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. ICLR 2026Gradient-Based Program Synthesis with Neurally Interpreted Languages
302. ICLR 2026GuidedSampling: Steering LLMs Towards Diverse Candidate Solutions at Inference-Time
303. ICLR 2026Gumbel Distillation for Parallel Text Generation
304. ICLR 2026HARDTESTGEN: A High-Quality RL Verifier Generation Pipeline for LLM Algorithimic Coding
305. ICLR 2026Harpoon: Generalised Manifold Guidance for Conditional Tabular Diffusion
306. ICLR 2026Helmsman: Autonomous Synthesis of Federated Learning Systems via Collaborative LLM Agents
307. ICLR 2026HeuriGym: An Agentic Benchmark for LLM-Crafted Heuristics in Combinatorial Optimization
308. ICLR 2026HiddenEcho: Mitigating Noise Amplification in Differentially Private LLMs with Hidden-State Correction
309. ICLR 2026HOG-Diff: Higher-Order Guided Diffusion for Graph Generation
310. ICLR 2026How Many Code and Test Cases Are Enough? Evaluating Test Cases Generation from a Binary-Matrix Perspective
311. ICLR 2026Hyperspherical Latents Improve Continuous-Token Autoregressive Generation
312. ICLR 2026Improving Classifier-Free Guidance in Masked Diffusion: Low-Dim Theoretical Insights with High-Dim Impact
313. ICLR 2026Improving Code Localization with Repository Memory
314. ICLR 2026InfBaGel: Human-Object-Scene Interaction Generation with Dynamic Perception and Iterative Refinement
315. ICLR 2026InfGen: Scenario Generation as Next Token Group Prediction
316. ICLR 2026Interp3D: Correspondence-aware Interpolation for Generative Textured 3D Morphing
317. ICLR 2026JailNewsBench: Multi-Lingual and Regional Benchmark for Fake News Generation under Jailbreak Attacks
318. ICLR 2026JanusCoder: Towards a Foundational Visual-Programmatic Interface for Code Intelligence
319. ICLR 2026jqBench: a benchmark for reading and editing JSON from natural language and/or examples
320. ICLR 2026KaLM-Embedding-V2: Superior Training Techniques and Data Inspire A Versatile Embedding Model
321. ICLR 2026Kevin: Multi-Turn RL for Generating CUDA Kernels
322. ICLR 2026Large Scale Diffusion Distillation via Score-Regularized Continuous-Time Consistency
323. ICLR 2026Learning to Generate Unit Test via Adversarial Reinforcement Learning
324. ICLR 2026Let's Explore Step by Step: Generating Provable Formal Statements with Deductive Exploration
325. ICLR 2026Leveraging Pretrained Knowledge at Inference Time: LoRA-Gated Contrastive Decoding for Multilingual Factual Language Generation in Adapted LLMs
326. ICLR 2026LightMem: Lightweight and Efficient Memory-Augmented Generation
327. ICLR 2026LinearRAG: Linear Graph Retrieval Augmented Generation on Large-scale Corpora
328. ICLR 2026LLM as an Algorithmist: Enhancing Anomaly Detectors via Programmatic Synthesis
329. ICLR 2026LLM-Guided Evolutionary Program Synthesis for Quasi-Monte Carlo Design
330. ICLR 2026Locality-aware Parallel Decoding for Efficient Autoregressive Image Generation
331. ICLR 2026LookaheadKV: Fast and Accurate KV Cache Eviction by Glimpsing into the Future without Generation
332. ICLR 2026LUMINA: Detecting Hallucinations in RAG System with Context–Knowledge Signals
333. ICLR 2026M4PQA: A Comprehensive QA Dataset for AI Research with Instance-Level Evaluation
334. ICLR 2026MAGREF: Masked Guidance for Any-Reference Video Generation with Subject Disentanglement
335. ICLR 2026Making, Not Taking, the Best of N
336. ICLR 2026MANZANO: A Simple and Scalable Unified Multimodal Model with a Hybrid Vision Tokenizer
337. ICLR 2026MaskCO: Masked Generation Drives Effective Representation Learning and Exploiting for Combinatorial Optimization
338. ICLR 2026Massive Activations are the Key to Local Detail Synthesis in Diffusion Transformers
339. ICLR 2026Massive Editing for Large Language Models Based on Dynamic Weight Generation
340. ICLR 2026Mastering Sparse CUDA Generation through Pretrained Models and Deep Reinforcement Learning
341. ICLR 2026mCLM: A Modular Chemical Language Model that Generates Functional and Makeable Molecules
342. ICLR 2026Measuring LLM Novelty As The Frontier Of Original And High-Quality Output
343. ICLR 2026MedAgentGym: A Scalable Agentic Training Environment for Code-Centric Reasoning in Biomedical Data Science
344. ICLR 2026Metis: Training LLMs with FP4 Quantization
345. ICLR 2026Modeling Others' Minds as Code
346. ICLR 2026MOSAIC: Multi-Subject Personalized Generation via Correspondence-Aware Alignment and Disentanglement
347. ICLR 2026Multi-LCB: Extending LiveCodeBench to Multiple Programming Languages
348. ICLR 2026MultiMat: Multimodal Program Synthesis for Procedural Materials using Large Multimodal Models
349. ICLR 2026Next Visual Granularity Generation
350. ICLR 2026NextStep-1: Toward Autoregressive Image Generation with Continuous Tokens at Scale

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.