Audio Generation papers, 2023–2026

Key findings

• Audio Generation went from 32 papers in 2023 to 136 in 2026, roughly 4.3x in three years.
• ICLR publishes the most Audio Generation work: 135 papers from 2023 to 2026, 38% of the four-venue total.
• The fastest-growing overlap is with Applications · computer vision: papers tagged with both rose from 0 in 2023 to 16 in 2026.
• Among the 5 topics under Audio and Speech, it ranks #3 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Audio-Visual Learning, is up 1.8x versus 4.3x here.

Representative papers

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• NeurIPS 2026A Unified Audio Language Model with Text-Aligned Factorized Audio Tokenization
• ICML 2026PHALAR: Phasors for Learned Musical Audio Representations
• ICLR 2026AC-Foley: Reference-Audio-Guided Video-to-Audio Synthesis with Acoustic Transfer
• CVPR 2026AudioStory Generating Long-Form Narrative Audio with Large Language Models
• NeurIPS 2025🎧MOSPA: Human Motion Generation Driven by Spatial Audio
• ICML 2025Audio Flamingo 2: An Audio-Language Model with Long-Audio Understanding and Expert Reasoning Abilities
• ICLR 2025ARLON: Boosting Diffusion Transformers with Autoregressive Models for Long Video Generation
• CVPR 2025AudCast: Audio-Driven Human Video Generation by Cascaded Diffusion Transformers
• NeurIPS 2024Vocal Call Locator Benchmark (VCL) for localizing rodent vocalizations from multi-channel audio
• ICML 2024An Independence-promoting Loss for Music Generation with Language Models
• ICLR 2024Error Norm Truncation: Robust Training in the Presence of Data Noise for Text Generation Models
• CVPR 2024FlowVQTalker: High-Quality Emotional Talking Face Generation through Normalizing Flow and Quantization
• NeurIPS 2023High-Fidelity Audio Compression with Improved RVQGAN
• ICML 2023Make-An-Audio: Text-To-Audio Generation with Prompt-Enhanced Diffusion Models
• ICLR 2023AudioGen: Textually Guided Audio Generation
• CVPR 2023Conditional Generation of Audio From Video via Foley Analogies
• NeurIPS 2026AudioCALM: Continuous Autoregressive Language Modeling for Universal Audio Generation
• ICML 2026SonicMaster: Towards Controllable All-in-One Music Restoration and Mastering
• ICLR 2026AudioX: A Unified Framework for Anything-to-Audio Generation
• CVPR 2026Avatar Forcing Real-Time Interactive Head Avatar Generation for Natural Conversation

