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

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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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251. ICLR 2025Aligning Human Motion Generation with Human Perceptions
252. ICLR 2025An Engorgio Prompt Makes Large Language Model Babble on
253. ICLR 2025APE: Faster and Longer Context-Augmented Generation via Adaptive Parallel Encoding
254. ICLR 2025API Pack: A Massive Multi-Programming Language Dataset for API Call Generation
255. ICLR 2025Automated Proof Generation for Rust Code via Self-Evolution
256. ICLR 2025Backtracking Improves Generation Safety
257. ICLR 2025Benchmarking Agentic Workflow Generation
258. ICLR 2025Beyond Autoregression: Fast LLMs via Self-Distillation Through Time
259. ICLR 2025BigCodeBench: Benchmarking Code Generation with Diverse Function Calls and Complex Instructions
260. ICLR 2025BigDocs: An Open Dataset for Training Multimodal Models on Document and Code Tasks
261. ICLR 2025BOND: Aligning LLMs with Best-of-N Distillation
262. ICLR 2025Calibrating LLMs with Information-Theoretic Evidential Deep Learning
263. ICLR 2025Can LLMs Generate Novel Research Ideas? A Large-Scale Human Study with 100+ NLP Researchers
264. ICLR 2025ChartMimic: Evaluating LMM's Cross-Modal Reasoning Capability via Chart-to-Code Generation
265. ICLR 2025ChatQA 2: Bridging the Gap to Proprietary LLMs in Long Context and RAG Capabilities
266. ICLR 2025ClimaQA: An Automated Evaluation Framework for Climate Question Answering Models
267. ICLR 2025CodePlan: Unlocking Reasoning Potential in Large Language Models by Scaling Code-form Planning
268. ICLR 2025Commit0: Library Generation from Scratch
269. ICLR 2025Context Steering: Controllable Personalization at Inference Time
270. ICLR 2025ControlAR: Controllable Image Generation with Autoregressive Models
271. ICLR 2025Controllable Generation via Locally Constrained Resampling
272. ICLR 2025ConvCodeWorld: Benchmarking Conversational Code Generation in Reproducible Feedback Environments
273. ICLR 2025Copyright-Protected Language Generation via Adaptive Model Fusion
274. ICLR 2025CoRNStack: High-Quality Contrastive Data for Better Code Retrieval and Reranking
275. ICLR 2025Correlation and Navigation in the Vocabulary Key Representation Space of Language Models
276. ICLR 2025CraftRTL: High-quality Synthetic Data Generation for Verilog Code Models with Correct-by-Construction Non-Textual Representations and Targeted Code Repair
277. ICLR 2025CubeDiff: Repurposing Diffusion-Based Image Models for Panorama Generation
278. ICLR 2025DataGen: Unified Synthetic Dataset Generation via Large Language Models
279. ICLR 2025DAWN: Dynamic Frame Avatar with Non-autoregressive Diffusion Framework for Talking head Video Generation
280. ICLR 2025DeepRTL: Bridging Verilog Understanding and Generation with a Unified Representation Model
281. ICLR 2025Diffusing to the Top: Boost Graph Neural Networks with Minimal Hyperparameter Tuning
282. ICLR 2025Diffusion On Syntax Trees For Program Synthesis
283. ICLR 2025Diffusion-based Neural Network Weights Generation
284. ICLR 2025DiscoveryBench: Towards Data-Driven Discovery with Large Language Models
285. ICLR 2025Discrete Distribution Networks
286. ICLR 2025Drop-Upcycling: Training Sparse Mixture of Experts with Partial Re-initialization
287. ICLR 2025DynamicCity: Large-Scale 4D Occupancy Generation from Dynamic Scenes
288. ICLR 2025ECHOPulse: ECG Controlled Echocardio-gram Video Generation
289. ICLR 2025Emerging Safety Attack and Defense in Federated Instruction Tuning of Large Language Models
290. ICLR 2025ESE: Espresso Sentence Embeddings
291. ICLR 2025Execution-guided within-prompt search for programming-by-example
292. ICLR 2025Explore Theory of Mind: program-guided adversarial data generation for theory of mind reasoning
293. ICLR 2025FaithEval: Can Your Language Model Stay Faithful to Context, Even If "The Moon is Made of Marshmallows"
294. ICLR 2025Fast Direct: Query-Efficient Online Black-box Guidance for Diffusion-model Target Generation
295. ICLR 2025FlexCAD: Unified and Versatile Controllable CAD Generation with Fine-tuned Large Language Models
296. ICLR 2025Forking Paths in Neural Text Generation
297. ICLR 2025FreCaS: Efficient Higher-Resolution Image Generation via Frequency-aware Cascaded Sampling
298. ICLR 2025FreeVS: Generative View Synthesis on Free Driving Trajectory
299. ICLR 2025From Few to Many: Self-Improving Many-Shot Reasoners Through Iterative Optimization and Generation
300. ICLR 2025GALA: Geometry-Aware Local Adaptive Grids for Detailed 3D Generation

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.