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 7 of 8
- ICML 2024LLark: A Multimodal Instruction-Following Language Model for Music
- ICML 2024MusicFlow: Cascaded Flow Matching for Text Guided Music Generation
- ICML 2024MusicRL: Aligning Music Generation to Human Preferences
- ICML 2024Prompt-guided Precise Audio Editing with Diffusion Models
- ICML 2024Symbolic Music Generation with Non-Differentiable Rule Guided Diffusion
- ICML 2024Time Weaver: A Conditional Time Series Generation Model
- ICML 2024UniAudio: Towards Universal Audio Generation with Large Language Models
- NeurIPS 2024Acoustic Volume Rendering for Neural Impulse Response Fields
- NeurIPS 2024AudioMarkBench: Benchmarking Robustness of Audio Watermarking
- NeurIPS 2024Differentiable Modal Synthesis for Physical Modeling of Planar String Sound and Motion Simulation
- NeurIPS 2024EffiBench: Benchmarking the Efficiency of Automatically Generated Code
- NeurIPS 2024Frieren: Efficient Video-to-Audio Generation Network with Rectified Flow Matching
- NeurIPS 2024Learning Spatially-Aware Language and Audio Embeddings
- NeurIPS 2024MimicTalk: Mimicking a personalized and expressive 3D talking face in minutes
- NeurIPS 2024MoMu-Diffusion: On Learning Long-Term Motion-Music Synchronization and Correspondence
- NeurIPS 2024RealMAN: A Real-Recorded and Annotated Microphone Array Dataset for Dynamic Speech Enhancement and Localization
- NeurIPS 2024SCOREQ: Speech Quality Assessment with Contrastive Regression
- NeurIPS 2024SongCreator: Lyrics-based Universal Song Generation
- NeurIPS 2024SpeechAlign: Aligning Speech Generation to Human Preferences
- NeurIPS 2024Spike-based Neuromorphic Model for Sound Source Localization
- NeurIPS 2024Structured Multi-Track Accompaniment Arrangement via Style Prior Modelling
- NeurIPS 2024The iNaturalist Sounds Dataset
- NeurIPS 2024UniAudio 1.5: Large Language Model-Driven Audio Codec is A Few-Shot Audio Task Learner
- NeurIPS 2024VASA-1: Lifelike Audio-Driven Talking Faces Generated in Real Time
- NeurIPS 2024Vocal Call Locator Benchmark (VCL) for localizing rodent vocalizations from multi-channel audio
- CVPR 2023Audio-Visual Grouping Network for Sound Localization From Mixtures
- CVPR 2023CASP-Net: Rethinking Video Saliency Prediction From an Audio-Visual Consistency Perceptual Perspective
- CVPR 2023Conditional Generation of Audio From Video via Foley Analogies
- CVPR 2023DiffTalk: Crafting Diffusion Models for Generalized Audio-Driven Portraits Animation
- CVPR 2023EDGE: Editable Dance Generation From Music
- CVPR 2023High-Fidelity Generalized Emotional Talking Face Generation With Multi-Modal Emotion Space Learning
- CVPR 2023Identity-Preserving Talking Face Generation With Landmark and Appearance Priors
- CVPR 2023iQuery: Instruments As Queries for Audio-Visual Sound Separation
- CVPR 2023LipFormer: High-Fidelity and Generalizable Talking Face Generation With a Pre-Learned Facial Codebook
- CVPR 2023MM-Diffusion: Learning Multi-Modal Diffusion Models for Joint Audio and Video Generation
- CVPR 2023Music-Driven Group Choreography
- CVPR 2023Parametric Implicit Face Representation for Audio-Driven Facial Reenactment
- CVPR 2023SadTalker: Learning Realistic 3D Motion Coefficients for Stylized Audio-Driven Single Image Talking Face Animation
- CVPR 2023Seeing What You Said: Talking Face Generation Guided by a Lip Reading Expert
- CVPR 2023Sound to Visual Scene Generation by Audio-to-Visual Latent Alignment
- CVPR 2023Taming Diffusion Models for Audio-Driven Co-Speech Gesture Generation
- CVPR 2023UDE: A Unified Driving Engine for Human Motion Generation
- ICLR 2023AudioGen: Textually Guided Audio Generation
- ICLR 2023BigVGAN: A Universal Neural Vocoder with Large-Scale Training
- ICLR 2023Discrete Contrastive Diffusion for Cross-Modal Music and Image Generation
- ICLR 2023FIGARO: Controllable Music Generation using Learned and Expert Features
- ICLR 2023GeneFace: Generalized and High-Fidelity Audio-Driven 3D Talking Face Synthesis
- ICLR 2023wav2tok: Deep Sequence Tokenizer for Audio Retrieval
- ICML 2023Make-An-Audio: Text-To-Audio Generation with Prompt-Enhanced Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2023AUDIT: Audio Editing by Following Instructions with Latent Diffusion Models
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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.