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

135 papers, page 3 of 3

101. ICLR 2025The KoLMogorov Test: Compression by Code Generation
102. ICLR 2025Training-free Camera Control for Video Generation
103. ICLR 2025UniWav: Towards Unified Pre-training for Speech Representation Learning and Generation
104. ICLR 2025ViSAGe: Video-to-Spatial Audio Generation
105. ICLR 2025VLMaterial: Procedural Material Generation with Large Vision-Language Models
106. ICLR 2025Weakly Supervised Video Scene Graph Generation via Natural Language Supervision
107. ICLR 2025X-NeMo: Expressive Neural Motion Reenactment via Disentangled Latent Attention
108. ICLR 2024Adaptive Self-training Framework for Fine-grained Scene Graph Generation
109. ICLR 2024AuG-KD: Anchor-Based Mixup Generation for Out-of-Domain Knowledge Distillation
110. ICLR 2024CoBIT: A Contrastive Bi-directional Image-Text Generation Model
111. ICLR 2024CodeChain: Towards Modular Code Generation Through Chain of Self-revisions with Representative Sub-modules
112. ICLR 2024Connect, Collapse, Corrupt: Learning Cross-Modal Tasks with Uni-Modal Data
113. ICLR 2024Davidsonian Scene Graph: Improving Reliability in Fine-grained Evaluation for Text-to-Image Generation
114. ICLR 2024EMO: EARTH MOVER DISTANCE OPTIMIZATION FOR AUTO-REGRESSIVE LANGUAGE MODELING
115. ICLR 2024Error Norm Truncation: Robust Training in the Presence of Data Noise for Text Generation Models
116. ICLR 2024FLD: Fourier Latent Dynamics for Structured Motion Representation and Learning
117. ICLR 2024Generative Human Motion Stylization in Latent Space
118. ICLR 2024Masked Audio Generation using a Single Non-Autoregressive Transformer
119. ICLR 2024MERT: Acoustic Music Understanding Model with Large-Scale Self-supervised Training
120. ICLR 2024Multi-Source Diffusion Models for Simultaneous Music Generation and Separation
121. ICLR 2024Retrieval is Accurate Generation
122. ICLR 2024Revisiting Deep Audio-Text Retrieval Through the Lens of Transportation
123. ICLR 2024SALMONN: Towards Generic Hearing Abilities for Large Language Models
124. ICLR 2024Self-RAG: Learning to Retrieve, Generate, and Critique through Self-Reflection
125. ICLR 2024Tailoring Self-Rationalizers with Multi-Reward Distillation
126. ICLR 2024Vocos: Closing the gap between time-domain and Fourier-based neural vocoders for high-quality audio synthesis
127. ICLR 2024Weakly-supervised Audio Separation via Bi-modal Semantic Similarity
128. ICLR 2024What does the Knowledge Neuron Thesis Have to do with Knowledge?
129. ICLR 2024Whole-Song Hierarchical Generation of Symbolic Music Using Cascaded Diffusion Models
130. ICLR 2023AudioGen: Textually Guided Audio Generation
131. ICLR 2023BigVGAN: A Universal Neural Vocoder with Large-Scale Training
132. ICLR 2023Discrete Contrastive Diffusion for Cross-Modal Music and Image Generation
133. ICLR 2023FIGARO: Controllable Music Generation using Learned and Expert Features
134. ICLR 2023GeneFace: Generalized and High-Fidelity Audio-Driven 3D Talking Face Synthesis
135. ICLR 2023wav2tok: Deep Sequence Tokenizer for Audio Retrieval

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.