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

174 papers, page 1 of 4

1. ICML 2026$A_2$DEPT: Large Language Model–Driven Automated Algorithm Design via Evolutionary Program Trees
2. ICML 2026A Flat Vocabulary or a Rich Hierarchy? Re-introducing Intrinsic Structure Transforms the Autoregressive Image Generation
3. ICML 2026ABSINT-AI: Agentic Heap Abstractions for Abstract Interpretation
4. ICML 2026Adaptive Code Watermarking Through Reinforcement Learning
5. ICML 2026Adaptive Generation of Bias-Eliciting Questions for LLMs
6. ICML 2026AdverMCTS: Combating Pseudo-Correctness in Code Generation via Adversarial Monte Carlo Tree Search
7. ICML 2026Agent JIT Compilation for Latency-Optimizing Web Agent Planning and Scheduling
8. ICML 2026AgentConductor: Topology Evolution for Multi-Agent Competition-Level Code Generation
9. ICML 2026AlgoVeri: An Aligned Benchmark for Verified Code Generation on Classical Algorithms
10. ICML 2026Anchoring Self-Play for Code Repair
11. ICML 2026Antidistillation Fingerprinting
12. ICML 2026Attention Projection Mixing with Exogenous Anchors
13. ICML 2026AugMask: Training Diffusion Models on Incomplete Tabular Data via Stochastic Augmentation and Masking
14. ICML 2026AutoBaxBuilder: Bootstrapping Code Security Benchmarking
15. ICML 2026Autoregressive, Yet Revisable: In Decoding Revision for Secure Code Generation
16. ICML 2026Balancing Fidelity and Diversity in Diffusion Models via Symmetric Attention Decomposition: Hopfield Perspective
17. ICML 2026Benchmarking Reward Hack Detection in Code Environments via Contrastive Analysis
18. ICML 2026BEST: Benchmarking Efficiency in Space and Time for LLM-Generated Code
19. ICML 2026Beyond Problem Solving: UOJ-Bench for Evaluating Code Generation, Hacking, and Repair in Competitive Programming
20. ICML 2026Beyond Text-to-SQL: Can LLMs Really Debug Enterprise ETL SQL?
21. ICML 2026BiTrajDiff: Bidirectional Trajectory Generation with Diffusion Models for Offline Reinforcement Learning
22. ICML 2026BlueCodeAgent: A Blue Teaming Agent Powered by Automated Red Teaming for CodeGen AI
23. ICML 2026BOOSTAPR: Boosting Automated Program Repair via Execution-Grounded Reinforcement Learning with Dual Reward Models
24. ICML 2026Bridging Functional Correctness and Runtime Efficiency Gaps in LLM-Based Code Translation
25. ICML 2026Bridging Tokens and Geometry: Token-wise 3D Supervision for CAD Generation
26. ICML 2026Bringing Code ALIVE: Optimizing Interactive Frontend Mini-Games via Automated Play and Reinforcement Learning at Scale
27. ICML 2026CADFit: Precise Mesh-to-CAD Program Generation with Hybrid Optimization
28. ICML 2026Can LLMs Reason Like Automated Theorem Provers for Rust Verification? VCoT-Bench: Evaluating via Verification Chain of Thought
29. ICML 2026Can Recommender Systems Teach Themselves? A Recursive Self-Improving Framework with Fidelity Control
30. ICML 2026CATArena: Evaluating Evolutionary Capabilities of Code Agents via Iterative Tournaments
31. ICML 2026Causal Forcing: Autoregressive Diffusion Distillation Done Right for High-Quality Real-Time Interactive Video Generation
32. ICML 2026Characterizing the Effect of Noise in Language Generation in the Limit
33. ICML 2026CIRBench: Evaluating Large Language Models as LLVM IR Optimizers
34. ICML 2026Closing the Loop: Universal Repository Representation with RPG-Encoder
35. ICML 2026CoDA-Bench: Can Code Agents Handle Data-Intensive Tasks?
36. ICML 2026CodeChemist: Test-Time Scaling for Low-Resource Code Generation via Functional Knowledge Transfer
37. ICML 2026CodeTaste: Can LLMs Generate Human-Level Code Refactorings?
38. ICML 2026CoFrGeNet: Continued Fraction Architectures for Language Generation
39. ICML 2026Controllable Molecule Generation via Sparse Representation Editing: An Interpretability-Driven Perspective
40. ICML 2026ConTSG-Bench: A Unified Benchmark for Conditional Time Series Generation
41. ICML 2026CVE-Factory: Scaling Expert-Level Agentic Tasks for Code Security Vulnerability
42. ICML 2026Depth-Progressive Monotonic Learning without Global Backpropagation
43. ICML 2026Deterministic Component Mining for Multi-Framework UI2Code Generation
44. ICML 2026DFSAttn: Dynamic Fine-grained Sparse Attention for Efficient Video Generation
45. ICML 2026Diff-MN: Diffusion Parameterized MoE-NCDE for Continuous Time Series Generation with Irregular Observations
46. ICML 2026Dreaming in Code for Curriculum Learning in Open-Ended Worlds
47. ICML 2026DRIVE: Best Data Scheduling Practices for Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Reward in Competitive Code Generation
48. ICML 2026DRPBench: Evaluating LLMs in Concurrent Code Comprehension via Fine-Grained Data Race Prediction
49. ICML 2026ECA: Efficient Continual Alignment for Open-Ended Image-to-Text Generation
50. ICML 2026Efficient Code Analysis via Graph Representation Learning-Guided Large Language Models

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.