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 2025Learning How Hard to Think: Input-Adaptive Allocation of LM Computation
252. ICLR 2025Learning to Generate Diverse Pedestrian Movements from Web Videos with Noisy Labels
253. ICLR 2025Let the Code LLM Edit Itself When You Edit the Code
254. ICLR 2025LiveCodeBench: Holistic and Contamination Free Evaluation of Large Language Models for Code
255. ICLR 2025Long-Context LLMs Meet RAG: Overcoming Challenges for Long Inputs in RAG
256. ICLR 2025LongGenBench: Benchmarking Long-Form Generation in Long Context LLMs
257. ICLR 2025LongWriter: Unleashing 10,000+ Word Generation from Long Context LLMs
258. ICLR 2025MA-RLHF: Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback with Macro Actions
259. ICLR 2025MAGE: Model-Level Graph Neural Networks Explanations via Motif-based Graph Generation
260. ICLR 2025MagicDec: Breaking the Latency-Throughput Tradeoff for Long Context Generation with Speculative Decoding
261. ICLR 2025MagicPIG: LSH Sampling for Efficient LLM Generation
262. ICLR 2025MAGNet: Motif-Agnostic Generation of Molecules from Scaffolds
263. ICLR 2025Mask-DPO: Generalizable Fine-grained Factuality Alignment of LLMs
264. ICLR 2025McEval: Massively Multilingual Code Evaluation
265. ICLR 2025Measuring and Enhancing Trustworthiness of LLMs in RAG through Grounded Attributions and Learning to Refuse
266. ICLR 2025Measuring memorization in RLHF for code completion
267. ICLR 2025MeshAnything: Artist-Created Mesh Generation with Autoregressive Transformers
268. ICLR 2025Nova: Generative Language Models for Assembly Code with Hierarchical Attention and Contrastive Learning
269. ICLR 2025NV-Embed: Improved Techniques for Training LLMs as Generalist Embedding Models
270. ICLR 2025ObscuraCoder: Powering Efficient Code LM Pre-Training Via Obfuscation Grounding
271. ICLR 2025OMNI-EPIC: Open-endedness via Models of human Notions of Interestingness with Environments Programmed in Code
272. ICLR 2025OmniKV: Dynamic Context Selection for Efficient Long-Context LLMs
273. ICLR 2025One Model Transfer to All: On Robust Jailbreak Prompts Generation against LLMs
274. ICLR 2025OpenRCA: Can Large Language Models Locate the Root Cause of Software Failures?
275. ICLR 2025OptiBench Meets ReSocratic: Measure and Improve LLMs for Optimization Modeling
276. ICLR 2025PeriodWave: Multi-Period Flow Matching for High-Fidelity Waveform Generation
277. ICLR 2025Permute-and-Flip: An optimally stable and watermarkable decoder for LLMs
278. ICLR 2025PianoMotion10M: Dataset and Benchmark for Hand Motion Generation in Piano Performance
279. ICLR 2025PivotMesh: Generic 3D Mesh Generation via Pivot Vertices Guidance
280. ICLR 2025Planning Anything with Rigor: General-Purpose Zero-Shot Planning with LLM-based Formalized Programming
281. ICLR 2025Planning in Natural Language Improves LLM Search for Code Generation
282. ICLR 2025Polynomial Composition Activations: Unleashing the Dynamics of Large Language Models
283. ICLR 2025Positive-Unlabeled Diffusion Models for Preventing Sensitive Data Generation
284. ICLR 2025Procedural Synthesis of Synthesizable Molecules
285. ICLR 2025RAG-DDR: Optimizing Retrieval-Augmented Generation Using Differentiable Data Rewards
286. ICLR 2025Rare-to-Frequent: Unlocking Compositional Generation Power of Diffusion Models on Rare Concepts with LLM Guidance
287. ICLR 2025Ready-to-React: Online Reaction Policy for Two-Character Interaction Generation
288. ICLR 2025Real2Code: Reconstruct Articulated Objects via Code Generation
289. ICLR 2025Rectified Diffusion: Straightness Is Not Your Need in Rectified Flow
290. ICLR 2025RefactorBench: Evaluating Stateful Reasoning in Language Agents Through Code
291. ICLR 2025Reflexive Guidance: Improving OoDD in Vision-Language Models via Self-Guided Image-Adaptive Concept Generation
292. ICLR 2025RepoGraph: Enhancing AI Software Engineering with Repository-level Code Graph
293. ICLR 2025Resolution Attack: Exploiting Image Compression to Deceive Deep Neural Networks
294. ICLR 2025Rodimus*: Breaking the Accuracy-Efficiency Trade-Off with Efficient Attentions
295. ICLR 2025RuAG: Learned-rule-augmented Generation for Large Language Models
296. ICLR 2025SageAttention: Accurate 8-Bit Attention for Plug-and-play Inference Acceleration
297. ICLR 2025SANA: Efficient High-Resolution Text-to-Image Synthesis with Linear Diffusion Transformers
298. ICLR 2025Scaling Instruction-tuned LLMs to Million-token Contexts via Hierarchical Synthetic Data Generation
299. ICLR 2025ScienceAgentBench: Toward Rigorous Assessment of Language Agents for Data-Driven Scientific Discovery
300. ICLR 2025ScImage: How good are multimodal large language models at scientific text-to-image 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.