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

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51. ICLR 2026SyncTrack: Rhythmic Stability and Synchronization in Multi-Track Music Generation
52. ICLR 2026TaskCraft: Automated Generation of Agentic Tasks
53. ICLR 2026Text2Arch: A Dataset for Generating Scientific Architecture Diagrams from Natural Language Descriptions
54. ICLR 2026Thinking with Camera: A Unified Multimodal Model for Camera-Centric Understanding and Generation
55. ICLR 2026Token-Based Audio Inpainting via Discrete Diffusion
56. ICLR 2026Topology of Reasoning: Retrieved Cell Complex-Augmented Generation for Textual Graph Question Answering
57. ICLR 2026Toward Complex-Valued Neural Networks for Waveform Generation
58. ICLR 2026UALM: Unified Audio Language Model for Understanding, Generation and Reasoning
59. ICLR 2026UniF$^2$ace: A $\underline{Uni}$fied $\underline{F}$ine-grained $\underline{Face}$ Understanding and Generation Model
60. ICLR 2026Unified Multi-Modal Interactive and Reactive 3D Motion Generation via Rectified Flow
61. ICLR 2026UniFlow: A Unified Pixel Flow Tokenizer for Visual Understanding and Generation
62. ICLR 2026Unveiling the Potential of Diffusion Large Language Model in Controllable Generation
63. ICLR 2026VibeVoice: Expressive Podcast Generation with Next-Token Diffusion
64. ICLR 2026YuE: Scaling Open Foundation Models for Long-Form Music Generation
65. ICLR 2025A Theory for Token-Level Harmonization in Retrieval-Augmented Generation
66. ICLR 2025Agents' Room: Narrative Generation through Multi-step Collaboration
67. ICLR 2025ARLON: Boosting Diffusion Transformers with Autoregressive Models for Long Video Generation
68. ICLR 2025Automated Proof Generation for Rust Code via Self-Evolution
69. ICLR 2025BirdSet: A Large-Scale Dataset for Audio Classification in Avian Bioacoustics
70. ICLR 2025Both Ears Wide Open: Towards Language-Driven Spatial Audio Generation
71. ICLR 2025Cached Multi-Lora Composition for Multi-Concept Image Generation
72. ICLR 2025Contrastive Learning from Synthetic Audio Doppelgängers
73. ICLR 2025CyberHost: A One-stage Diffusion Framework for Audio-driven Talking Body Generation
74. ICLR 2025Decoupling Layout from Glyph in Online Chinese Handwriting Generation
75. ICLR 2025Diff-2-in-1: Bridging Generation and Dense Perception with Diffusion Models
76. ICLR 2025Diversity-Rewarded CFG Distillation
77. ICLR 2025ECHOPulse: ECG Controlled Echocardio-gram Video Generation
78. ICLR 2025EcoFace: Audio-Visual Emotional Co-Disentanglement Speech-Driven 3D Talking Face Generation
79. ICLR 2025Hallo2: Long-Duration and High-Resolution Audio-Driven Portrait Image Animation
80. ICLR 2025Hydra-SGG: Hybrid Relation Assignment for One-stage Scene Graph Generation
81. ICLR 2025ImageFolder: Autoregressive Image Generation with Folded Tokens
82. ICLR 2025IPDreamer: Appearance-Controllable 3D Object Generation with Complex Image Prompts
83. ICLR 2025Loopy: Taming Audio-Driven Portrait Avatar with Long-Term Motion Dependency
84. ICLR 2025MDSGen: Fast and Efficient Masked Diffusion Temporal-Aware Transformers for Open-Domain Sound Generation
85. ICLR 2025MVTokenFlow: High-quality 4D Content Generation using Multiview Token Flow
86. ICLR 2025PeriodWave: Multi-Period Flow Matching for High-Fidelity Waveform Generation
87. ICLR 2025Personalized Representation from Personalized Generation
88. ICLR 2025PianoMotion10M: Dataset and Benchmark for Hand Motion Generation in Piano Performance
89. ICLR 2025Presto! Distilling Steps and Layers for Accelerating Music Generation
90. ICLR 2025Provence: efficient and robust context pruning for retrieval-augmented generation
91. ICLR 2025Ready-to-React: Online Reaction Policy for Two-Character Interaction Generation
92. ICLR 2025RFWave: Multi-band Rectified Flow for Audio Waveform Reconstruction
93. ICLR 2025SCOPE: A Self-supervised Framework for Improving Faithfulness in Conditional Text Generation
94. ICLR 2025SiReRAG: Indexing Similar and Related Information for Multihop Reasoning
95. ICLR 2025SoundCTM: Unifying Score-based and Consistency Models for Full-band Text-to-Sound Generation
96. ICLR 2025Sports-Traj: A Unified Trajectory Generation Model for Multi-Agent Movement in Sports
97. ICLR 2025SSLAM: Enhancing Self-Supervised Models with Audio Mixtures for Polyphonic Soundscapes
98. ICLR 2025TabDiff: a Mixed-type Diffusion Model for Tabular Data Generation
99. ICLR 2025Talking Turns: Benchmarking Audio Foundation Models on Turn-Taking Dynamics
100. ICLR 2025TANGO: Co-Speech Gesture Video Reenactment with Hierarchical Audio Motion Embedding and Diffusion Interpolation

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.