Alignment and Safety papers, 2023–2026

Key findings

• Alignment and Safety went from 438 papers in 2023 to 1,882 in 2026, roughly 4.3x in three years.
• NeurIPS publishes the most Alignment and Safety work: 1,421 papers from 2023 to 2026, 31% of the four-venue total.
• The fastest-growing overlap is with Social aspects · safety: papers tagged with both rose from 0 in 2023 to 137 in 2026.
• Among the 5 topics under Alignment and Responsible AI, it ranks #1 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Social aspects · safety, is up 93x versus 4.3x here.

Representative papers

Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up

• NeurIPS 2026$\gamma$-weakly $\theta$-up-concavity: A Unified Framework for Non-Convex Optimization Beyond DR-Submodular and OSS Functions
• ICML 2026AICrypto: Evaluating Cryptography Capabilities of Large Language Models
• ICLR 2026A Fair Bayesian Inference through Matched Gibbs Posterior
• CVPR 2026Advancing Cancer Prognosis with Hierarchical Fusion of Genomic Proteomic and
• NeurIPS 2025$\Psi$-Sampler: Initial Particle Sampling for SMC-Based Inference-Time Reward Alignment in Score Models
• ICML 2025A Checks-and-Balances Framework for Context-Aware Ethical AI Alignment
• ICLR 2025$\sigma$-zero: Gradient-based Optimization of $\ell_0$-norm Adversarial Examples
• CVPR 2025AesthetiQ: Enhancing Graphic Layout Design via Aesthetic-Aware Preference Alignment of Multi-modal Large Language Models
• NeurIPS 2024A survey and benchmark of high-dimensional Bayesian optimization of discrete sequences
• ICML 2024A Global Geometric Analysis of Maximal Coding Rate Reduction
• ICLR 2024A unique M-pattern for micro-expression spotting in long videos
• CVPR 2024Decompose-and-Compose: A Compositional Approach to Mitigating Spurious Correlation
• NeurIPS 2023(S)GD over Diagonal Linear Networks: Implicit bias, Large Stepsizes and Edge of Stability
• ICML 2023A Robust Optimisation Perspective on Counterexample-Guided Repair of Neural Networks
• ICLR 2023Aligning Model and Macaque Inferior Temporal Cortex Representations Improves Model-to-Human Behavioral Alignment and Adversarial Robustness
• CVPR 2023Adjustment and Alignment for Unbiased Open Set Domain Adaptation
• NeurIPS 2026$\mathcal{P}$Torch: Narrowing the Gap Between Projection and Gradient-Based Learning
• ICML 2026Alignment Pretraining: AI Discourse Causes Self-Fulfilling (Mis)alignment
• ICLR 2026A2D: Any-Order, Any-Step Safety Alignment for Diffusion Language Models
• CVPR 2026AlignPose Generalizable 6D Pose Estimation via Multi-view Feature-metric Alignment

All Alignment and Safety papers

473 papers, page 10 of 10

451. ICLR 2025Understanding and Enhancing the Transferability of Jailbreaking Attacks
452. ICLR 2025Understanding the Generalization of In-Context Learning in Transformers: An Empirical Study
453. ICLR 2025UniDetox: Universal Detoxification of Large Language Models via Dataset Distillation
454. ICLR 2025Unintentional Unalignment: Likelihood Displacement in Direct Preference Optimization
455. ICLR 2025Unlearn and Burn: Adversarial Machine Unlearning Requests Destroy Model Accuracy
456. ICLR 2025Unlearning or Obfuscating? Jogging the Memory of Unlearned LLMs via Benign Relearning
457. ICLR 2025Utility-Directed Conformal Prediction: A Decision-Aware Framework for Actionable Uncertainty Quantification
458. ICLR 2025Value-aligned Behavior Cloning for Offline Reinforcement Learning via Bi-level Optimization
459. ICLR 2025Value-Incentivized Preference Optimization: A Unified Approach to Online and Offline RLHF
460. ICLR 2025Variational Best-of-N Alignment
461. ICLR 2025Varying Shades of Wrong: Aligning LLMs with Wrong Answers Only
462. ICLR 2025VibeCheck: Discover and Quantify Qualitative Differences in Large Language Models
463. ICLR 2025VideoPhy: Evaluating Physical Commonsense for Video Generation
464. ICLR 2025VideoShield: Regulating Diffusion-based Video Generation Models via Watermarking
465. ICLR 2025Vision CNNs trained to estimate spatial latents learned similar ventral-stream-aligned representations
466. ICLR 2025Walk the Talk? Measuring the Faithfulness of Large Language Model Explanations
467. ICLR 2025Wasserstein Distances, Neuronal Entanglement, and Sparsity
468. ICLR 2025Weak-to-Strong Preference Optimization: Stealing Reward from Weak Aligned Model
469. ICLR 2025Weighted-Reward Preference Optimization for Implicit Model Fusion
470. ICLR 2025Wicked Oddities: Selectively Poisoning for Effective Clean-Label Backdoor Attacks
471. ICLR 2025X-ALMA: Plug & Play Modules and Adaptive Rejection for Quality Translation at Scale
472. ICLR 2025Your Weak LLM is Secretly a Strong Teacher for Alignment
473. ICLR 2025Zeroth-Order Policy Gradient for Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback without Reward Inference

FAQ

How many Alignment and Safety papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?

4,558 in total: 438 in 2023, 875 in 2024, 1,363 in 2025, 1,882 in 2026.

How many Alignment and Safety papers are at NeurIPS 2026?

NeurIPS 2026 has 480 Alignment and Safety papers, versus 455 the year before.

How many Alignment and Safety papers are at ICLR 2026?

ICLR 2026 has 623 Alignment and Safety papers, versus 473 the year before.

How many Alignment and Safety papers are at ICML 2026?

ICML 2026 has 551 Alignment and Safety papers, versus 300 the year before.

How many Alignment and Safety papers are at CVPR 2026?

CVPR 2026 has 228 Alignment and Safety papers, versus 135 the year before.

Which conference publishes the most Alignment and Safety papers?

NeurIPS, with 1,421 papers from 2023 to 2026.