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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301. ICML 2024Harmony in Diversity: Merging Neural Networks with Canonical Correlation Analysis
302. ICML 2024HumanTOMATO: Text-aligned Whole-body Motion Generation
303. ICML 2024Hyperbolic Geometric Latent Diffusion Model for Graph Generation
304. ICML 2024IM-3D: Iterative Multiview Diffusion and Reconstruction for High-Quality 3D Generation
305. ICML 2024Improving Open-Ended Text Generation via Adaptive Decoding
306. ICML 2024In value-based deep reinforcement learning, a pruned network is a good network
307. ICML 2024Instruction Tuning for Secure Code Generation
308. ICML 2024KV-Runahead: Scalable Causal LLM Inference by Parallel Key-Value Cache Generation
309. ICML 2024LaMAGIC: Language-Model-based Topology Generation for Analog Integrated Circuits
310. ICML 2024Language Generation with Strictly Proper Scoring Rules
311. ICML 2024Learning Linear Block Error Correction Codes
312. ICML 2024Learning to Compile Programs to Neural Networks
313. ICML 2024Learning Universal Predictors
314. ICML 2024Lookbehind-SAM: k steps back, 1 step forward
315. ICML 2024Magicoder: Empowering Code Generation with OSS-Instruct
316. ICML 2024MEMORYLLM: Towards Self-Updatable Large Language Models
317. ICML 2024MILP-FBGen: LP/MILP Instance Generation with Feasibility/Boundedness
318. ICML 2024Model-Based Minimum Bayes Risk Decoding for Text Generation
319. ICML 2024MorphGrower: A Synchronized Layer-by-layer Growing Approach for Plausible Neuronal Morphology Generation
320. ICML 2024Multicalibration for Confidence Scoring in LLMs
321. ICML 2024Neural Networks Learn Statistics of Increasing Complexity
322. ICML 2024NExT: Teaching Large Language Models to Reason about Code Execution
323. ICML 2024O$n$ Learning Deep O($n$)-Equivariant Hyperspheres
324. ICML 2024Online Speculative Decoding
325. ICML 2024PARDEN, Can You Repeat That? Defending against Jailbreaks via Repetition
326. ICML 2024Partially Stochastic Infinitely Deep Bayesian Neural Networks
327. ICML 2024PinNet: Pinpoint Instructive Information for Retrieval Augmented Code-to-Text Generation
328. ICML 2024Position: Cracking the Code of Cascading Disparity Towards Marginalized Communities
329. ICML 2024Preference Optimization for Molecule Synthesis with Conditional Residual Energy-based Models
330. ICML 2024Protein Conformation Generation via Force-Guided SE(3) Diffusion Models
331. ICML 2024Proteus: Exploring Protein Structure Generation for Enhanced Designability and Efficiency
332. ICML 2024Purifying Quantization-conditioned Backdoors via Layer-wise Activation Correction with Distribution Approximation
333. ICML 2024RAUCA: A Novel Physical Adversarial Attack on Vehicle Detectors via Robust and Accurate Camouflage Generation
334. ICML 2024Referee Can Play: An Alternative Approach to Conditional Generation via Model Inversion
335. ICML 2024ReGAL: Refactoring Programs to Discover Generalizable Abstractions
336. ICML 2024Repoformer: Selective Retrieval for Repository-Level Code Completion
337. ICML 2024RoboCodeX: Multimodal Code Generation for Robotic Behavior Synthesis
338. ICML 2024Scaling Rectified Flow Transformers for High-Resolution Image Synthesis
339. ICML 2024Scene Graph Generation Strategy with Co-occurrence Knowledge and Learnable Term Frequency
340. ICML 2024SceneCraft: An LLM Agent for Synthesizing 3D Scenes as Blender Code
341. ICML 2024Score identity Distillation: Exponentially Fast Distillation of Pretrained Diffusion Models for One-Step Generation
342. ICML 2024Self-Infilling Code Generation
343. ICML 2024Semantic-Aware Human Object Interaction Image Generation
344. ICML 2024SLEB: Streamlining LLMs through Redundancy Verification and Elimination of Transformer Blocks
345. ICML 2024Soft Prompt Recovers Compressed LLMs, Transferably
346. ICML 2024Stay on Topic with Classifier-Free Guidance
347. ICML 2024Stochastic Conditional Diffusion Models for Robust Semantic Image Synthesis
348. ICML 2024StrokeNUWA—Tokenizing Strokes for Vector Graphic Synthesis
349. ICML 2024Superposition Prompting: Improving and Accelerating Retrieval-Augmented Generation
350. ICML 2024Swallowing the Bitter Pill: Simplified Scalable Conformer 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.