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

Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up

• 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

526 papers, page 7 of 11

301. ICLR 2025Generating CAD Code with Vision-Language Models for 3D Designs
302. ICLR 2025GeSubNet: Gene Interaction Inference for Disease Subtype Network Generation
303. ICLR 2025GOLD: Graph Out-of-Distribution Detection via Implicit Adversarial Latent Generation
304. ICLR 2025Guaranteed Generation from Large Language Models
305. ICLR 2025Gumbel Counterfactual Generation From Language Models
306. ICLR 2025How efficient is LLM-generated code? A rigorous & high-standard benchmark
307. ICLR 2025HyperPLR: Hypergraph Generation through Projection, Learning, and Reconstruction
308. ICLR 2025HyPoGen: Optimization-Biased Hypernetworks for Generalizable Policy Generation
309. ICLR 2025Improving Uncertainty Estimation through Semantically Diverse Language Generation
310. ICLR 2025InCoDe: Interpretable Compressed Descriptions For Image Generation
311. ICLR 2025Innovative Thinking, Infinite Humor: Humor Research of Large Language Models through Structured Thought Leaps
312. ICLR 2025InsightBench: Evaluating Business Analytics Agents Through Multi-Step Insight Generation
313. ICLR 2025InstructRAG: Instructing Retrieval-Augmented Generation via Self-Synthesized Rationales
314. ICLR 2025IRIS: LLM-Assisted Static Analysis for Detecting Security Vulnerabilities
315. ICLR 2025Is Factuality Enhancement a Free Lunch For LLMs? Better Factuality Can Lead to Worse Context-Faithfulness
316. ICLR 2025It Helps to Take a Second Opinion: Teaching Smaller LLMs To Deliberate Mutually via Selective Rationale Optimisation
317. ICLR 2025IterGen: Iterative Semantic-aware Structured LLM Generation with Backtracking
318. ICLR 2025Large Language Models are Interpretable Learners
319. ICLR 2025LayerDAG: A Layerwise Autoregressive Diffusion Model for Directed Acyclic Graph Generation
320. ICLR 2025Learning How Hard to Think: Input-Adaptive Allocation of LM Computation
321. ICLR 2025Learning to Generate Diverse Pedestrian Movements from Web Videos with Noisy Labels
322. ICLR 2025Let the Code LLM Edit Itself When You Edit the Code
323. ICLR 2025LiveCodeBench: Holistic and Contamination Free Evaluation of Large Language Models for Code
324. ICLR 2025Long-Context LLMs Meet RAG: Overcoming Challenges for Long Inputs in RAG
325. ICLR 2025LongGenBench: Benchmarking Long-Form Generation in Long Context LLMs
326. ICLR 2025LongWriter: Unleashing 10,000+ Word Generation from Long Context LLMs
327. ICLR 2025MA-RLHF: Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback with Macro Actions
328. ICLR 2025MAGE: Model-Level Graph Neural Networks Explanations via Motif-based Graph Generation
329. ICLR 2025MagicDec: Breaking the Latency-Throughput Tradeoff for Long Context Generation with Speculative Decoding
330. ICLR 2025MagicPIG: LSH Sampling for Efficient LLM Generation
331. ICLR 2025MAGNet: Motif-Agnostic Generation of Molecules from Scaffolds
332. ICLR 2025Mask-DPO: Generalizable Fine-grained Factuality Alignment of LLMs
333. ICLR 2025McEval: Massively Multilingual Code Evaluation
334. ICLR 2025Measuring and Enhancing Trustworthiness of LLMs in RAG through Grounded Attributions and Learning to Refuse
335. ICLR 2025Measuring memorization in RLHF for code completion
336. ICLR 2025MeshAnything: Artist-Created Mesh Generation with Autoregressive Transformers
337. ICLR 2025Nova: Generative Language Models for Assembly Code with Hierarchical Attention and Contrastive Learning
338. ICLR 2025NV-Embed: Improved Techniques for Training LLMs as Generalist Embedding Models
339. ICLR 2025ObscuraCoder: Powering Efficient Code LM Pre-Training Via Obfuscation Grounding
340. ICLR 2025OMNI-EPIC: Open-endedness via Models of human Notions of Interestingness with Environments Programmed in Code
341. ICLR 2025OmniKV: Dynamic Context Selection for Efficient Long-Context LLMs
342. ICLR 2025One Model Transfer to All: On Robust Jailbreak Prompts Generation against LLMs
343. ICLR 2025OpenRCA: Can Large Language Models Locate the Root Cause of Software Failures?
344. ICLR 2025OptiBench Meets ReSocratic: Measure and Improve LLMs for Optimization Modeling
345. ICLR 2025PeriodWave: Multi-Period Flow Matching for High-Fidelity Waveform Generation
346. ICLR 2025Permute-and-Flip: An optimally stable and watermarkable decoder for LLMs
347. ICLR 2025PianoMotion10M: Dataset and Benchmark for Hand Motion Generation in Piano Performance
348. ICLR 2025PivotMesh: Generic 3D Mesh Generation via Pivot Vertices Guidance
349. ICLR 2025Planning Anything with Rigor: General-Purpose Zero-Shot Planning with LLM-based Formalized Programming
350. ICLR 2025Planning in Natural Language Improves LLM Search for Code 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.