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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351. ICML 2024Switchable Decision: Dynamic Neural Generation Networks
352. ICML 2024Symbolic Music Generation with Non-Differentiable Rule Guided Diffusion
353. ICML 2024The Illusion of State in State-Space Models
354. ICML 2024tinyBenchmarks: evaluating LLMs with fewer examples
355. ICML 2024tnGPS: Discovering Unknown Tensor Network Structure Search Algorithms via Large Language Models (LLMs)
356. ICML 2024To the Max: Reinventing Reward in Reinforcement Learning
357. ICML 2024Unified Generation, Reconstruction, and Representation: Generalized Diffusion with Adaptive Latent Encoding-Decoding
358. ICML 2024Unsupervised Episode Generation for Graph Meta-learning
359. ICML 2024Unsupervised Evaluation of Code LLMs with Round-Trip Correctness
360. ICML 2024UPAM: Unified Prompt Attack in Text-to-Image Generation Models Against Both Textual Filters and Visual Checkers
361. ICML 2024Value-Evolutionary-Based Reinforcement Learning
362. ICML 2024Watermark Stealing in Large Language Models
363. ICML 2024When Will Gradient Regularization Be Harmful?
364. ICML 2024X-Oscar: A Progressive Framework for High-quality Text-guided 3D Animatable Avatar Generation
365. ICML 2023Autoregressive Diffusion Model for Graph Generation
366. ICML 2023Can Large Language Models Reason about Program Invariants?
367. ICML 2023CodeIPPrompt: Intellectual Property Infringement Assessment of Code Language Models
368. ICML 2023Coder Reviewer Reranking for Code Generation
369. ICML 2023CRISP: Curriculum based Sequential neural decoders for Polar code family
370. ICML 2023Dirichlet Diffusion Score Model for Biological Sequence Generation
371. ICML 2023DS-1000: A Natural and Reliable Benchmark for Data Science Code Generation
372. ICML 2023Exploring Chemical Space with Score-based Out-of-distribution Generation
373. ICML 2023Extrapolative Controlled Sequence Generation via Iterative Refinement
374. ICML 2023FlexGen: High-Throughput Generative Inference of Large Language Models with a Single GPU
375. ICML 2023Geometric Latent Diffusion Models for 3D Molecule Generation
376. ICML 2023Hierarchical Neural Coding for Controllable CAD Model Generation
377. ICML 2023How Does Information Bottleneck Help Deep Learning?
378. ICML 2023Image generation with shortest path diffusion
379. ICML 2023LEVER: Learning to Verify Language-to-Code Generation with Execution
380. ICML 2023Measuring the Impact of Programming Language Distribution
381. ICML 2023Model-based Offline Reinforcement Learning with Count-based Conservatism
382. ICML 2023MolDiff: Addressing the Atom-Bond Inconsistency Problem in 3D Molecule Diffusion Generation
383. ICML 2023OpenFE: Automated Feature Generation with Expert-level Performance
384. ICML 2023Outline, Then Details: Syntactically Guided Coarse-To-Fine Code Generation
385. ICML 2023PAL: Program-aided Language Models
386. ICML 2023Probabilistic Concept Bottleneck Models
387. ICML 2023Protecting Language Generation Models via Invisible Watermarking
388. ICML 2023R-U-SURE? Uncertainty-Aware Code Suggestions By Maximizing Utility Across Random User Intents
389. ICML 2023Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Compositional Generation with Energy-Based Diffusion Models and MCMC
390. ICML 2023Repository-Level Prompt Generation for Large Language Models of Code
391. ICML 2023Semi-Autoregressive Energy Flows: Exploring Likelihood-Free Training of Normalizing Flows
392. ICML 2023Slot-VAE: Object-Centric Scene Generation with Slot Attention
393. ICML 2023Text Generation with Diffusion Language Models: A Pre-training Approach with Continuous Paragraph Denoise
394. ICML 2023TR0N: Translator Networks for 0-Shot Plug-and-Play Conditional Generation
395. ICML 2023Von Mises Mixture Distributions for Molecular Conformation 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.