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

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501. NeurIPS 2025Agnostic Learning under Targeted Poisoning: Optimal Rates and the Role of Randomness
502. NeurIPS 2025AI-Generated Video Detection via Perceptual Straightening
503. NeurIPS 2025Align-DA: Align Score-based Atmospheric Data Assimilation with Multiple Preferences
504. NeurIPS 2025Aligning by Misaligning: Boundary-aware Curriculum Learning for Multimodal Alignment
505. NeurIPS 2025Aligning Compound AI Systems via System-level DPO
506. NeurIPS 2025Aligning Text to Image in Diffusion Models is Easier Than You Think
507. NeurIPS 2025Aligning Transformers with Continuous Feedback via Energy Rank Alignment
508. NeurIPS 2025Alignment of Large Language Models with Constrained Learning
509. NeurIPS 2025AliO: Output Alignment Matters in Long-Term Time Series Forecasting
510. NeurIPS 2025ALMGuard: Safety Shortcuts and Where to Find Them as Guardrails for Audio–Language Models
511. NeurIPS 2025Among Us: A Sandbox for Measuring and Detecting Agentic Deception
512. NeurIPS 2025An Optimized Franz-Parisi Criterion and its Equivalence with SQ Lower Bounds
513. NeurIPS 2025Analyzing Fine-Grained Alignment and Enhancing Vision Understanding in Multimodal Language Models
514. NeurIPS 2025Angular Steering: Behavior Control via Rotation in Activation Space
515. NeurIPS 2025Artificial Hivemind: The Open-Ended Homogeneity of Language Models (and Beyond)
516. NeurIPS 2025Ask a Strong LLM Judge when Your Reward Model is Uncertain
517. NeurIPS 2025Asymptotics of SGD in Sequence-Single Index Models and Single-Layer Attention Networks
518. NeurIPS 2025Attention Mechanism, Max-Affine Partition, and Universal Approximation
519. NeurIPS 2025Auto-Connect: Connectivity-Preserving RigFormer with Direct Preference Optimization
520. NeurIPS 2025Automatic Synthetic Data and Fine-grained Adaptive Feature Alignment for Composed Person Retrieval
521. NeurIPS 2025AutoOpt: A Dataset and a Unified Framework for Automating Optimization Problem Solving
522. NeurIPS 2025AutoRedTeamer: Autonomous Red Teaming with Lifelong Attack Integration
523. NeurIPS 2025Avoiding exp(R) scaling in RLHF through Preference-based Exploration
524. NeurIPS 2025Backdoor Cleaning without External Guidance in MLLM Fine-tuning
525. NeurIPS 2025BackdoorLLM: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Backdoor Attacks and Defenses on Large Language Models
526. NeurIPS 2025Bag of Tricks for Inference-time Computation of LLM Reasoning
527. NeurIPS 2025Balancing Positive and Negative Classification Error Rates in Positive-Unlabeled Learning
528. NeurIPS 2025Bandit and Delayed Feedback in Online Structured Prediction
529. NeurIPS 2025Best-of-N Jailbreaking
530. NeurIPS 2025Better Estimation of the Kullback--Leibler Divergence Between Language Models
531. NeurIPS 2025Beyond Expectations: Quantile-Guided Alignment for Risk-Calibrated Language Models
532. NeurIPS 2025Beyond Oracle: Verifier-Supervision for Instruction Hierarchy in Reasoning and Instruction-Tuned LLMs
533. NeurIPS 2025Beyond Scalars: Concept-Based Alignment Analysis in Vision Transformers
534. NeurIPS 2025Bi-Level Decision-Focused Causal Learning for Large-Scale Marketing Optimization: Bridging Observational and Experimental Data
535. NeurIPS 2025BLEUBERI: BLEU is a surprisingly effective reward for instruction following
536. NeurIPS 2025Boosting Adversarial Transferability with Spatial Adversarial Alignment
537. NeurIPS 2025Brain-tuning Improves Generalizability and Efficiency of Brain Alignment in Speech Models
538. NeurIPS 2025Bridging Crypto with ML-based Solvers: the SAT Formulation and Benchmarks
539. NeurIPS 2025Bridging Human and LLM Judgments: Understanding and Narrowing the Gap
540. NeurIPS 2025Bridging Theory and Practice in Link Representation with Graph Neural Networks
541. NeurIPS 2025Bridging Time and Linguistics: LLMs as Time Series Analyzer through Symbolization and Segmentation
542. NeurIPS 2025C-SafeGen: Certified Safe LLM Generation with Claim-Based Streaming Guardrails
543. NeurIPS 2025Calibrating Translation Decoding with Quality Estimation on LLMs
544. NeurIPS 2025CaliGCL: Calibrated Graph Contrastive Learning via Partitioned Similarity and Consistency Discrimination
545. NeurIPS 2025CALM: Culturally Self-Aware Language Models
546. NeurIPS 2025CAMILA: Context-Aware Masking for Image Editing with Language Alignment
547. NeurIPS 2025Can DPO Learn Diverse Human Values? A Theoretical Scaling Law
548. NeurIPS 2025CARE: Decoding-Time Safety Alignment via Rollback and Introspection Intervention
549. NeurIPS 2025CARES: Comprehensive Evaluation of Safety and Adversarial Robustness in Medical LLMs
550. NeurIPS 2025Certifying Concavity and Monotonicity in Games via Sum-of-Squares Hierarchies

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.