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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1. NeurIPS 2026$\texttt{RNAGenScape}$: property-guided, optimized generation of mRNA sequences with manifold Langevin dynamics
2. NeurIPS 2026$SE(2)$-Aware Conditional Distribution Transport for Vehicle Trajectory Generation
3. NeurIPS 20263DCodeBench: Benchmarking Agentic Procedural 3D Modeling Via Code
4. NeurIPS 2026A Closer Look at Dynamic Scene Graph Generation in the Era of Multimodal Large Language Models
5. NeurIPS 2026A Stratified Multi-Rater Evaluation of LLM-Based Virtual Standardized Patients with a Deployed Data-Generation Platform
6. NeurIPS 2026A Theoretical Analysis of Test-Driven Code Generation
7. NeurIPS 2026A Theory of Time-Sensitive Language Generation: Sparse Hallucination Beats Mode Collapse
8. NeurIPS 2026AbSpecAlign: Specificity Reward Alignment for Antigen-Conditioned Antibody Generation
9. NeurIPS 2026AccelEval: A Whole-Program Benchmark for LLM-Generated CPU-to-GPU Code Acceleration
10. NeurIPS 2026AdaPCLA: Curriculum Prior Internalization For Long-Tailed Longitudinal EHR Generation
11. NeurIPS 2026AnalogToBi: Device-Level Analog Circuit Topology Generation via Bipartite Graph and Grammar Guided Decoding
12. NeurIPS 2026Anchoring LLM-based Chest X-ray Report Generation via Diffusion Language Planning
13. NeurIPS 2026Animation2Code: Evaluating Temporal Visual Reasoning in Video-to-Code Generation
14. NeurIPS 2026Answering At Any Cost: Frontier LLMs Are Consequence-Insensitive
15. NeurIPS 2026Antibody Generation via Redistributed Latent Diffusion
16. NeurIPS 2026APM: Evaluating Style Personalization in LLMs with Arbitrary Preference Mappings
17. NeurIPS 2026Articraft: An Agentic System for Scalable Articulated 3D Asset Generation
18. NeurIPS 2026Ask-E: An Environment for Calibrated Question Generation
19. NeurIPS 2026Assessing Sample Quality in Conditional Generation under Compositional Shift
20. NeurIPS 2026Benchmarking and Optimizing Multimodal Structured Generation: The OracleGraph Dataset and PRISM Framework
21. NeurIPS 2026Benchmarking Risk Attitudes of LLMs
22. NeurIPS 2026Beyond Empirical Support: Structured Outlier Generation via Sinkhorn Optimal Transport
23. NeurIPS 2026Beyond Flat Walks: Compositional Abstraction for Autoregressive Graph Generation
24. NeurIPS 2026Beyond Generation: Unlocking Discriminative Representations from Diffusion Models
25. NeurIPS 2026Beyond the Dirac Delta: Mitigating Diversity Collapse in Reinforcement Fine-Tuning for Image Generation
26. NeurIPS 2026Breaking the Quality–Privacy Tradeoff in Tabular Data Generation via In-Context Learning
27. NeurIPS 2026BrickAnything: Geometry-Conditioned Buildable Brick Generation with Structure-Aware Tokenization
28. NeurIPS 2026Bridging Diffusion and Autoregression for Flexible Time Series Synthesis
29. NeurIPS 2026Can Bits Seal Language?
30. NeurIPS 2026Can LLMs Take Retrieved Information with a Grain of Salt?
31. NeurIPS 2026CASL-VAE: Learning Structured Latent Variables from Unpaired Data for Semi-supervised Clustering and Paired Sample Generation
32. NeurIPS 2026ChronosAlign: A Large-Scale, Updatable Benchmark for Decomposing Temporal Alignment in LLMs
33. NeurIPS 2026CME–SpectrumBench: Can LLMs Analyze Condensed Matter Spectral Data?
34. NeurIPS 2026CodeScaler: Scaling Code LLM Training and Test-Time Inference via Reward Models
35. NeurIPS 2026CogBench: Evaluating Cognitive-Level Control in LLM Question Generation
36. NeurIPS 2026CoilStellaration: A Dataset and Benchmark for Engineering-Aware Stellarator Coilset Generation
37. NeurIPS 2026Conflict-Suppressed RAG: A Simple Decoding-Time Framework for Faithful Retrieval-Augmented Generation
38. NeurIPS 2026ConQuR: Corner Aligned Activation Quantization via Optimized Rotations for LLMs
39. NeurIPS 2026Constrained Goal-directed Planar Graph Generation with Grammar-based Reinforcement Learning
40. NeurIPS 2026Continuous Latent Diffusion Language Model
41. NeurIPS 2026Contrastive Identification and Generation in the Limit
42. NeurIPS 2026Contrastive Thinking Decoding: Steering Answer Generation in Reasoning Models
43. NeurIPS 2026Coreset-Induced Conditional Velocity Flow Matching
44. NeurIPS 2026Corrective Diffusion Language Models
45. NeurIPS 2026Correpondence Alignment For Improved Virtual Try-On
46. NeurIPS 2026Coupling Models for One-Step Discrete Generation
47. NeurIPS 2026CRISP: Fixing Flying Pixels in Latent LiDAR Generation via Diffusion Decoding
48. NeurIPS 2026CryptanalysisBench: Can LLMs do cryptanalysis?
49. NeurIPS 2026Curriculum proof repair with learned counterexamples
50. NeurIPS 2026CyCLeGen: Cycle-Consistent Layout Prediction and Image 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.