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 2 of 8

51. ICLR 2026JavisDiT++: Unified Modeling and Optimization for Joint Audio-Video Generation
52. ICLR 2026Latent Fourier Transform
53. ICLR 2026Learning Self-Critiquing Mechanisms for Region-Guided Chest X-Ray Report Generation
54. ICLR 2026LinearRAG: Linear Graph Retrieval Augmented Generation on Large-scale Corpora
55. ICLR 2026LLM2Fx-Tools: Tool Calling for Music Post-Production
56. ICLR 2026LumiTex: Towards High-Fidelity PBR Texture Generation with Illumination Context
57. ICLR 2026MAPSS: Manifold-based Assessment of Perceptual Source Separation
58. ICLR 2026MIMIC: Mask-Injected Manipulation Video Generation with Interaction Control
59. ICLR 2026Mixture of Contexts for Long Video Generation
60. ICLR 2026Motion-Aligned Word Embeddings for Text-to-Motion Generation
61. ICLR 2026P2P: Automated Paper-to-Poster Generation and Fine-Grained Benchmark
62. ICLR 2026PACE: Pretrained Audio Continual Learning
63. ICLR 2026Paper2Code: Automating Code Generation from Scientific Papers in Machine Learning
64. ICLR 2026Plan then Act: Bi-level CAD Command Sequence Generation
65. ICLR 2026Preserving Forgery Artifacts: AI-Generated Video Detection at Native Scale
66. ICLR 2026QuadGPT: Native Quadrilateral Mesh Generation with Autoregressive Models
67. ICLR 2026QuantSparse: Comprehensively Compressing Video Diffusion Transformer with Model Quantization and Attention Sparsification
68. ICLR 2026ReactDance: Hierarchical Representation for High-Fidelity and Coherent Long-Form Reactive Dance Generation
69. ICLR 2026ReconViaGen: Towards Accurate Multi-view 3D Object Reconstruction via Generation
70. ICLR 2026Rethinking Radiology Report Generation: From Narrative Flow to Topic-Guided Findings
71. ICLR 2026ROGA: Scaling Generalist Agents for Office Productivity Tasks via Tool Generation
72. ICLR 2026SatDreamer360: Multiview-Consistent Generation of Ground-Level Scenes from Satellite Imagery
73. ICLR 2026SceneTransporter: Optimal Transport-Guided Compositional Latent Diffusion for Single-Image Structured 3D Scene Generation
74. ICLR 2026SongEcho: Towards Cover Song Generation via Instance-Adaptive Element-wise Linear Modulation
75. ICLR 2026Steering Autoregressive Music Generation with Recursive Feature Machines
76. ICLR 2026Syncphony: Synchronized Audio-to-Video Generation with Diffusion Transformers
77. ICLR 2026SyncTrack: Rhythmic Stability and Synchronization in Multi-Track Music Generation
78. ICLR 2026TaskCraft: Automated Generation of Agentic Tasks
79. ICLR 2026Text2Arch: A Dataset for Generating Scientific Architecture Diagrams from Natural Language Descriptions
80. ICLR 2026Thinking with Camera: A Unified Multimodal Model for Camera-Centric Understanding and Generation
81. ICLR 2026Token-Based Audio Inpainting via Discrete Diffusion
82. ICLR 2026Topology of Reasoning: Retrieved Cell Complex-Augmented Generation for Textual Graph Question Answering
83. ICLR 2026Toward Complex-Valued Neural Networks for Waveform Generation
84. ICLR 2026UALM: Unified Audio Language Model for Understanding, Generation and Reasoning
85. ICLR 2026UniF$^2$ace: A $\underline{Uni}$fied $\underline{F}$ine-grained $\underline{Face}$ Understanding and Generation Model
86. ICLR 2026Unified Multi-Modal Interactive and Reactive 3D Motion Generation via Rectified Flow
87. ICLR 2026UniFlow: A Unified Pixel Flow Tokenizer for Visual Understanding and Generation
88. ICLR 2026Unveiling the Potential of Diffusion Large Language Model in Controllable Generation
89. ICLR 2026VibeVoice: Expressive Podcast Generation with Next-Token Diffusion
90. ICLR 2026YuE: Scaling Open Foundation Models for Long-Form Music Generation
91. ICML 2026AudioChat: Unified Audio Storytelling, Editing, and Understanding with Transfusion Forcing
92. ICML 2026AudioMosaic: Contrastive Masked Audio Representation Learning
93. ICML 2026BAT: Better Audio Transformer Guided by Convex Gated Probing
94. ICML 2026BEAT: Tokenizing and Generating Symbolic Music by Uniform Temporal Steps
95. ICML 2026Bridging Your Imagination with Audio-Video Generation via a Unified Director
96. ICML 2026CMI-RewardBench: Evaluating Music Reward Models with Compositional Multimodal Instruction
97. ICML 2026DiscoForcing: A Unified Framework for Real-Time Audio-Driven Character Control with Diffusion Forcing
98. ICML 2026DreamID-Omni: Unified Framework for Controllable Human-Centric Audio-Video Generation
99. ICML 2026Learning Tight Rejection Boundaries without Negatives for Strict One-Class Audio Deepfake Detection
100. ICML 2026LLM-Guided Loop Bound Generation for Program Termination Verification

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.