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

526 papers, page 8 of 11

351. ICLR 2025Polynomial Composition Activations: Unleashing the Dynamics of Large Language Models
352. ICLR 2025Positive-Unlabeled Diffusion Models for Preventing Sensitive Data Generation
353. ICLR 2025Procedural Synthesis of Synthesizable Molecules
354. ICLR 2025RAG-DDR: Optimizing Retrieval-Augmented Generation Using Differentiable Data Rewards
355. ICLR 2025Rare-to-Frequent: Unlocking Compositional Generation Power of Diffusion Models on Rare Concepts with LLM Guidance
356. ICLR 2025Ready-to-React: Online Reaction Policy for Two-Character Interaction Generation
357. ICLR 2025Real2Code: Reconstruct Articulated Objects via Code Generation
358. ICLR 2025Rectified Diffusion: Straightness Is Not Your Need in Rectified Flow
359. ICLR 2025RefactorBench: Evaluating Stateful Reasoning in Language Agents Through Code
360. ICLR 2025Reflexive Guidance: Improving OoDD in Vision-Language Models via Self-Guided Image-Adaptive Concept Generation
361. ICLR 2025RepoGraph: Enhancing AI Software Engineering with Repository-level Code Graph
362. ICLR 2025Resolution Attack: Exploiting Image Compression to Deceive Deep Neural Networks
363. ICLR 2025Rodimus*: Breaking the Accuracy-Efficiency Trade-Off with Efficient Attentions
364. ICLR 2025RuAG: Learned-rule-augmented Generation for Large Language Models
365. ICLR 2025SageAttention: Accurate 8-Bit Attention for Plug-and-play Inference Acceleration
366. ICLR 2025SANA: Efficient High-Resolution Text-to-Image Synthesis with Linear Diffusion Transformers
367. ICLR 2025Scaling Instruction-tuned LLMs to Million-token Contexts via Hierarchical Synthetic Data Generation
368. ICLR 2025ScienceAgentBench: Toward Rigorous Assessment of Language Agents for Data-Driven Scientific Discovery
369. ICLR 2025ScImage: How good are multimodal large language models at scientific text-to-image generation?
370. ICLR 2025SFS: Smarter Code Space Search improves LLM Inference Scaling
371. ICLR 2025Shh, don't say that! Domain Certification in LLMs
372. ICLR 2025Show-o: One Single Transformer to Unify Multimodal Understanding and Generation
373. ICLR 2025SINGAPO: Single Image Controlled Generation of Articulated Parts in Objects
374. ICLR 2025Sitcom-Crafter: A Plot-Driven Human Motion Generation System in 3D Scenes
375. ICLR 2025Speculative RAG: Enhancing Retrieval Augmented Generation through Drafting
376. ICLR 2025Spider 2.0: Evaluating Language Models on Real-World Enterprise Text-to-SQL Workflows
377. ICLR 2025STAR: Synthesis of Tailored Architectures
378. ICLR 2025STBLLM: Breaking the 1-Bit Barrier with Structured Binary LLMs
379. ICLR 2025Steering Large Language Models between Code Execution and Textual Reasoning
380. ICLR 2025Sufficient Context: A New Lens on Retrieval Augmented Generation Systems
381. ICLR 2025SysBench: Can LLMs Follow System Message?
382. ICLR 2025Taming Overconfidence in LLMs: Reward Calibration in RLHF
383. ICLR 2025TC-MoE: Augmenting Mixture of Experts with Ternary Expert Choice
384. ICLR 2025Teaching LLMs How to Learn with Contextual Fine-Tuning
385. ICLR 2025Temporal Heterogeneous Graph Generation with Privacy, Utility, and Efficiency
386. ICLR 2025TestGenEval: A Real World Unit Test Generation and Test Completion Benchmark
387. ICLR 2025The Hyperfitting Phenomenon: Sharpening and Stabilizing LLMs for Open-Ended Text Generation
388. ICLR 2025The KoLMogorov Test: Compression by Code Generation
389. ICLR 2025The Ramanujan Library - Automated Discovery on the Hypergraph of Integer Relations
390. ICLR 2025The Rise and Down of Babel Tower: Investigating the Evolution Process of Multilingual Code Large Language Model
391. ICLR 2025ThinK: Thinner Key Cache by Query-Driven Pruning
392. ICLR 2025To Code or Not To Code? Exploring Impact of Code in Pre-training
393. ICLR 2025Towards Realistic Data Generation for Real-World Super-Resolution
394. ICLR 2025Training Language Models on Synthetic Edit Sequences Improves Code Synthesis
395. ICLR 2025TULIP: Token-length Upgraded CLIP
396. ICLR 2025Turning Up the Heat: Min-p Sampling for Creative and Coherent LLM Outputs
397. ICLR 2025Two Sparse Matrices are Better than One: Sparsifying Neural Networks with Double Sparse Factorization
398. ICLR 2025Uncertainty-Aware Decoding with Minimum Bayes Risk
399. ICLR 2025Unveiling the Magic of Code Reasoning through Hypothesis Decomposition and Amendment
400. ICLR 2025Unveiling the Secret Recipe: A Guide For Supervised Fine-Tuning Small LLMs

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.