All Audio Generation papers

357 papers, page 1 of 8

1. CVPR 2026Archon A Unified Multimodal Model for Holistic Digital Human Generation
2. CVPR 2026Audio-sync Video Instance Editing with Granularity-Aware Mask Refiner
3. CVPR 2026AudioStory Generating Long-Form Narrative Audio with Large Language Models
4. CVPR 2026Avatar Forcing Real-Time Interactive Head Avatar Generation for Natural Conversation
5. CVPR 2026Benchmarking Single-Factor Physical Video-to-Audio Generation
6. CVPR 2026Do You Have Freestyle Expressive Humanoid Locomotion via Audio Control
7. CVPR 2026Echoes Over Time Unlocking Length Generalization in Video-to-Audio Generation Models
8. CVPR 2026EchoFoley Event-Centric Hierarchical Control for Video Grounded Creative Sound Generation
9. CVPR 2026FoleyDesigner Immersive Stereo Foley Generation with Precise Spatio-Temporal Alignment for
10. CVPR 2026FoleyDirector Fine-Grained Temporal Steering for Video-to-Audio Generation via Structured Scripts
11. CVPR 2026Generate Analyze and Refine Training-Free Sound Source Localization via MLLM
12. CVPR 2026Harmonic Canvas Inversion-Free Editing for Visually-Guided Music Style Transfer
13. CVPR 2026Harmony Harmonizing Audio and Video Generation through Cross-Task Synergy
14. CVPR 2026Hear What Matters Text-conditioned Selective Video-to-Audio Generation
15. CVPR 2026Hear What You See Video-to-Audio Generation with Diffusion Transformer and
16. CVPR 2026LiveGesture Streamable Co-Speech Gesture Generation Model
17. CVPR 2026OmniSonic Towards Universal and Holistic Audio Generation from Video and
18. CVPR 2026PC-Talk Precise Facial Animation Control for Audio-Driven Talking Face Generation
19. CVPR 2026Real-Time Generation of Streamable Talking Portrait Video with Reference-Guided Deep
20. CVPR 2026SounDiT Geo-Contextual Soundscape-to-Landscape Generation
21. CVPR 2026SyncDreamer Controllable and Expressive Avatar Generation Beyond the Talking Head
22. CVPR 2026Talking Together Synthesizing Co-Located 3D Conversations from Audio
23. CVPR 2026UniAVGen Unified Audio and Video Generation with Asymmetric Cross-Modal Interactions
24. CVPR 2026UniLS End-to-End Audio-Driven Avatars for Unified Listening and Speaking
25. CVPR 2026Unlocking Strong Supervision A Data-Centric Study of General-Purpose Audio Pre-Training
26. CVPR 2026VABench A Comprehensive Benchmark for Audio-Video Generation
27. ICLR 20263D Scene Prompting for Scene-Consistent Camera-Controllable Video Generation
28. ICLR 2026AC-Foley: Reference-Audio-Guided Video-to-Audio Synthesis with Acoustic Transfer
29. ICLR 2026AQuA: Toward Strategic Response Generation for Ambiguous Visual Questions
30. ICLR 2026Arbitrary-Shaped Image Generation via Spherical Neural Field Diffusion
31. ICLR 2026AudioTrust: Benchmarking The Multifaceted Trustworthiness of Audio Large Language Models
32. ICLR 2026AudioX: A Unified Framework for Anything-to-Audio Generation
33. ICLR 2026Aurelius: Relation Aware Text-to-Audio Generation At Scale
34. ICLR 2026Captain Cinema: Towards Short Movie Generation
35. ICLR 2026CFT-RAG: An Entity Tree Based Retrieval Augmented Generation Algorithm With Cuckoo Filter
36. ICLR 2026CIAR: Interval-based Collaborative Decoding for Image Generation Acceleration
37. ICLR 2026CoDi: Subject-Consistent and Pose-Diverse Text-to-Image Generation
38. ICLR 2026Color3D: Controllable and Consistent 3D Colorization with Personalized Colorizer
39. ICLR 2026ContextGen: Contextual Layout Anchoring for Identity-Consistent Multi-Instance Generation
40. ICLR 2026Continuous Audio Language Models
41. ICLR 2026Deep Global-sense Hard-negative Discriminative Generation Hashing for Cross-modal Retrieval
42. ICLR 2026DVD-Quant: Data-free Video Diffusion Transformers Quantization
43. ICLR 2026Evolving Graph Structured Programs for Circuit Generation with Large Language Models
44. ICLR 2026FilMaster: Bridging Cinematic Principles and Generative AI for Automated Film Generation
45. ICLR 2026FlexiCodec: A Dynamic Neural Audio Codec for Low Frame Rates
46. ICLR 2026Flow2GAN: Hybrid Flow Matching and GAN with Multi-Resolution Network for One-/Two-step High-Fidelity Audio Generation
47. ICLR 2026From Verifiable Dot to Reward Chain: Harnessing Verifiable Reference-based Rewards for Reinforcement Learning of Open-ended Generation
48. ICLR 2026Generative Adversarial Post-Training Mitigates Reward Hacking in Live Human-AI Music Interaction
49. ICLR 2026InterActHuman: Multi-Concept Human Animation with Layout-Aligned Audio Conditions
50. ICLR 2026JALMBench: Benchmarking Jailbreak Vulnerabilities in Audio Language Models

FAQ

How many Audio Generation papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?

357 in total: 32 in 2023, 73 in 2024, 116 in 2025, 136 in 2026.

How many Audio Generation papers are at NeurIPS 2026?

NeurIPS 2026 has 21 Audio Generation papers, versus 32 the year before.

How many Audio Generation papers are at ICLR 2026?

ICLR 2026 has 64 Audio Generation papers, versus 43 the year before.

How many Audio Generation papers are at ICML 2026?

ICML 2026 has 25 Audio Generation papers, versus 10 the year before.

How many Audio Generation papers are at CVPR 2026?

CVPR 2026 has 26 Audio Generation papers, versus 31 the year before.

Which conference publishes the most Audio Generation papers?

ICLR, with 135 papers from 2023 to 2026.