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

1,198 papers, page 11 of 24

501. ICML 2026Toward Scalable and Valid Conditional Independence Testing with Spectral Representations
502. ICML 2026Toward Stable Value Alignment: Introducing Independent Modules for Consistent Value Guidance
503. ICML 2026Towards a Science of AI Agent Reliability
504. ICML 2026Towards Context-Invariant Safety Alignment for Large Language Models
505. ICML 2026Towards Disentangled Preference Optimization Dynamics: Suppress the Loser, Preserve the Winner
506. ICML 2026Towards Multimodal Large Language Models with Both Training and Inference Efficiency
507. ICML 2026Towards Seed-Robust Safety Alignment in Text-to-Image Models
508. ICML 2026Towards Streaming Synchronized Spatial Audio Generation via Autoregressive Diffusion Transformer
509. ICML 2026Towards Understanding Steering Strength
510. ICML 2026Towards Uniformity and Alignment for Multimodal Representation Learning
511. ICML 2026TraceRouter: Robust Safety for Large Foundation Models via Path-Level Intervention
512. ICML 2026Tracing the Dynamics of Refusal: Exploiting Latent Refusal Trajectories for Robust Jailbreak Detection
513. ICML 2026Training LLM Agents to Empower Humans
514. ICML 2026Training with Honeypots: Reshaping How LLMs Fail Under Adversarial Attacks
515. ICML 2026Transitivity Meets Cyclicity: Explicit Preference Decomposition for Dynamic Large Language Model Alignment
516. ICML 2026Trojan-Speak: Bypassing Constitutional Classifiers with No Jailbreak Tax via Adversarial Finetuning
517. ICML 2026TUR-DPO: Topology- and Uncertainty-Aware Direct Preference Optimization
518. ICML 2026Turning Drift into Constraint: Robust Reasoning Alignment in Non-Stationary Multi-Stream Environments
519. ICML 2026Turning Stale Gradients into Stable Gradients: Coherent Coordinate Descent with Implicit Landscape Smoothing for Lightweight Zeroth-Order Optimization
520. ICML 2026Unbiased Alignment for Large Language Models with Noisy Preferences
521. ICML 2026Unbiased Principles, Robust Rewards
522. ICML 2026Unbiased Reward Modeling from Implicit Feedback for LLM Alignment
523. ICML 2026Uncovering Hidden Triggers: Backdoor Attribution in Language Models
524. ICML 2026Understanding and Mitigating Token-Pruning-Induced Vulnerabilities in VLMs
525. ICML 2026Understanding the Performance Gap in Preference Learning: A Dichotomy of RLHF and DPO
526. ICML 2026Unifying Adversarial Robustness and Training Across Text Scoring Models
527. ICML 2026UniRTL: Unifying Code and Graph for Robust RTL Representation Learning
528. ICML 2026UniScale: Adaptive Unified Inference Scaling via Online Joint Optimization of Model Routing and Test-Time Scaling
529. ICML 2026Unlearning’s Blind Spots: Over‑Unlearning and Prototypical Relearning Attack
530. ICML 2026Unsafer in Many Turns: Benchmarking and Defending Multi-Turn Safety Risks in Tool-Using Agents
531. ICML 2026Unveiling And Addressing Dimensional Collapse In Vector Quantization Models Via Codebook Regularization
532. ICML 2026VALUEFLOW: Toward Pluralistic and Steerable Value-based Alignment in Large Language Models
533. ICML 2026VERA-V: Variational Inference Framework for Jailbreaking Vision-Language Models
534. ICML 2026Verbalized Sampling: How to Mitigate Mode Collapse and Unlock LLM Diversity
535. ICML 2026ViEEG: Hierarchical Visual Neural Representation for EEG Brain Decoding
536. ICML 2026VSCD: Video-based Scene Change Detection in Unaligned Scenes
537. ICML 2026WeightCLIP: Aligning Datasets and Models for Weight Space Learning
538. ICML 2026When Actions Go Off-Task: Detecting and Correcting Misaligned Actions in Computer-Use Agents
539. ICML 2026When and How Human Curation Backfires: Preference Alignment under Multi-Model Self-Consuming Loop
540. ICML 2026When Benign Inputs Lead to Severe Harms: Eliciting Unsafe Unintended Behaviors of Computer-Use Agents
541. ICML 2026When Distance Distracts: Representation Distance Bias in BT-Loss for Reward Models
542. ICML 2026When Labelers Stay Silent: The Power of Ties in Cost-Effective Preference Learning
543. ICML 2026When Preference Labels Fall Short: Aligning Diffusion Models from Real Data
544. ICML 2026When Search Goes Wrong: Red-Teaming Web-Augmented Large Language Models
545. ICML 2026When Tabular Foundation Models Meet Strategic Tabular Data: A Prior Alignment Approach
546. ICML 2026Who Transfers Safety? Identifying and Targeting Cross-Lingual Shared Safety Neurons
547. ICML 2026Why Deep Jacobian Spectra Separate: Depth-Induced Scaling and Singular-Vector Alignment
548. ICML 2026Width Independent Bounds for the Local Lipschitz Constant of Deep Neural Networks at Random Initialization and after Lazy Training
549. ICML 2026WildCat: Near-Linear Attention in Theory and Practice
550. ICML 2026Z-Erase: Enabling Concept Erasure in Single Stream Diffusion Transformers

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.