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

25 papers, page 1 of 1

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

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.