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

52 papers, page 1 of 2

1. ICML 2026AudioChat: Unified Audio Storytelling, Editing, and Understanding with Transfusion Forcing
2. ICML 2026AudioMosaic: Contrastive Masked Audio Representation Learning
3. ICML 2026BAT: Better Audio Transformer Guided by Convex Gated Probing
4. ICML 2026BEAT: Tokenizing and Generating Symbolic Music by Uniform Temporal Steps
5. ICML 2026Bridging Your Imagination with Audio-Video Generation via a Unified Director
6. ICML 2026CMI-RewardBench: Evaluating Music Reward Models with Compositional Multimodal Instruction
7. ICML 2026DiscoForcing: A Unified Framework for Real-Time Audio-Driven Character Control with Diffusion Forcing
8. ICML 2026DreamID-Omni: Unified Framework for Controllable Human-Centric Audio-Video Generation
9. ICML 2026Learning Tight Rejection Boundaries without Negatives for Strict One-Class Audio Deepfake Detection
10. ICML 2026LLM-Guided Loop Bound Generation for Program Termination Verification
11. ICML 2026MusicDET: Zero-Shot AI-Generated Music Detection
12. ICML 2026PHALAR: Phasors for Learned Musical Audio Representations
13. ICML 2026PhaseCoder: Microphone Geometry-Agnostic Spatial Audio Understanding for Multimodal LLMs
14. ICML 2026Polyphonia: Zero-Shot Timbre Transfer in Polyphonic Music with Acoustic-Informed Attention Calibration
15. ICML 2026SAM Audio: Segment Anything in Audio
16. ICML 2026Scaling Transformers for End-to-End Discrete Audio Tokenization
17. ICML 2026SONAR: Spectral‑Contrastive Audio Residuals for Generalizable Deepfake Detection
18. ICML 2026SonicMaster: Towards Controllable All-in-One Music Restoration and Mastering
19. ICML 2026SPEAR: A Unified SSL Framework for Learning Speech and Audio Representations
20. ICML 2026Spherical Procrustes Alignment for Reliable Medical Audio Diagnosis
21. ICML 2026STAR-VAE: Structured Topology-Aware Regularization for Audio Reconstruction and Generation
22. ICML 2026T2AV-Compass: Towards Unified Evaluation for Text-to-Audio-Video Generation
23. ICML 2026TMD-Bench: A Multi-Level Evaluation Paradigm for Music–Dance Co-Generation
24. ICML 2026Towards Streaming Synchronized Spatial Audio Generation via Autoregressive Diffusion Transformer
25. ICML 2026Two-dimensional quantization for geometry-aware audio coding
26. ICML 2025ALMTokenizer: A Low-bitrate and Semantic-rich Audio Codec Tokenizer for Audio Language Modeling
27. ICML 2025Audio Flamingo 2: An Audio-Language Model with Long-Audio Understanding and Expert Reasoning Abilities
28. ICML 2025CodeSync: Synchronizing Large Language Models with Dynamic Code Evolution at Scale
29. ICML 2025Efficient Fine-Grained Guidance for Diffusion Model Based Symbolic Music Generation
30. ICML 2025ETTA: Elucidating the Design Space of Text-to-Audio Models
31. ICML 2025IMPACT: Iterative Mask-based Parallel Decoding for Text-to-Audio Generation with Diffusion Modeling
32. ICML 2025MuseControlLite: Multifunctional Music Generation with Lightweight Conditioners
33. ICML 2025OmniAudio: Generating Spatial Audio from 360-Degree Video
34. ICML 2025Sounding that Object: Interactive Object-Aware Image to Audio Generation
35. ICML 2025Supervised Contrastive Learning from Weakly-Labeled Audio Segments for Musical Version Matching
36. ICML 2024An Independence-promoting Loss for Music Generation with Language Models
37. ICML 2024AND: Audio Network Dissection for Interpreting Deep Acoustic Models
38. ICML 2024Creative Text-to-Audio Generation via Synthesizer Programming
39. ICML 2024D-Flow: Differentiating through Flows for Controlled Generation
40. ICML 2024DFlow: A Generative Model Combining Denoising AutoEncoder and Normalizing Flow for High Fidelity Waveform Generation
41. ICML 2024DITTO: Diffusion Inference-Time T-Optimization for Music Generation
42. ICML 2024Fast Timing-Conditioned Latent Audio Diffusion
43. ICML 2024From Vision to Audio and Beyond: A Unified Model for Audio-Visual Representation and Generation
44. ICML 2024Listenable Maps for Audio Classifiers
45. ICML 2024LLark: A Multimodal Instruction-Following Language Model for Music
46. ICML 2024MusicFlow: Cascaded Flow Matching for Text Guided Music Generation
47. ICML 2024MusicRL: Aligning Music Generation to Human Preferences
48. ICML 2024Prompt-guided Precise Audio Editing with Diffusion Models
49. ICML 2024Symbolic Music Generation with Non-Differentiable Rule Guided Diffusion
50. ICML 2024Time Weaver: A Conditional Time Series Generation Model

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.