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

1,421 papers, page 12 of 29

551. NeurIPS 2025Chain-of-Zoom: Extreme Super-Resolution via Scale Autoregression and Preference Alignment
552. NeurIPS 2025Checklists Are Better Than Reward Models For Aligning Language Models
553. NeurIPS 2025Clean First, Align Later: Benchmarking Preference Data Cleaning for Reliable LLM Alignment
554. NeurIPS 2025Clip-and-Verify: Linear Constraint-Driven Domain Clipping for Accelerating Neural Network Verification
555. NeurIPS 2025Closed-Form Training Dynamics Reveal Learned Features and Linear Structure in Word2Vec-like Models
556. NeurIPS 2025Collective Bargaining in the Information Economy Can Address AI-Driven Power Concentration
557. NeurIPS 2025Combinatorial Ski Rental Problem: Robust and Learning-Augmented Algorithms
558. NeurIPS 2025Combining Cost Constrained Runtime Monitors for AI Safety
559. NeurIPS 2025Comparison requires valid measurement: Rethinking attack success rate comparisons in AI red teaming
560. NeurIPS 2025ComPO: Preference Alignment via Comparison Oracles
561. NeurIPS 2025Composition and Alignment of Diffusion Models using Constrained Learning
562. NeurIPS 2025Comprehensive Assessment and Analysis for NSFW Content Erasure in Text-to-Image Diffusion models
563. NeurIPS 2025Compress Large Language Models via Collaboration Between Learning and Matrix Approximation
564. NeurIPS 2025Computation and Memory-Efficient Model Compression with Gradient Reweighting
565. NeurIPS 2025Concentration and excess risk bounds for imbalanced classification with synthetic oversampling
566. NeurIPS 2025Confidence-Aware With Prototype Alignment for Partial Multi-label Learning
567. NeurIPS 2025Conformal Arbitrage: Risk-Controlled Balancing of Competing Objectives in Language Models
568. NeurIPS 2025Connecting Neural Models Latent Geometries with Relative Geodesic Representations
569. NeurIPS 2025Consistent Supervised-Unsupervised Alignment for Generalized Category Discovery
570. NeurIPS 2025Continuity and Isolation Lead to Doubts or Dilemmas in Large Language Models
571. NeurIPS 2025Contrastive Learning with Data Misalignment: Feature Purity, Training Dynamics and Theoretical Generalization Guarantees
572. NeurIPS 2025CoP: Agentic Red-teaming for Large Language Models using Composition of Principles
573. NeurIPS 2025CoT Red-Handed: Stress Testing Chain-of-Thought Monitoring
574. NeurIPS 2025Counterfactual Reasoning for Steerable Pluralistic Value Alignment of Large Language Models
575. NeurIPS 2025CPO: Condition Preference Optimization for Controllable Image Generation
576. NeurIPS 2025CTRL-ALT-DECEIT Sabotage Evaluations for Automated AI R&D
577. NeurIPS 2025CURE: Concept Unlearning via Orthogonal Representation Editing in Diffusion Models
578. NeurIPS 2025CVGL: Causal Learning and Geometric Topology
579. NeurIPS 2025DAPO : Improving Multi-Step Reasoning Abilities of Large Language Models with Direct Advantage-Based Policy Optimization
580. NeurIPS 2025Decoupling Contrastive Decoding: Robust Hallucination Mitigation in Multimodal Large Language Models
581. NeurIPS 2025Deep Value Benchmark: Measuring Whether Models Generalize Deep values or Shallow Preferences
582. NeurIPS 2025DeepKD: A Deeply Decoupled and Denoised Knowledge Distillation Trainer
583. NeurIPS 2025Delta Attention: Fast and Accurate Sparse Attention Inference by Delta Correction
584. NeurIPS 2025DenseDPO: Fine-Grained Temporal Preference Optimization for Video Diffusion Models
585. NeurIPS 2025Differentiable Sparsity via $D$-Gating: Simple and Versatile Structured Penalization
586. NeurIPS 2025Diffusion Model as a Noise-Aware Latent Reward Model for Step-Level Preference Optimization
587. NeurIPS 2025Diffusion Tree Sampling: Scalable inference‑time alignment of diffusion models
588. NeurIPS 2025Diffusion-Classifier Synergy: Reward-Aligned Learning via Mutual Boosting Loop for FSCIL
589. NeurIPS 2025Dimensional Collapse in VQVAEs: Evidence and Remedies
590. NeurIPS 2025Dimensionality Mismatch Between Brains and Artificial Neural Networks
591. NeurIPS 2025Direct Alignment with Heterogeneous Preferences
592. NeurIPS 2025Directed-Tokens: A Robust Multi-Modality Alignment Approach to Large Language-Vision Models
593. NeurIPS 2025Distillation Robustifies Unlearning
594. NeurIPS 2025Distortion of AI Alignment: Does Preference Optimization Optimize for Preferences?
595. NeurIPS 2025Distributional LLM-as-a-Judge
596. NeurIPS 2025Distributive Fairness in Large Language Models: Evaluating Alignment with Human Values
597. NeurIPS 2025DNAEdit: Direct Noise Alignment for Text-Guided Rectified Flow Editing
598. NeurIPS 2025Do LVLMs Truly Understand Video Anomalies? Revealing Hallucination via Co-Occurrence Patterns
599. NeurIPS 2025Doctor Approved: Generating Medically Accurate Skin Disease Images through AI-Expert Feedback
600. NeurIPS 2025Don’t Forget the Enjoin: FocalLoRA for Instruction Hierarchical Alignment in Large Language Models

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.