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

Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up

• 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

645 papers, page 9 of 13

401. ICML 2025Revisiting Chain-of-Thought in Code Generation: Do Language Models Need to Learn Reasoning before Coding?
402. ICML 2025Scalable Non-Equivariant 3D Molecule Generation via Rotational Alignment
403. ICML 2025Selective Prompt Anchoring for Code Generation
404. ICML 2025Self-Improving Language Models for Evolutionary Program Synthesis: A Case Study on ARC-AGI
405. ICML 2025SongGen: A Single Stage Auto-regressive Transformer for Text-to-Song Generation
406. ICML 2025SpeCache: Speculative Key-Value Caching for Efficient Generation of LLMs
407. ICML 2025Strategic Planning: A Top-Down Approach to Option Generation
408. ICML 2025Synthesizing Software Engineering Data in a Test-Driven Manner
409. ICML 2025The Diffusion Duality
410. ICML 2025Thinking LLMs: General Instruction Following with Thought Generation
411. ICML 2025TokenSwift: Lossless Acceleration of Ultra Long Sequence Generation
412. ICML 2025Towards Practical Defect-Focused Automated Code Review
413. ICML 2025Tractable Transformers for Flexible Conditional Generation
414. ICML 2025TransPL: VQ-Code Transition Matrices for Pseudo-Labeling of Time Series Unsupervised Domain Adaptation
415. ICML 2025Understanding Complexity in VideoQA via Visual Program Generation
416. NeurIPS 2025$\texttt{STRCMP}$: Integrating Graph Structural Priors with Language Models for Combinatorial Optimization
417. NeurIPS 2025AceSearcher: Bootstrapping Reasoning and Search for LLMs via Reinforced Self-Play
418. NeurIPS 2025Activation-Informed Merging of Large Language Models
419. NeurIPS 2025Adaptive 3D Reconstruction via Diffusion Priors and Forward Curvature-Matching Likelihood Updates
420. NeurIPS 2025Adaptive Discretization for Consistency Models
421. NeurIPS 2025Advanced Sign Language Video Generation with Compressed and Quantized Multi-Condition Tokenization
422. NeurIPS 2025AdvPrefix: An Objective for Nuanced LLM Jailbreaks
423. NeurIPS 2025Afterburner: Reinforcement Learning Facilitates Self-Improving Code Efficiency Optimization
424. NeurIPS 2025AI Research Agents for Machine Learning: Search, Exploration, and Generalization in MLE-bench
425. NeurIPS 2025AlignedGen: Aligning Style Across Generated Images
426. NeurIPS 2025AlphaDecay: Module-wise Weight Decay for Heavy-Tailed Balancing in LLMs
427. NeurIPS 2025ALTo: Adaptive-Length Tokenizer for Autoregressive Mask Generation
428. NeurIPS 2025AnimateQR: Bridging Aesthetics and Functionality in Dynamic QR Code Generation
429. NeurIPS 2025APML: Adaptive Probabilistic Matching Loss for Robust 3D Point Cloud Reconstruction
430. NeurIPS 2025Approximately Aligned Decoding
431. NeurIPS 2025AstroVisBench: A Code Benchmark for Scientific Computing and Visualization in Astronomy
432. NeurIPS 2025ATLAS: Autoformalizing Theorems through Lifting, Augmentation, and Synthesis of Data
433. NeurIPS 2025AutoPartGen: Autoregressive 3D Part Generation and Discovery
434. NeurIPS 2025BADiff: Bandwidth Adaptive Diffusion Model
435. NeurIPS 2025Benchmarking Large Language Models with Integer Sequence Generation Tasks
436. NeurIPS 2025Benford’s Curse: Tracing Digit Bias to Numerical Hallucination in LLMs
437. NeurIPS 2025Bi-Directional Communication-Efficient Stochastic FL via Remote Source Generation
438. NeurIPS 2025Bidirectional Motion Transformer for Safety-Critical Traffic Scenario Generation
439. NeurIPS 2025Bidirectional Representations Augmented Autoregressive Biological Sequence Generation: Application in De Novo Peptide Sequencing
440. NeurIPS 2025BIPNN: Learning to Solve Binary Integer Programming via Hypergraph Neural Networks
441. NeurIPS 2025Blockwise Flow Matching: Improving Flow Matching Models For Efficient High-Quality Generation
442. NeurIPS 2025BoltzNCE: Learning likelihoods for Boltzmann Generation with Stochastic Interpolants and Noise Contrastive Estimation
443. NeurIPS 2025Boosting Knowledge Utilization in Multimodal Large Language Models via Adaptive Logits Fusion and Attention Reallocation
444. NeurIPS 2025Brain network science modelling of sparse neural networks enables Transformers and LLMs to perform as fully connected
445. NeurIPS 2025Bridging Sign and Spoken Languages: Pseudo Gloss Generation for Sign Language Translation
446. NeurIPS 2025Can LLMs Correct Themselves? A Benchmark of Self-Correction in LLMs
447. NeurIPS 2025Classical Planning with LLM-Generated Heuristics: Challenging the State of the Art with Python Code
448. NeurIPS 2025CLEAR: Conv-Like Linearization Revs Pre-Trained Diffusion Transformers Up
449. NeurIPS 2025CLEVER: A Curated Benchmark for Formally Verified Code Generation
450. NeurIPS 2025CodeAssistBench (CAB): Dataset & Benchmarking for Multi-turn Chat-Based Code Assistance

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.