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 2025CodeSync: Synchronizing Large Language Models with Dynamic Code Evolution at Scale
352. ICML 2025Continuous Visual Autoregressive Generation via Score Maximization
353. ICML 2025Controllable Data Generation with Hierarchical Neural Representations
354. ICML 2025Copilot Arena: A Platform for Code LLM Evaluation in the Wild
355. ICML 2025CRANE: Reasoning with constrained LLM generation
356. ICML 2025CROW: Eliminating Backdoors from Large Language Models via Internal Consistency Regularization
357. ICML 2025CursorCore: Assist Programming through Aligning Anything
358. ICML 2025Deep Reinforcement Learning from Hierarchical Preference Design
359. ICML 2025DiffMS: Diffusion Generation of Molecules Conditioned on Mass Spectra
360. ICML 2025Diffusion on Language Model Encodings for Protein Sequence Generation
361. ICML 2025DistiLLM-2: A Contrastive Approach Boosts the Distillation of LLMs
362. ICML 2025DLP: Dynamic Layerwise Pruning in Large Language Models
363. ICML 2025DyCodeEval: Dynamic Benchmarking of Reasoning Capabilities in Code Large Language Models Under Data Contamination
364. ICML 2025Earley-Driven Dynamic Pruning for Efficient Structured Decoding
365. ICML 2025EditLord: Learning Code Transformation Rules for Code Editing
366. ICML 2025EffiCoder: Enhancing Code Generation in Large Language Models through Efficiency-Aware Fine-tuning
367. ICML 2025EpiCoder: Encompassing Diversity and Complexity in Code Generation
368. ICML 2025Fast Inference with Kronecker-Sparse Matrices
369. ICML 2025FreeMesh: Boosting Mesh Generation with Coordinates Merging
370. ICML 2025From Feature Interaction to Feature Generation: A Generative Paradigm of CTR Prediction Models
371. ICML 2025Function-to-Style Guidance of LLMs for Code Translation
372. ICML 2025Generation from Noisy Examples
373. ICML 2025Geometry Informed Tokenization of Molecules for Language Model Generation
374. ICML 2025GRAIL: Graph Edit Distance and Node Alignment using LLM-Generated Code
375. ICML 2025Gumiho: A Hybrid Architecture to Prioritize Early Tokens in Speculative Decoding
376. ICML 2025KernelBench: Can LLMs Write Efficient GPU Kernels?
377. ICML 2025LaMAGIC2: Advanced Circuit Formulations for Language Model-Based Analog Topology Generation
378. ICML 2025Language Models over Canonical Byte-Pair Encodings
379. ICML 2025LaRA: Benchmarking Retrieval-Augmented Generation and Long-Context LLMs – No Silver Bullet for LC or RAG Routing
380. ICML 2025Linear Mode Connectivity between Multiple Models modulo Permutation Symmetries
381. ICML 2025Logits are All We Need to Adapt Closed Models
382. ICML 2025Long-Form Speech Generation with Spoken Language Models
383. ICML 2025LoRA-Gen: Specializing Large Language Model via Online LoRA Generation
384. ICML 2025Matryoshka Quantization
385. ICML 2025Multi-Turn Code Generation Through Single-Step Rewards
386. ICML 2025Multimodal Medical Code Tokenizer
387. ICML 2025NextCoder: Robust Adaptation of Code LMs to Diverse Code Edits
388. ICML 2025NICE Data Selection for Instruction Tuning in LLMs with Non-differentiable Evaluation Metric
389. ICML 2025On Exact Bit-level Reversible Transformers Without Changing Architecture
390. ICML 2025On the Query Complexity of Verifier-Assisted Language Generation
391. ICML 2025Optimizing Language Models for Inference Time Objectives using Reinforcement Learning
392. ICML 2025Overcoming Non-monotonicity in Transducer-based Streaming Generation
393. ICML 2025polybasic Speculative Decoding Through a Theoretical Perspective
394. ICML 2025Position: Future Research and Challenges Remain Towards AI for Software Engineering
395. ICML 2025Prior Knowledge Guided Neural Architecture Generation
396. ICML 2025ProSec: Fortifying Code LLMs with Proactive Security Alignment
397. ICML 2025QuEST: Stable Training of LLMs with 1-Bit Weights and Activations
398. ICML 2025Reasoning Through Execution: Unifying Process and Outcome Rewards for Code Generation
399. ICML 2025Reasoning-as-Logic-Units: Scaling Test-Time Reasoning in Large Language Models Through Logic Unit Alignment
400. ICML 2025Representative Language 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.