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
31 papers, page 1 of 1
- CVPR 2025Animate and Sound an Image
- CVPR 2025AudCast: Audio-Driven Human Video Generation by Cascaded Diffusion Transformers
- CVPR 2025Co-Speech Gesture Video Generation with Implicit Motion-Audio Entanglement
- CVPR 2025Customized Condition Controllable Generation for Video Soundtrack
- CVPR 2025DistinctAD: Distinctive Audio Description Generation in Contexts
- CVPR 2025EmotiveTalk: Expressive Talking Head Generation through Audio Information Decoupling and Emotional Video Diffusion
- CVPR 2025Enhancing Dance-to-Music Generation via Negative Conditioning Latent Diffusion Model
- CVPR 2025Exploring Timeline Control for Facial Motion Generation
- CVPR 2025FilmComposer: LLM-Driven Music Production for Silent Film Clips
- CVPR 2025Foley-Flow: Coordinated Video-to-Audio Generation with Masked Audio-Visual Alignment and Dynamic Conditional Flows
- CVPR 2025Hearing Hands: Generating Sounds from Physical Interactions in 3D Scenes
- CVPR 2025Improving Sound Source Localization with Joint Slot Attention on Image and Audio
- CVPR 2025INFP: Audio-Driven Interactive Head Generation in Dyadic Conversations
- CVPR 2025KeyFace: Expressive Audio-Driven Facial Animation for Long Sequences via KeyFrame Interpolation
- CVPR 2025Learning to Highlight Audio by Watching Movies
- CVPR 2025Let's Chorus: Partner-aware Hybrid Song-Driven 3D Head Animation
- CVPR 2025MoEE: Mixture of Emotion Experts for Audio-Driven Portrait Animation
- CVPR 2025Object-aware Sound Source Localization via Audio-Visual Scene Understanding
- CVPR 2025OmniFlow: Any-to-Any Generation with Multi-Modal Rectified Flows
- CVPR 2025Revisiting Audio-Visual Segmentation with Vision-Centric Transformer
- CVPR 2025Seeing Speech and Sound: Distinguishing and Locating Audio Sources in Visual Scenes
- CVPR 2025Silence is Golden: Leveraging Adversarial Examples to Nullify Audio Control in LDM-based Talking-Head Generation
- CVPR 2025Sonic: Shifting Focus to Global Audio Perception in Portrait Animation
- CVPR 2025Sound Bridge: Associating Egocentric and Exocentric Videos via Audio Cues
- CVPR 2025Supervising Sound Localization by In-the-wild Egomotion
- CVPR 2025Synchronized Video-to-Audio Generation via Mel Quantization-Continuum Decomposition
- CVPR 2025Teller: Real-Time Streaming Audio-Driven Portrait Animation with Autoregressive Motion Generation
- CVPR 2025Video-Guided Foley Sound Generation with Multimodal Controls
- CVPR 2025VidMuse: A Simple Video-to-Music Generation Framework with Long-Short-Term Modeling
- CVPR 2025VinTAGe: Joint Video and Text Conditioning for Holistic Audio Generation
- CVPR 2025Wav2Sem: Plug-and-Play Audio Semantic Decoupling for 3D Speech-Driven Facial Animation
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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.