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

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1. CVPR 2026Archon A Unified Multimodal Model for Holistic Digital Human Generation
2. CVPR 2026Audio-sync Video Instance Editing with Granularity-Aware Mask Refiner
3. CVPR 2026AudioStory Generating Long-Form Narrative Audio with Large Language Models
4. CVPR 2026Avatar Forcing Real-Time Interactive Head Avatar Generation for Natural Conversation
5. CVPR 2026Benchmarking Single-Factor Physical Video-to-Audio Generation
6. CVPR 2026Do You Have Freestyle Expressive Humanoid Locomotion via Audio Control
7. CVPR 2026Echoes Over Time Unlocking Length Generalization in Video-to-Audio Generation Models
8. CVPR 2026EchoFoley Event-Centric Hierarchical Control for Video Grounded Creative Sound Generation
9. CVPR 2026FoleyDesigner Immersive Stereo Foley Generation with Precise Spatio-Temporal Alignment for
10. CVPR 2026FoleyDirector Fine-Grained Temporal Steering for Video-to-Audio Generation via Structured Scripts
11. CVPR 2026Generate Analyze and Refine Training-Free Sound Source Localization via MLLM
12. CVPR 2026Harmonic Canvas Inversion-Free Editing for Visually-Guided Music Style Transfer
13. CVPR 2026Harmony Harmonizing Audio and Video Generation through Cross-Task Synergy
14. CVPR 2026Hear What Matters Text-conditioned Selective Video-to-Audio Generation
15. CVPR 2026Hear What You See Video-to-Audio Generation with Diffusion Transformer and
16. CVPR 2026LiveGesture Streamable Co-Speech Gesture Generation Model
17. CVPR 2026OmniSonic Towards Universal and Holistic Audio Generation from Video and
18. CVPR 2026PC-Talk Precise Facial Animation Control for Audio-Driven Talking Face Generation
19. CVPR 2026Real-Time Generation of Streamable Talking Portrait Video with Reference-Guided Deep
20. CVPR 2026SounDiT Geo-Contextual Soundscape-to-Landscape Generation
21. CVPR 2026SyncDreamer Controllable and Expressive Avatar Generation Beyond the Talking Head
22. CVPR 2026Talking Together Synthesizing Co-Located 3D Conversations from Audio
23. CVPR 2026UniAVGen Unified Audio and Video Generation with Asymmetric Cross-Modal Interactions
24. CVPR 2026UniLS End-to-End Audio-Driven Avatars for Unified Listening and Speaking
25. CVPR 2026Unlocking Strong Supervision A Data-Centric Study of General-Purpose Audio Pre-Training
26. CVPR 2026VABench A Comprehensive Benchmark for Audio-Video Generation
27. CVPR 2025Animate and Sound an Image
28. CVPR 2025AudCast: Audio-Driven Human Video Generation by Cascaded Diffusion Transformers
29. CVPR 2025Co-Speech Gesture Video Generation with Implicit Motion-Audio Entanglement
30. CVPR 2025Customized Condition Controllable Generation for Video Soundtrack
31. CVPR 2025DistinctAD: Distinctive Audio Description Generation in Contexts
32. CVPR 2025EmotiveTalk: Expressive Talking Head Generation through Audio Information Decoupling and Emotional Video Diffusion
33. CVPR 2025Enhancing Dance-to-Music Generation via Negative Conditioning Latent Diffusion Model
34. CVPR 2025Exploring Timeline Control for Facial Motion Generation
35. CVPR 2025FilmComposer: LLM-Driven Music Production for Silent Film Clips
36. CVPR 2025Foley-Flow: Coordinated Video-to-Audio Generation with Masked Audio-Visual Alignment and Dynamic Conditional Flows
37. CVPR 2025Hearing Hands: Generating Sounds from Physical Interactions in 3D Scenes
38. CVPR 2025Improving Sound Source Localization with Joint Slot Attention on Image and Audio
39. CVPR 2025INFP: Audio-Driven Interactive Head Generation in Dyadic Conversations
40. CVPR 2025KeyFace: Expressive Audio-Driven Facial Animation for Long Sequences via KeyFrame Interpolation
41. CVPR 2025Learning to Highlight Audio by Watching Movies
42. CVPR 2025Let's Chorus: Partner-aware Hybrid Song-Driven 3D Head Animation
43. CVPR 2025MoEE: Mixture of Emotion Experts for Audio-Driven Portrait Animation
44. CVPR 2025Object-aware Sound Source Localization via Audio-Visual Scene Understanding
45. CVPR 2025OmniFlow: Any-to-Any Generation with Multi-Modal Rectified Flows
46. CVPR 2025Revisiting Audio-Visual Segmentation with Vision-Centric Transformer
47. CVPR 2025Seeing Speech and Sound: Distinguishing and Locating Audio Sources in Visual Scenes
48. CVPR 2025Silence is Golden: Leveraging Adversarial Examples to Nullify Audio Control in LDM-based Talking-Head Generation
49. CVPR 2025Sonic: Shifting Focus to Global Audio Perception in Portrait Animation
50. CVPR 2025Sound Bridge: Associating Egocentric and Exocentric Videos via Audio Cues

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.