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
241 papers, page 5 of 5
- ICLR 2026SliderQuant: Accurate Post-Training Quantization for LLMs
- ICLR 2026Soft-Di[M]O: Improved one-step Image Discrete Model
- ICLR 2026Soft-Masked Diffusion Language Models
- ICLR 2026SongEcho: Towards Cover Song Generation via Instance-Adaptive Element-wise Linear Modulation
- ICLR 2026SPARTA: Scalable and Principled Benchmark of Tree-Structured Multi-hop QA over Text and Tables
- ICLR 2026SSG: Scaled Spatial Guidance for Multi-Scale Visual Autoregressive Generation
- ICLR 2026Steering Autoregressive Music Generation with Recursive Feature Machines
- ICLR 2026Step-Aware Residual-Guided Diffusion for EEG Spatial Super-Resolution
- ICLR 2026Stop Tracking Me! Proactive Defense Against Attribute Inference Attack in LLMs
- ICLR 2026StoryAlign: Evaluating and Training Reward Models for Story Generation
- ICLR 2026Streaming Autoregressive Video Generation via Diagonal Distillation
- ICLR 2026String Seed of Thought: Prompting LLMs for Distribution-Faithful and Diverse Generation
- ICLR 2026StyliTruth : Unlocking Stylized yet Truthful LLM Generation via Disentangled Steering
- ICLR 2026SWERank: Software Issue Localization with Code Ranking
- ICLR 2026SWINGARENA: Adversarial Programming Arena for Long-context GitHub Issue Solving
- ICLR 2026SyncTrack: Rhythmic Stability and Synchronization in Multi-Track Music Generation
- ICLR 2026Tell me Habibi, is it Real or Fake?
- ICLR 2026Test-Time Alignment for Large Language Models via Textual Model Predictive Control
- ICLR 2026The Matthew Effect of AI Programming Assistants: A Hidden Bias in Software Evolution
- ICLR 2026The Natural Geometry of Code: Hyperbolic Representation Learning for Program Reasoning
- ICLR 2026The Quest for Generalizable Motion Generation: Data, Model, and Evaluation
- ICLR 2026Think-While-Generating: On-the-Fly Reasoning for Personalized Long-Form Generation
- ICLR 2026TikZilla: Scaling Text-to-TikZ with High-Quality Data and Reinforcement Learning
- ICLR 2026ToolACE-MT: Non-Autoregressive Generation for Agentic Multi-Turn Interaction
- ICLR 2026Topology-Preserved Auto-regressive Mesh Generation in the Manner of Weaving Silk
- ICLR 2026Toward Complex-Valued Neural Networks for Waveform Generation
- ICLR 2026TrajTok: What makes for a good trajectory tokenizer in behavior generation?
- ICLR 2026TROLL: Trust Regions Improve Reinforcement Learning for Large Language Models
- ICLR 2026Turning Internal Gap into Self-Improvement: Promoting the Generation-Understanding Unification in MLLMs
- ICLR 2026UniCalli: A Unified Diffusion Framework for Column-Level Generation and Recognition of Chinese Calligraphy
- ICLR 2026VeriEquivBench: An Equivalence Score for Ground-Truth-Free Evaluation of Formally Verifiable Code
- ICLR 2026VERINA: Benchmarking Verifiable Code Generation
- ICLR 2026VideoPhy-2: A Challenging Action-Centric Physical Commonsense Evaluation in Video Generation
- ICLR 2026VisCoder2: Building Multi-Language Visualization Coding Agents
- ICLR 2026VisCodex: Unified Multimodal Code Generation via Merging Vision and Coding Models
- ICLR 2026VSF: Simple, Efficient, and Effective Negative Guidance in Few-Step Image Generation Models By Value Sign Flip
- ICLR 2026What's the plan? Metrics for implicit planning in LLMs and their application to rhyme generation
- ICLR 2026Why is Your Language Model a Poor Implicit Reward Model?
- ICLR 2026WithAnyone: Toward Controllable and ID Consistent Image Generation
- ICLR 2026Zephyrus: An Agentic Framework for Weather Science
- ICLR 2026ZIP-RC: Zero-overhead Inference-time Prediction of Reward and Cost for Adaptive and Interpretable 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.