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 2026VecGlypher Unified Vector Glyph Generation with Language Models
- CVPR 2026ViLearn Accelerating Training Convergence of Image-to-3D Generation via Visibility Learning
- CVPR 2026VisiLock Authorizing Instruction-based Image editing with Dual Score Distillation
- CVPR 2026VVS Accelerating Speculative Decoding for Visual Autoregressive Generation via Partial
- CVPR 2026Widget2Code From Visual Widgets to UI Code via Multimodal LLMs
- CVPR 2026WonderZoom Multi-Scale 3D World Generation
- CVPR 2026You Only Erase Once Erasing Anything without Bringing Unexpected Content
- CVPR 2026Your Classifier Can Do More Towards Balancing the Gaps in
- CVPR 2026Zero-Shot Image Denoising via Hybrid Prior-Guided Pseudo Sample Generation
- CVPR 2025A Unified Image-Dense Annotation Generation Model for Underwater Scenes
- CVPR 2025Adv-CPG: A Customized Portrait Generation Framework with Facial Adversarial Attacks
- CVPR 2025Adversarial Domain Prompt Tuning and Generation for Single Domain Generalization
- CVPR 2025AIGV-Assessor: Benchmarking and Evaluating the Perceptual Quality of Text-to-Video Generation with LMM
- CVPR 2025AniMo: Species-Aware Model for Text-Driven Animal Motion Generation
- CVPR 2025Apply Hierarchical-Chain-of-Generation to Complex Attributes Text-to-3D Generation
- CVPR 2025ARM: Appearance Reconstruction Model for Relightable 3D Generation
- CVPR 2025ArtFormer: Controllable Generation of Diverse 3D Articulated Objects
- CVPR 2025ArtiScene: Language-Driven Artistic 3D Scene Generation Through Image Intermediary
- CVPR 2025AutoPresent: Designing Structured Visuals from Scratch
- CVPR 2025Autoregressive Distillation of Diffusion Transformers
- CVPR 2025Beyond Generation: A Diffusion-based Low-level Feature Extractor for Detecting AI-generated Images
- CVPR 2025Boost Your Human Image Generation Model via Direct Preference Optimization
- CVPR 2025BrepGiff: Lightweight Generation of Complex B-rep with 3D GAT Diffusion
- CVPR 2025CAD-Llama: Leveraging Large Language Models for Computer-Aided Design Parametric 3D Model Generation
- CVPR 2025CamFreeDiff: Camera-free Image to Panorama Generation with Diffusion Model
- CVPR 2025CaricatureBooth: Data-Free Interactive Caricature Generation in a Photo Booth
- CVPR 2025Chat2SVG: Vector Graphics Generation with Large Language Models and Image Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2025ChatGarment: Garment Estimation, Generation and Editing via Large Language Models
- CVPR 2025ChatGen: Automatic Text-to-Image Generation From FreeStyle Chatting
- CVPR 2025ChatHuman: Chatting about 3D Humans with Tools
- CVPR 2025Code-as-Monitor: Constraint-aware Visual Programming for Reactive and Proactive Robotic Failure Detection
- CVPR 2025ConceptGuard: Continual Personalized Text-to-Image Generation with Forgetting and Confusion Mitigation
- CVPR 2025Conformal Prediction and MLLM aided Uncertainty Quantification in Scene Graph Generation
- CVPR 2025Contextual AD Narration with Interleaved Multimodal Sequence
- CVPR 2025Continuous Locomotive Crowd Behavior Generation
- CVPR 2025CraftsMan3D: High-fidelity Mesh Generation with 3D Native Diffusion and Interactive Geometry Refiner
- CVPR 2025CXPMRG-Bench: Pre-training and Benchmarking for X-ray Medical Report Generation on CheXpert Plus Dataset
- CVPR 2025D^2iT: Dynamic Diffusion Transformer for Accurate Image Generation
- CVPR 2025DAGSM: Disentangled Avatar Generation with GS-enhanced Mesh
- CVPR 2025Decoupling Training-Free Guided Diffusion by ADMM
- CVPR 2025Design2GarmentCode: Turning Design Concepts to Tangible Garments Through Program Synthesis
- CVPR 2025Detect-and-Guide: Self-regulation of Diffusion Models for Safe Text-to-Image Generation via Guideline Token Optimization
- CVPR 2025Devil is in the Detail: Towards Injecting Fine Details of Image Prompt in Image Generation via Conflict-free Guidance and Stratified Attention
- CVPR 2025Diff-Palm: Realistic Palmprint Generation with Polynomial Creases and Intra-Class Variation Controllable Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2025Difference Inversion: Interpolate and Isolate the Difference with Token Consistency for Image Analogy Generation
- CVPR 2025DiffSensei: Bridging Multi-Modal LLMs and Diffusion Models for Customized Manga Generation
- CVPR 2025Diffusion-4K: Ultra-High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2025Diffusion-based Event Generation for High-Quality Image Deblurring
- CVPR 2025DirectTriGS: Triplane-based Gaussian Splatting Field Representation for 3D Generation
- CVPR 2025Disentangled Pose and Appearance Guidance for Multi-Pose Generation
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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.