Alignment and Safety papers, 2023–2026

RLHF, preference optimization, red-teaming, and safety alignment

Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 4,558 papers are tagged with this topic.

Key findings

Papers per year

Papers per venue

Counts by year and venue

Alignment and Safety papers by year and venue
YearNeurIPSICLRICMLCVPRTotal
202313887101112438
2024348156246125875
20254554733001351,363
20264806235512281,882

Representative papers

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All Alignment and Safety papers

1,339 papers, page 15 of 27

  1. ICLR 2025Capturing the Temporal Dependence of Training Data Influence
  2. ICLR 2025Certified Robustness Under Bounded Levenshtein Distance
  3. ICLR 2025Certifying Counterfactual Bias in LLMs
  4. ICLR 2025Certifying Language Model Robustness with Fuzzed Randomized Smoothing: An Efficient Defense Against Backdoor Attacks
  5. ICLR 2025CHiP: Cross-modal Hierarchical Direct Preference Optimization for Multimodal LLMs
  6. ICLR 2025CipherPrune: Efficient and Scalable Private Transformer Inference
  7. ICLR 2025Circuit Representation Learning with Masked Gate Modeling and Verilog-AIG Alignment
  8. ICLR 2025Collab: Controlled Decoding using Mixture of Agents for LLM Alignment
  9. ICLR 2025CollabEdit: Towards Non-destructive Collaborative Knowledge Editing
  10. ICLR 2025Collapsed Language Models Promote Fairness
  11. ICLR 2025Comparing Targeting Strategies for Maximizing Social Welfare with Limited Resources
  12. ICLR 2025Complementary Label Learning with Positive Label Guessing and Negative Label Enhancement
  13. ICLR 2025Concept-ROT: Poisoning Concepts in Large Language Models with Model Editing
  14. ICLR 2025ConcreTizer: Model Inversion Attack via Occupancy Classification and Dispersion Control for 3D Point Cloud Restoration
  15. ICLR 2025Confidence Elicitation: A New Attack Vector for Large Language Models
  16. ICLR 2025Conformal Prediction Sets Can Cause Disparate Impact
  17. ICLR 2025Conformalized Interactive Imitation Learning: Handling Expert Shift and Intermittent Feedback
  18. ICLR 2025Conservative Contextual Bandits: Beyond Linear Representations
  19. ICLR 2025Context-Alignment: Activating and Enhancing LLMs Capabilities in Time Series
  20. ICLR 2025Continuous Autoregressive Modeling with Stochastic Monotonic Alignment for Speech Synthesis
  21. ICLR 2025Controllable Safety Alignment: Inference-Time Adaptation to Diverse Safety Requirements
  22. ICLR 2025Controllable Satellite-to-Street-View Synthesis with Precise Pose Alignment and Zero-Shot Environmental Control
  23. ICLR 2025Controllable Unlearning for Image-to-Image Generative Models via $\epsilon$-Constrained Optimization
  24. ICLR 2025Convergence and Implicit Bias of Gradient Descent on Continual Linear Classification
  25. ICLR 2025Convergent Privacy Loss of Noisy-SGD without Convexity and Smoothness
  26. ICLR 2025Copyright-Protected Language Generation via Adaptive Model Fusion
  27. ICLR 2025Correcting the Mythos of KL-Regularization: Direct Alignment without Overoptimization via Chi-Squared Preference Optimization
  28. ICLR 2025Correlated Proxies: A New Definition and Improved Mitigation for Reward Hacking
  29. ICLR 2025CREAM: Consistency Regularized Self-Rewarding Language Models
  30. ICLR 2025Cross-Modal Safety Mechanism Transfer in Large Vision-Language Models
  31. ICLR 2025Ctrl-U: Robust Conditional Image Generation via Uncertainty-aware Reward Modeling
  32. ICLR 2025DailyDilemmas: Revealing Value Preferences of LLMs with Quandaries of Daily Life
  33. ICLR 2025DarkBench: Benchmarking Dark Patterns in Large Language Models
  34. ICLR 2025Data Distillation for extrapolative protein design through exact preference optimization
  35. ICLR 2025Data Taggants: Dataset Ownership Verification Via Harmless Targeted Data Poisoning
  36. ICLR 2025Data-adaptive Differentially Private Prompt Synthesis for In-Context Learning
  37. ICLR 2025Dataset Ownership Verification in Contrastive Pre-trained Models
  38. ICLR 2025DCT-CryptoNets: Scaling Private Inference in the Frequency Domain
  39. ICLR 2025Deep Kernel Relative Test for Machine-generated Text Detection
  40. ICLR 2025Democratic Training Against Universal Adversarial Perturbations
  41. ICLR 2025Detecting Backdoor Samples in Contrastive Language Image Pretraining
  42. ICLR 2025Differentiable Optimization of Similarity Scores Between Models and Brains
  43. ICLR 2025Differentially Private Federated Learning with Time-Adaptive Privacy Spending
  44. ICLR 2025Differentially private optimization for non-decomposable objective functions
  45. ICLR 2025Differentially Private Steering for Large Language Model Alignment
  46. ICLR 2025Diffusion-NPO: Negative Preference Optimization for Better Preference Aligned Generation of Diffusion Models
  47. ICLR 2025DiffusionGuard: A Robust Defense Against Malicious Diffusion-based Image Editing
  48. ICLR 2025Direct Post-Training Preference Alignment for Multi-Agent Motion Generation Model Using Implicit Feedback from Pre-training Demonstrations
  49. ICLR 2025DiSK: Differentially Private Optimizer with Simplified Kalman Filter for Noise Reduction
  50. ICLR 2025Dissecting Adversarial Robustness of Multimodal LM Agents

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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.

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