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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651. ICLR 2025Adversarial Perturbations Cannot Reliably Protect Artists From Generative AI
652. ICLR 2025Adversarial Search Engine Optimization for Large Language Models
653. ICLR 2025Adversaries With Incentives: A Strategic Alternative to Adversarial Robustness
654. ICLR 2025AgentHarm: A Benchmark for Measuring Harmfulness of LLM Agents
655. ICLR 2025AI Sandbagging: Language Models can Strategically Underperform on Evaluations
656. ICLR 2025AIR-BENCH 2024: A Safety Benchmark based on Regulation and Policies Specified Risk Categories
657. ICLR 2025ALBAR: Adversarial Learning approach to mitigate Biases in Action Recognition
658. ICLR 2025Aligned LLMs Are Not Aligned Browser Agents
659. ICLR 2025Aligning Language Models with Demonstrated Feedback
660. ICLR 2025Aligning Visual Contrastive learning models via Preference Optimization
661. ICLR 2025ALLaM: Large Language Models for Arabic and English
662. ICLR 2025AlphaEdit: Null-Space Constrained Knowledge Editing for Language Models
663. ICLR 2025Amulet: ReAlignment During Test Time for Personalized Preference Adaptation of LLMs
664. ICLR 2025An Auditing Test to Detect Behavioral Shift in Language Models
665. ICLR 2025An Effective Theory of Bias Amplification
666. ICLR 2025An Engorgio Prompt Makes Large Language Model Babble on
667. ICLR 2025An Undetectable Watermark for Generative Image Models
668. ICLR 2025Arithmetic Transformers Can Length-Generalize in Both Operand Length and Count
669. ICLR 2025As Simple as Fine-tuning: LLM Alignment via Bidirectional Negative Feedback Loss
670. ICLR 2025Asynchronous RLHF: Faster and More Efficient Off-Policy RL for Language Models
671. ICLR 2025Atomas: Hierarchical Adaptive Alignment on Molecule-Text for Unified Molecule Understanding and Generation
672. ICLR 2025Attention with Markov: A Curious Case of Single-layer Transformers
673. ICLR 2025AutoDAN-Turbo: A Lifelong Agent for Strategy Self-Exploration to Jailbreak LLMs
674. ICLR 2025Automated Filtering of Human Feedback Data for Aligning Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
675. ICLR 2025Automatic Curriculum Expert Iteration for Reliable LLM Reasoning
676. ICLR 2025Backtracking Improves Generation Safety
677. ICLR 2025Bad-PFL: Exploiting Backdoor Attacks against Personalized Federated Learning
678. ICLR 2025BadJudge: Backdoor Vulnerabilities of LLM-As-A-Judge
679. ICLR 2025BadRobot: Jailbreaking Embodied LLM Agents in the Physical World
680. ICLR 2025Balancing Bias in Two-sided Markets for Fair Stable Matchings
681. ICLR 2025Bayesian WeakS-to-Strong from Text Classification to Generation
682. ICLR 2025Bi-Factorial Preference Optimization: Balancing Safety-Helpfulness in Language Models
683. ICLR 2025BingoGuard: LLM Content Moderation Tools with Risk Levels
684. ICLR 2025Black-Box Detection of Language Model Watermarks
685. ICLR 2025BOND: Aligning LLMs with Best-of-N Distillation
686. ICLR 2025Booster: Tackling Harmful Fine-tuning for Large Language Models via Attenuating Harmful Perturbation
687. ICLR 2025Boosting Ray Search Procedure of Hard-label Attacks with Transfer-based Priors
688. ICLR 2025Bootstrapping Language Models with DPO Implicit Rewards
689. ICLR 2025Breach By A Thousand Leaks: Unsafe Information Leakage in 'Safe' AI Responses
690. ICLR 2025Bridging and Modeling Correlations in Pairwise Data for Direct Preference Optimization
691. ICLR 2025Bridging Jensen Gap for Max-Min Group Fairness Optimization in Recommendation
692. ICLR 2025Bridging the Gap between Variational Inference and Stochastic Gradient MCMC in Function Space
693. ICLR 2025Building Math Agents with Multi-Turn Iterative Preference Learning
694. ICLR 2025Calibrating Expressions of Certainty
695. ICLR 2025Can a Large Language Model be a Gaslighter?
696. ICLR 2025Can LLMs Separate Instructions From Data? And What Do We Even Mean By That?
697. ICLR 2025Can Video LLMs Refuse to Answer? Alignment for Answerability in Video Large Language Models
698. ICLR 2025Can Watermarked LLMs be Identified by Users via Crafted Prompts?
699. ICLR 2025Can Watermarks be Used to Detect LLM IP Infringement For Free?
700. ICLR 2025Can We Ignore Labels in Out of Distribution Detection?

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.