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 18 of 24

851. ICML 2025When, Where and Why to Average Weights?
852. ICML 2024A connection between Tempering and Entropic Mirror Descent
853. ICML 2024A Global Geometric Analysis of Maximal Coding Rate Reduction
854. ICML 2024A Mechanistic Understanding of Alignment Algorithms: A Case Study on DPO and Toxicity
855. ICML 2024A Minimaximalist Approach to Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback
856. ICML 2024A Neural-Preconditioned Poisson Solver for Mixed Dirichlet and Neumann Boundary Conditions
857. ICML 2024A Unified Linear Programming Framework for Offline Reward Learning from Human Demonstrations and Feedback
858. ICML 2024Accelerated Algorithms for Constrained Nonconvex-Nonconcave Min-Max Optimization and Comonotone Inclusion
859. ICML 2024Active Preference Learning for Large Language Models
860. ICML 2024Active Ranking and Matchmaking, with Perfect Matchings
861. ICML 2024Advancing DRL Agents in Commercial Fighting Games: Training, Integration, and Agent-Human Alignment
862. ICML 2024Adversarial Robustness Limits via Scaling-Law and Human-Alignment Studies
863. ICML 2024Agent Smith: A Single Image Can Jailbreak One Million Multimodal LLM Agents Exponentially Fast
864. ICML 2024Agnostic Learning of Mixed Linear Regressions with EM and AM Algorithms
865. ICML 2024AI Alignment with Changing and Influenceable Reward Functions
866. ICML 2024AI Control: Improving Safety Despite Intentional Subversion
867. ICML 2024Algorithm and Hardness for Dynamic Attention Maintenance in Large Language Models
868. ICML 2024Aligning Transformers with Weisfeiler-Leman
869. ICML 2024AlphaZero-Like Tree-Search can Guide Large Language Model Decoding and Training
870. ICML 2024An Online Optimization Perspective on First-Order and Zero-Order Decentralized Nonsmooth Nonconvex Stochastic Optimization
871. ICML 2024Assessing the Brittleness of Safety Alignment via Pruning and Low-Rank Modifications
872. ICML 2024AutoOS: Make Your OS More Powerful by Exploiting Large Language Models
873. ICML 2024Balanced Resonate-and-Fire Neurons
874. ICML 2024Balancing Similarity and Complementarity for Federated Learning
875. ICML 2024Bootstrapping Fisher Market Equilibrium and First-Price Pacing Equilibrium
876. ICML 2024BRAIn: Bayesian Reward-conditioned Amortized Inference for natural language generation from feedback
877. ICML 2024Bridging Mini-Batch and Asymptotic Analysis in Contrastive Learning: From InfoNCE to Kernel-Based Losses
878. ICML 2024Byzantine-Robust Federated Learning: Impact of Client Subsampling and Local Updates
879. ICML 2024Can AI Assistants Know What They Don't Know?
880. ICML 2024Can Machines Learn the True Probabilities?
881. ICML 2024CARTE: Pretraining and Transfer for Tabular Learning
882. ICML 2024Catapults in SGD: spikes in the training loss and their impact on generalization through feature learning
883. ICML 2024Causal Bandits: The Pareto Optimal Frontier of Adaptivity, a Reduction to Linear Bandits, and Limitations around Unknown Marginals
884. ICML 2024Characterizing Large Language Model Geometry Helps Solve Toxicity Detection and Generation
885. ICML 2024Classification under Nuisance Parameters and Generalized Label Shift in Likelihood-Free Inference
886. ICML 2024CogBench: a large language model walks into a psychology lab
887. ICML 2024COLD-Attack: Jailbreaking LLMs with Stealthiness and Controllability
888. ICML 2024Compressing Large Language Models by Joint Sparsification and Quantization
889. ICML 2024Conformalized Survival Distributions: A Generic Post-Process to Increase Calibration
890. ICML 2024Contrastive Predict-and-Search for Mixed Integer Linear Programs
891. ICML 2024Contrastive Preference Optimization: Pushing the Boundaries of LLM Performance in Machine Translation
892. ICML 2024Convergence and Complexity Guarantee for Inexact First-order Riemannian Optimization Algorithms
893. ICML 2024Convergence and Trade-Offs in Riemannian Gradient Descent and Riemannian Proximal Point
894. ICML 2024Convex and Bilevel Optimization for Neural-Symbolic Inference and Learning
895. ICML 2024Criterion Collapse and Loss Distribution Control
896. ICML 2024DecisionNCE: Embodied Multimodal Representations via Implicit Preference Learning
897. ICML 2024Decoding-time Realignment of Language Models
898. ICML 2024Decomposable Submodular Maximization in Federated Setting
899. ICML 2024Deconstructing the Goldilocks Zone of Neural Network Initialization
900. ICML 2024Decoupling Learning and Decision-Making: Breaking the $\mathcal{O}(\sqrt{T})$ Barrier in Online Resource Allocation with First-Order Methods

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.