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

31 papers, page 1 of 1

1. ICML 2023Autoregressive Diffusion Model for Graph Generation
2. ICML 2023Can Large Language Models Reason about Program Invariants?
3. ICML 2023CodeIPPrompt: Intellectual Property Infringement Assessment of Code Language Models
4. ICML 2023Coder Reviewer Reranking for Code Generation
5. ICML 2023CRISP: Curriculum based Sequential neural decoders for Polar code family
6. ICML 2023Dirichlet Diffusion Score Model for Biological Sequence Generation
7. ICML 2023DS-1000: A Natural and Reliable Benchmark for Data Science Code Generation
8. ICML 2023Exploring Chemical Space with Score-based Out-of-distribution Generation
9. ICML 2023Extrapolative Controlled Sequence Generation via Iterative Refinement
10. ICML 2023FlexGen: High-Throughput Generative Inference of Large Language Models with a Single GPU
11. ICML 2023Geometric Latent Diffusion Models for 3D Molecule Generation
12. ICML 2023Hierarchical Neural Coding for Controllable CAD Model Generation
13. ICML 2023How Does Information Bottleneck Help Deep Learning?
14. ICML 2023Image generation with shortest path diffusion
15. ICML 2023LEVER: Learning to Verify Language-to-Code Generation with Execution
16. ICML 2023Measuring the Impact of Programming Language Distribution
17. ICML 2023Model-based Offline Reinforcement Learning with Count-based Conservatism
18. ICML 2023MolDiff: Addressing the Atom-Bond Inconsistency Problem in 3D Molecule Diffusion Generation
19. ICML 2023OpenFE: Automated Feature Generation with Expert-level Performance
20. ICML 2023Outline, Then Details: Syntactically Guided Coarse-To-Fine Code Generation
21. ICML 2023PAL: Program-aided Language Models
22. ICML 2023Probabilistic Concept Bottleneck Models
23. ICML 2023Protecting Language Generation Models via Invisible Watermarking
24. ICML 2023R-U-SURE? Uncertainty-Aware Code Suggestions By Maximizing Utility Across Random User Intents
25. ICML 2023Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Compositional Generation with Energy-Based Diffusion Models and MCMC
26. ICML 2023Repository-Level Prompt Generation for Large Language Models of Code
27. ICML 2023Semi-Autoregressive Energy Flows: Exploring Likelihood-Free Training of Normalizing Flows
28. ICML 2023Slot-VAE: Object-Centric Scene Generation with Slot Attention
29. ICML 2023Text Generation with Diffusion Language Models: A Pre-training Approach with Continuous Paragraph Denoise
30. ICML 2023TR0N: Translator Networks for 0-Shot Plug-and-Play Conditional Generation
31. 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.