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
630 papers, page 5 of 13
- NeurIPS 2026Structural Self-Teaching for Compositional Generation in Unified Multimodal Models
- NeurIPS 2026SwitchLingua V2: Agent-Driven Code-Switching via Digital Clones
- NeurIPS 2026SynBench: A Benchmark for Differentially Private Text Generation
- NeurIPS 2026SynMQG: Disentanglement and Mutual-Information Optimization for Synergistic Multi-modal Question Generation
- NeurIPS 2026Synthon Contrastive Learning for Synthesizable 3D Molecule Generation
- NeurIPS 2026TaxaAdapter: Scaling Fine-grained Species Image Generation To the Tree of Life
- NeurIPS 2026TGPO: Trace-Guided Policy Optimization for Robot Task Planning via Verifiable Subgoal Generation
- NeurIPS 2026The Future of Facts: Tracing the Factual Generation-Verification Gap
- NeurIPS 2026The Sharp Directions Are Against You: Curvature Analysis of Activation Steering
- NeurIPS 2026The Sign Code: The Hidden Binary Nature of Deep Networks
- NeurIPS 2026The Unembedding Bottleneck: A Mechanistic Analysis of Single Digit Counting in LLMs
- NeurIPS 2026TimeTok: Granularity-Controllable Time-Series Generation via Hierarchical Tokenization
- NeurIPS 2026TKCAM: Text and Keyframe to Camera Trajectory Generation
- NeurIPS 2026Tokenizer-Generator Coupling in Medical Image Generation
- NeurIPS 2026Toward Executable Multi-framework Front-end Code Generation with Self-Correction
- NeurIPS 2026Toward Interactive Understanding of Code APIs
- NeurIPS 2026Towards Direct Latent-Space Synthesis for Parallel Branches in LLM-Agent Workflows
- NeurIPS 2026TransitLM: A Large-Scale Dataset and Benchmark for Map-Free Transit Route Generation
- NeurIPS 2026Trellis4D: Complex 4D Mesh Generation
- NeurIPS 2026UniPath: Adaptive Coordination of Understanding and Generation for Unified Multimodal Reasoning
- NeurIPS 2026UniSHARP: Universal Sharp Monocular View Synthesis
- NeurIPS 2026Useful Memories Become Faulty When Continuously Updated by LLMs
- NeurIPS 2026Veri-Sure: Multi-Agent RTL Code Generation with Temporal Tracing, Slicing and Formal Verification
- NeurIPS 2026VeriContest: A Competitive-Programming Benchmark for Verifiable Code Generation
- NeurIPS 2026Verification-Guided Abstraction Generation with Large Language Models for Generalized Planning
- NeurIPS 2026Verifier-Backed Hard Problem Generation for Mathematical Reasoning
- NeurIPS 2026Verifiers in the Loop: Decoding Time Verification for Code Translation
- NeurIPS 2026VideoMDM: Towards 3D Human Motion Generation From 2D Supervision
- NeurIPS 2026Viverra: Text-to-Code with Guarantees
- NeurIPS 2026VUM: Visual Unified Models for Image Generation and Perception
- NeurIPS 2026When Copying Is Hard: Copy-Constrained Decoding for Exact Span Reproduction
- NeurIPS 2026Which Tokens to Merge? Diffusion Dynamics for Efficient Image Generation
- NeurIPS 2026Who&When Pro: Can LLMs Really Attribute Failures in AI Agents?
- NeurIPS 2026WorldCoder-Bench: Benchmarking Physically Grounded 3D World Synthesis
- NeurIPS 2026X2HDR: HDR Image Generation in a Perceptually Uniform Space
- NeurIPS 2026XTraj: A Coarse-to-Fine Autoregressive Framework for Transferable Trajectory Generation
- NeurIPS 2025$\texttt{STRCMP}$: Integrating Graph Structural Priors with Language Models for Combinatorial Optimization
- NeurIPS 2025AceSearcher: Bootstrapping Reasoning and Search for LLMs via Reinforced Self-Play
- NeurIPS 2025Activation-Informed Merging of Large Language Models
- NeurIPS 2025Adaptive 3D Reconstruction via Diffusion Priors and Forward Curvature-Matching Likelihood Updates
- NeurIPS 2025Adaptive Discretization for Consistency Models
- NeurIPS 2025Advanced Sign Language Video Generation with Compressed and Quantized Multi-Condition Tokenization
- NeurIPS 2025AdvPrefix: An Objective for Nuanced LLM Jailbreaks
- NeurIPS 2025Afterburner: Reinforcement Learning Facilitates Self-Improving Code Efficiency Optimization
- NeurIPS 2025AI Research Agents for Machine Learning: Search, Exploration, and Generalization in MLE-bench
- NeurIPS 2025AlignedGen: Aligning Style Across Generated Images
- NeurIPS 2025AlphaDecay: Module-wise Weight Decay for Heavy-Tailed Balancing in LLMs
- NeurIPS 2025ALTo: Adaptive-Length Tokenizer for Autoregressive Mask Generation
- NeurIPS 2025AnimateQR: Bridging Aesthetics and Functionality in Dynamic QR Code Generation
- NeurIPS 2025APML: Adaptive Probabilistic Matching Loss for Robust 3D Point Cloud Reconstruction
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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.