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 4 of 8

151. CVPR 2025Learning to Highlight Audio by Watching Movies
152. CVPR 2025Let's Chorus: Partner-aware Hybrid Song-Driven 3D Head Animation
153. CVPR 2025MoEE: Mixture of Emotion Experts for Audio-Driven Portrait Animation
154. CVPR 2025Object-aware Sound Source Localization via Audio-Visual Scene Understanding
155. CVPR 2025OmniFlow: Any-to-Any Generation with Multi-Modal Rectified Flows
156. CVPR 2025Revisiting Audio-Visual Segmentation with Vision-Centric Transformer
157. CVPR 2025Seeing Speech and Sound: Distinguishing and Locating Audio Sources in Visual Scenes
158. CVPR 2025Silence is Golden: Leveraging Adversarial Examples to Nullify Audio Control in LDM-based Talking-Head Generation
159. CVPR 2025Sonic: Shifting Focus to Global Audio Perception in Portrait Animation
160. CVPR 2025Sound Bridge: Associating Egocentric and Exocentric Videos via Audio Cues
161. CVPR 2025Supervising Sound Localization by In-the-wild Egomotion
162. CVPR 2025Synchronized Video-to-Audio Generation via Mel Quantization-Continuum Decomposition
163. CVPR 2025Teller: Real-Time Streaming Audio-Driven Portrait Animation with Autoregressive Motion Generation
164. CVPR 2025Video-Guided Foley Sound Generation with Multimodal Controls
165. CVPR 2025VidMuse: A Simple Video-to-Music Generation Framework with Long-Short-Term Modeling
166. CVPR 2025VinTAGe: Joint Video and Text Conditioning for Holistic Audio Generation
167. CVPR 2025Wav2Sem: Plug-and-Play Audio Semantic Decoupling for 3D Speech-Driven Facial Animation
168. ICLR 2025A Theory for Token-Level Harmonization in Retrieval-Augmented Generation
169. ICLR 2025Agents' Room: Narrative Generation through Multi-step Collaboration
170. ICLR 2025ARLON: Boosting Diffusion Transformers with Autoregressive Models for Long Video Generation
171. ICLR 2025Automated Proof Generation for Rust Code via Self-Evolution
172. ICLR 2025BirdSet: A Large-Scale Dataset for Audio Classification in Avian Bioacoustics
173. ICLR 2025Both Ears Wide Open: Towards Language-Driven Spatial Audio Generation
174. ICLR 2025Cached Multi-Lora Composition for Multi-Concept Image Generation
175. ICLR 2025Contrastive Learning from Synthetic Audio Doppelgängers
176. ICLR 2025CyberHost: A One-stage Diffusion Framework for Audio-driven Talking Body Generation
177. ICLR 2025Decoupling Layout from Glyph in Online Chinese Handwriting Generation
178. ICLR 2025Diff-2-in-1: Bridging Generation and Dense Perception with Diffusion Models
179. ICLR 2025Diversity-Rewarded CFG Distillation
180. ICLR 2025ECHOPulse: ECG Controlled Echocardio-gram Video Generation
181. ICLR 2025EcoFace: Audio-Visual Emotional Co-Disentanglement Speech-Driven 3D Talking Face Generation
182. ICLR 2025Hallo2: Long-Duration and High-Resolution Audio-Driven Portrait Image Animation
183. ICLR 2025Hydra-SGG: Hybrid Relation Assignment for One-stage Scene Graph Generation
184. ICLR 2025ImageFolder: Autoregressive Image Generation with Folded Tokens
185. ICLR 2025IPDreamer: Appearance-Controllable 3D Object Generation with Complex Image Prompts
186. ICLR 2025Loopy: Taming Audio-Driven Portrait Avatar with Long-Term Motion Dependency
187. ICLR 2025MDSGen: Fast and Efficient Masked Diffusion Temporal-Aware Transformers for Open-Domain Sound Generation
188. ICLR 2025MVTokenFlow: High-quality 4D Content Generation using Multiview Token Flow
189. ICLR 2025PeriodWave: Multi-Period Flow Matching for High-Fidelity Waveform Generation
190. ICLR 2025Personalized Representation from Personalized Generation
191. ICLR 2025PianoMotion10M: Dataset and Benchmark for Hand Motion Generation in Piano Performance
192. ICLR 2025Presto! Distilling Steps and Layers for Accelerating Music Generation
193. ICLR 2025Provence: efficient and robust context pruning for retrieval-augmented generation
194. ICLR 2025Ready-to-React: Online Reaction Policy for Two-Character Interaction Generation
195. ICLR 2025RFWave: Multi-band Rectified Flow for Audio Waveform Reconstruction
196. ICLR 2025SCOPE: A Self-supervised Framework for Improving Faithfulness in Conditional Text Generation
197. ICLR 2025SiReRAG: Indexing Similar and Related Information for Multihop Reasoning
198. ICLR 2025SoundCTM: Unifying Score-based and Consistency Models for Full-band Text-to-Sound Generation
199. ICLR 2025Sports-Traj: A Unified Trajectory Generation Model for Multi-Agent Movement in Sports
200. ICLR 2025SSLAM: Enhancing Self-Supervised Models with Audio Mixtures for Polyphonic Soundscapes

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.