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
357 papers, page 5 of 8
- ICLR 2025TabDiff: a Mixed-type Diffusion Model for Tabular Data Generation
- ICLR 2025Talking Turns: Benchmarking Audio Foundation Models on Turn-Taking Dynamics
- ICLR 2025TANGO: Co-Speech Gesture Video Reenactment with Hierarchical Audio Motion Embedding and Diffusion Interpolation
- ICLR 2025The KoLMogorov Test: Compression by Code Generation
- ICLR 2025Training-free Camera Control for Video Generation
- ICLR 2025UniWav: Towards Unified Pre-training for Speech Representation Learning and Generation
- ICLR 2025ViSAGe: Video-to-Spatial Audio Generation
- ICLR 2025VLMaterial: Procedural Material Generation with Large Vision-Language Models
- ICLR 2025Weakly Supervised Video Scene Graph Generation via Natural Language Supervision
- ICLR 2025X-NeMo: Expressive Neural Motion Reenactment via Disentangled Latent Attention
- ICML 2025ALMTokenizer: A Low-bitrate and Semantic-rich Audio Codec Tokenizer for Audio Language Modeling
- ICML 2025Audio Flamingo 2: An Audio-Language Model with Long-Audio Understanding and Expert Reasoning Abilities
- ICML 2025CodeSync: Synchronizing Large Language Models with Dynamic Code Evolution at Scale
- ICML 2025Efficient Fine-Grained Guidance for Diffusion Model Based Symbolic Music Generation
- ICML 2025ETTA: Elucidating the Design Space of Text-to-Audio Models
- ICML 2025IMPACT: Iterative Mask-based Parallel Decoding for Text-to-Audio Generation with Diffusion Modeling
- ICML 2025MuseControlLite: Multifunctional Music Generation with Lightweight Conditioners
- ICML 2025OmniAudio: Generating Spatial Audio from 360-Degree Video
- ICML 2025Sounding that Object: Interactive Object-Aware Image to Audio Generation
- ICML 2025Supervised Contrastive Learning from Weakly-Labeled Audio Segments for Musical Version Matching
- NeurIPS 2025🎧MOSPA: Human Motion Generation Driven by Spatial Audio
- NeurIPS 2025AHa-Bench: Benchmarking Audio Hallucinations in Large Audio-Language Models
- NeurIPS 2025Audio Flamingo 3: Advancing Audio Intelligence with Fully Open Large Audio Language Models
- NeurIPS 2025Audio Super-Resolution with Latent Bridge Models
- NeurIPS 2025Audio-Sync Video Generation with Multi-Stream Temporal Control
- NeurIPS 2025AudSemThinker: Enhancing Audio-Language Models Through Reasoning over Semantics of Sound
- NeurIPS 2025BNMusic: Blending Environmental Noises into Personalized Music
- NeurIPS 2025BRACE: A Benchmark for Robust Audio Caption Quality Evaluation
- NeurIPS 2025DroneAudioset: An Audio Dataset for Drone-based Search and Rescue
- NeurIPS 2025Failure by Interference: Language Models Make Balanced Parentheses Errors When Faulty Mechanisms Overshadow Sound Ones
- NeurIPS 2025Improving Target Sound Extraction via Disentangled Codec Representations with Privileged Knowledge Distillation
- NeurIPS 2025JavisGPT: A Unified Multi-modal LLM for Sounding-Video Comprehension and Generation
- NeurIPS 2025Let Them Talk: Audio-Driven Multi-Person Conversational Video Generation
- NeurIPS 2025LeVo: High-Quality Song Generation with Multi-Preference Alignment
- NeurIPS 2025Massive Sound Embedding Benchmark (MSEB)
- NeurIPS 2025MEGADance: Mixture-of-Experts Architecture for Genre-Aware 3D Dance Generation
- NeurIPS 2025MGE-LDM: Joint Latent Diffusion for Simultaneous Music Generation and Source Extraction
- NeurIPS 2025MoCha: Towards Movie-Grade Talking Character Generation
- NeurIPS 2025Model-Guided Dual-Role Alignment for High-Fidelity Open-Domain Video-to-Audio Generation
- NeurIPS 2025MRSAudio: A Large-Scale Multimodal Recorded Spatial Audio Dataset with Refined Annotations
- NeurIPS 2025OmniTalker: One-shot Real-time Text-Driven Talking Audio-Video Generation With Multimodal Style Mimicking
- NeurIPS 2025Resounding Acoustic Fields with Reciprocity
- NeurIPS 2025Robust Distortion-Free Watermark for Autoregressive Audio Generation Models
- NeurIPS 2025SAO-Instruct: Free-form Audio Editing using Natural Language Instructions
- NeurIPS 2025SongBloom: Coherent Song Generation via Interleaved Autoregressive Sketching and Diffusion Refinement
- NeurIPS 2025Streaming Audio Generation from Discrete Tokens via Streaming Flow Matching
- NeurIPS 2025ThinkSound: Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Multimodal LLMs for Audio Generation and Editing
- NeurIPS 2025Towards A Translative Model of Sperm Whale Vocalization
- NeurIPS 2025Unbiased Sliced Wasserstein Kernels for High-Quality Audio Captioning
- NeurIPS 2025Unifying Symbolic Music Arrangement: Track-Aware Reconstruction and Structured Tokenization
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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.