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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401. NeurIPS 2025Reasoning Path Compression: Compressing Generation Trajectories for Efficient LLM Reasoning
402. NeurIPS 2025Reduction-based Pseudo-label Generation for Instance-dependent Partial Label Learning
403. NeurIPS 2025Reliable Decision‑Making via Calibration‑Oriented Retrieval‑Augmented Generation
404. NeurIPS 2025RepLDM: Reprogramming Pretrained Latent Diffusion Models for High-Quality, High-Efficiency, High-Resolution Image Generation
405. NeurIPS 2025Repo2Run: Automated Building Executable Environment for Code Repository at Scale
406. NeurIPS 2025Representation Entanglement for Generation: Training Diffusion Transformers Is Much Easier Than You Think
407. NeurIPS 2025ResearchCodeBench: Benchmarking LLMs on Implementing Novel Machine Learning Research Code
408. NeurIPS 2025Rethinking Verification for LLM Code Generation: From Generation to Testing
409. NeurIPS 2025Retrieval is Not Enough: Enhancing RAG through Test-Time Critique and Optimization
410. NeurIPS 2025RoomEditor: High-Fidelity Furniture Synthesis with Parameter-Sharing U-Net
411. NeurIPS 2025rStar-Coder: Scaling Competitive Code Reasoning with a Large-Scale Verified Dataset
412. NeurIPS 2025Safety Pretraining: Toward the Next Generation of Safe AI
413. NeurIPS 2025Sample and Map from a Single Convex Potential: Generation using Conjugate Moment Measures
414. NeurIPS 2025Scaling Code-Assisted Chain-of-Thoughts and Instructions for Model Reasoning
415. NeurIPS 2025Scaling Diffusion Transformers Efficiently via $\mu$P
416. NeurIPS 2025Scaling Up Parameter Generation: A Recurrent Diffusion Approach
417. NeurIPS 2025SceneDecorator: Towards Scene-Oriented Story Generation with Scene Planning and Scene Consistency
418. NeurIPS 2025SECODEPLT: A Unified Benchmark for Evaluating the Security Risks and Capabilities of Code GenAI
419. NeurIPS 2025SeCon-RAG: A Two-Stage Semantic Filtering and Conflict-Free Framework for Trustworthy RAG
420. NeurIPS 2025Self-Evolving Pseudo-Rehearsal for Catastrophic Forgetting with Task Similarity in LLMs
421. NeurIPS 2025SemCoT: Accelerating Chain-of-Thought Reasoning through Semantically-Aligned Implicit Tokens
422. NeurIPS 2025ShortListing Model: A Streamlined Simplex Diffusion for Discrete Variable Generation
423. NeurIPS 2025SimpleStrat: Diversifying Language Model Generation with Stratification
424. NeurIPS 2025SnapMoGen: Human Motion Generation from Expressive Texts
425. NeurIPS 2025Sparse Image Synthesis via Joint Latent and RoI Flow
426. NeurIPS 2025Sparse VideoGen2: Accelerate Video Generation with Sparse Attention via Semantic-Aware Permutation
427. NeurIPS 2025SpecMER: Fast Protein Generation with K-mer Guided Speculative Decoding
428. NeurIPS 2025Spotlight Attention: Towards Efficient LLM Generation via Non-linear Hashing-based KV Cache Retrieval
429. NeurIPS 2025Steering When Necessary: Flexible Steering Large Language Models with Backtracking
430. NeurIPS 2025Struct-Bench: A Benchmark for Differentially Private Structured Text Generation
431. NeurIPS 2025SymRTLO: Enhancing RTL Code Optimization with LLMs and Neuron-Inspired Symbolic Reasoning
432. NeurIPS 2025SynBrain: Enhancing Visual-to-fMRI Synthesis via Probabilistic Representation Learning
433. NeurIPS 2025Synthesizing Performance Constraints for Evaluating and Improving Code Efficiency
434. NeurIPS 2025Synthetic Series-Symbol Data Generation for Time Series Foundation Models
435. NeurIPS 2025Table2LaTeX-RL: High-Fidelity LaTeX Code Generation from Table Images via Reinforced Multimodal Language Models
436. NeurIPS 2025TEMPO: Temporal Multi-scale Autoregressive Generation of Protein Conformational Ensembles
437. NeurIPS 2025Text-to-Code Generation for Modular Building Layouts in Building Information Modeling
438. NeurIPS 2025The Automated LLM Speedrunning Benchmark: Reproducing NanoGPT Improvements
439. NeurIPS 2025The Curse of Depth in Large Language Models
440. NeurIPS 2025Top-H Decoding: Adapting the Creativity and Coherence with Bounded Entropy in Text Generation
441. NeurIPS 2025Tortoise and Hare Guidance: Accelerating Diffusion Model Inference with Multirate Integration
442. NeurIPS 2025Towards A Generalist Code Embedding Model Based On Massive Data Synthesis
443. NeurIPS 2025Towards Better & Faster Autoregressive Image Generation: From the Perspective of Entropy
444. NeurIPS 2025Towards Reliable Code-as-Policies: A Neuro-Symbolic Framework for Embodied Task Planning
445. NeurIPS 2025Track, Inpaint, Resplat: Subject-driven 3D and 4D Generation with Progressive Texture Infilling
446. NeurIPS 2025Training Language Models to Generate Quality Code with Program Analysis Feedback
447. NeurIPS 2025Training-Free Constrained Generation With Stable Diffusion Models
448. NeurIPS 2025Transforming Generic Coder LLMs to Effective Binary Code Embedding Models for Similarity Detection
449. NeurIPS 2025TreeSynth: Synthesizing Diverse Data from Scratch via Tree-Guided Subspace Partitioning
450. NeurIPS 2025Understanding and Mitigating Numerical Sources of Nondeterminism in LLM Inference

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.