Models and MCMC
- ICML 2023Repository-Level Prompt Generation for Large Language Models of Code
- ICML 2023Semi-Autoregressive Energy Flows: Exploring Likelihood-Free Training of Normalizing Flows
- ICML 2023Slot-VAE: Object-Centric Scene Generation with Slot Attention
- ICML 2023Text Generation with Diffusion Language Models: A Pre-training Approach with Continuous Paragraph Denoise
- ICML 2023TR0N: Translator Networks for 0-Shot Plug-and-Play Conditional Generation
- ICML 2023Von Mises Mixture Distributions for Molecular Conformation Generation
- NeurIPS 2023ALGO: Synthesizing Algorithmic Programs with Generated Oracle Verifiers
- NeurIPS 2023Amazon-M2: A Multilingual Multi-locale Shopping Session Dataset for Recommendation and Text Generation
- NeurIPS 2023ANPL: Towards Natural Programming with Interactive Decomposition
- NeurIPS 2023Arbitrarily Scalable Environment Generators via Neural Cellular Automata
- NeurIPS 2023Beyond MLE: Convex Learning for Text Generation
- NeurIPS 2023CrossCodeEval: A Diverse and Multilingual Benchmark for Cross-File Code Completion
- NeurIPS 2023Debiasing Scores and Prompts of 2D Diffusion for View-consistent Text-to-3D Generation
- NeurIPS 2023Demo2Code: From Summarizing Demonstrations to Synthesizing Code via Extended Chain-of-Thought
- NeurIPS 2023Enhancing Robot Program Synthesis Through Environmental Context
- NeurIPS 2023EvoPrompting: Language Models for Code-Level Neural Architecture Search
- NeurIPS 2023FACE: Evaluating Natural Language Generation with Fourier Analysis of Cross-Entropy
- NeurIPS 2023FaceComposer: A Unified Model for Versatile Facial Content Creation
- NeurIPS 2023Improving Diffusion-Based Image Synthesis with Context Prediction
- NeurIPS 2023InterCode: Standardizing and Benchmarking Interactive Coding with Execution Feedback
- NeurIPS 2023Is Your Code Generated by ChatGPT Really Correct? Rigorous Evaluation of Large Language Models for Code Generation
- NeurIPS 2023LambdaBeam: Neural Program Search with Higher-Order Functions and Lambdas
- NeurIPS 2023Language-driven Scene Synthesis using Multi-conditional Diffusion Model
- NeurIPS 2023MarioGPT: Open-Ended Text2Level Generation through Large Language Models
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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.