Code Generation papers, 2023–2026
Program synthesis and code LLMs
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 2,161 papers are tagged with this topic.
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.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 29 | 55 | 31 | 95 | 210 |
| 2024 | 135 | 66 | 111 | 134 | 446 |
| 2025 | 230 | 164 | 79 | 172 | 645 |
| 2026 | 236 | 241 | 174 | 209 | 860 |
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
209 papers, page 1 of 5
- CVPR 20263D-Fixer Coarse-to-Fine In-place Completion for 3D Scenes from a Single
- CVPR 2026A Style is Worth One Code Unlocking Code-to-Style Image Generation
- CVPR 2026A Training-Free Style-Personalization via SVD-Based Feature Decomposition
- CVPR 2026Accelerating Diffusion via Hybrid Data-Pipeline Parallelism Based on Conditional Guidance
- CVPR 2026ACPV-Net All-Class Polygonal Vectorization for Seamless Vector Map Generation from
- CVPR 2026ActionMesh Animated 3D Mesh Generation with Temporal 3D Diffusion
- CVPR 2026Animator-Centric Skeleton Generation on Objects with Fine-Grained Details
- CVPR 2026AnyDoc Enhancing Document Generation via Large-Scale HTMLCSS Data Synthesis and
- CVPR 2026ARGUS Defending Against Multimodal Indirect Prompt Injection via Steering Instruction-Following
- CVPR 2026ARMFlow AutoRegressive MeanFlow for Online 3D Human Reaction Generation
- CVPR 2026AutoRegressive Generation with B-rep Holistic Token Sequence Representation
- CVPR 2026Beyond Pixel Simulation Pathology Image Generation via Diagnostic Semantic Tokens
- CVPR 2026Bidirectional Query-Driven Generation of Parametric CAD Sketch
- CVPR 2026BiGain Unified Token Compression for Joint Generation and Classification
- CVPR 2026BiMotion B-spline Motion for Text-guided Dynamic 3D Character Generation
- CVPR 2026Breaking the 3D Dataset Bottleneck Fast Scalable Generation of Aligned
- CVPR 2026Bridging Privacy and Provenance Traceable Virtual Identity Generation
- CVPR 2026CAD-Refiner A Unified Framework for CAD Generation and Iterative Editing
- CVPR 2026CaliTex Geometry-Calibrated Attention for View-Coherent 3D Texture Generation
- CVPR 2026Causal Motion Diffusion Models for Autoregressive Motion Generation
- CVPR 2026CG-Floor Centroid-Guided Diffusion for Large-Scale Floorplan Generation
- CVPR 2026ChangeBridge Spatiotemporal Image Generation with Multimodal Controls for Remote Senisng
- CVPR 2026Circuit Mechanisms for Spatial Relation Generation in Diffusion Transformers
- CVPR 2026Cloning Deterministic Worlds The Critical Role of Latent Geometry in
- CVPR 2026CodeMMR Bridging Natural Language Code and Image for Unified Retrieval
- CVPR 2026CodePercept Code-Grounded Visual STEM Perception for MLLMs
- CVPR 2026CoLoGen Progressive Learning of Concept-Localization Duality for Unified Image Generation
- CVPR 2026Cross-Domain Demo-to-Code via Neurosymbolic Counterfactual Reasoning
- CVPR 2026Cubic Discrete Diffusion Discrete Visual Generation on High-Dimensional Representation Tokens
- CVPR 2026Decision Boundary-aware Generation for Long-tailed Learning
- CVPR 2026DeCo Frequency-Decoupled Pixel Diffusion for End-to-End Image Generation
- CVPR 2026Dehallu3D Hallucination-Mitigated 3D Generation from a Single Image via Cyclic
- CVPR 2026Denoising Fast and Slow Difficulty-Aware Adaptive Sampling for Image Generation
- CVPR 2026Design Your Ad Personalized Advertising Image and Text Generation with
- CVPR 2026DextER Language-driven Dexterous Grasp Generation with Embodied Reasoning
- CVPR 2026Diffusion with a Linguistic Compass Steering the Generation of Clinically
- CVPR 2026Diffusion-Based sRGB Real Noise Generation via Prompt-Driven Noise Representation Learning
- CVPR 2026DiP Taming Diffusion Models in Pixel Space
- CVPR 2026DiT360 High-Fidelity Panoramic Image Generation via Hybrid Training
- CVPR 2026Diverse Video Generation with Determinantal Point Process-Guided Policy Optimization
- CVPR 2026DiverseDiT Towards Diverse Representation Learning in Diffusion Transformers
- CVPR 2026DMAligner Enhancing Image Alignment via Diffusion Model Based View Synthesis
- CVPR 2026Do You See What I Am Pointing At Gesture-Based Egocentric
- CVPR 2026DPAR Dynamic Patchification for Efficient Autoregressive Visual Generation
- CVPR 2026DSFlash Comprehensive Panoptic Scene Graph Generation in Realtime
- CVPR 2026Dual-Level Hypergraph Generation for Addressing Feature Scarcity in Whole-Slide Image
- CVPR 2026DuoGen Towards Autonomous Interleaved Multimodal Generation
- CVPR 2026Endless World Real-Time 3D-Aware Long Video Generation
- CVPR 2026Evidential Neural Radiance Fields
- CVPR 2026Explaining Object Detectors via Collective Contribution of Pixels
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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.