Audio Generation papers, 2023–2026
Music and sound generation
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 357 papers are tagged with this topic.
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.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 17 | 32 |
| 2024 | 18 | 22 | 16 | 17 | 73 |
| 2025 | 32 | 43 | 10 | 31 | 116 |
| 2026 | 21 | 64 | 25 | 26 | 136 |
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
136 papers, page 3 of 3
- ICML 2026MusicDET: Zero-Shot AI-Generated Music Detection
- ICML 2026PHALAR: Phasors for Learned Musical Audio Representations
- ICML 2026PhaseCoder: Microphone Geometry-Agnostic Spatial Audio Understanding for Multimodal LLMs
- ICML 2026Polyphonia: Zero-Shot Timbre Transfer in Polyphonic Music with Acoustic-Informed Attention Calibration
- ICML 2026SAM Audio: Segment Anything in Audio
- ICML 2026Scaling Transformers for End-to-End Discrete Audio Tokenization
- ICML 2026SONAR: Spectral‑Contrastive Audio Residuals for Generalizable Deepfake Detection
- ICML 2026SonicMaster: Towards Controllable All-in-One Music Restoration and Mastering
- ICML 2026SPEAR: A Unified SSL Framework for Learning Speech and Audio Representations
- ICML 2026Spherical Procrustes Alignment for Reliable Medical Audio Diagnosis
- ICML 2026STAR-VAE: Structured Topology-Aware Regularization for Audio Reconstruction and Generation
- ICML 2026T2AV-Compass: Towards Unified Evaluation for Text-to-Audio-Video Generation
- ICML 2026TMD-Bench: A Multi-Level Evaluation Paradigm for Music–Dance Co-Generation
- ICML 2026Towards Streaming Synchronized Spatial Audio Generation via Autoregressive Diffusion Transformer
- ICML 2026Two-dimensional quantization for geometry-aware audio coding
- NeurIPS 2026A Unified Audio Language Model with Text-Aligned Factorized Audio Tokenization
- NeurIPS 2026ANCHOR: Audio-Visually Grounded Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Benchmark
- NeurIPS 2026Asymmetric Phase Coding Audio Watermarking
- NeurIPS 2026Audible World Models: Spatially Aware Sound Generation for 3D Worlds
- NeurIPS 2026AudioCALM: Continuous Autoregressive Language Modeling for Universal Audio Generation
- NeurIPS 2026Continuous Audio Thinking for Large Audio Language Models
- NeurIPS 2026FlexCover: Flexible Cover Song Generation via Symbolic Lead Sheet Control
- NeurIPS 2026Generating the Unheard: Phylogeny-Guided Latent Generation for Ancestral Sound Reconstruction
- NeurIPS 2026MAEB: Massive Audio Embedding Benchmark
- NeurIPS 2026MFlowAudio: Efficient Text-to-Audio Synthesis via Mamba-based Stateful Flow Matching
- NeurIPS 2026Native Audio-Visual Alignment for Generation
- NeurIPS 2026PitchBench: Measuring Pitch Hearing in Audio-Language Models
- NeurIPS 2026RAIL: Rethinking Auditory Intelligence in Large Audio-Language Models with a CHC-Grounded Benchmark
- NeurIPS 2026Rubato: Transcribing Piano Music with Timestamps
- NeurIPS 2026RVCBench: Benchmarking Robustness of Voice Cloning Across Modern Audio Generation Models
- NeurIPS 2026SceneShifter: Training-free Multi-Scene Temporal Control for Audio-driven Human Animation
- NeurIPS 2026She Performs Your Voice: A Unified Speech and Dance Motion Model
- NeurIPS 2026StableAvatar: Ultra-Long Audio-Driven Avatar Video Generation
- NeurIPS 2026V2M-Zero: Zero-Pair Time-Aligned Video-to-Music Generation
- NeurIPS 2026VocalCoachBench: Benchmarking Audio-Language Models on Expert Feedback for Singing
- NeurIPS 2026WaveGen: Truly End-to-End Waveform Generation via Internal Spectral Trajectory Learning
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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.