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

875 papers, page 18 of 18

  1. NeurIPS 2024UnSeg: One Universal Unlearnable Example Generator is Enough against All Image Segmentation
  2. NeurIPS 2024Unsupervised Homography Estimation on Multimodal Image Pair via Alternating Optimization
  3. NeurIPS 2024Unveiling and Mitigating Backdoor Vulnerabilities based on Unlearning Weight Changes and Backdoor Activeness
  4. NeurIPS 2024Unveiling the Bias Impact on Symmetric Moral Consistency of Large Language Models
  5. NeurIPS 2024Vaccine: Perturbation-aware Alignment for Large Language Models against Harmful Fine-tuning Attack
  6. NeurIPS 2024Value Imprint: A Technique for Auditing the Human Values Embedded in RLHF Datasets
  7. NeurIPS 2024Verifiably Robust Conformal Prediction
  8. NeurIPS 2024Verified Safe Reinforcement Learning for Neural Network Dynamic Models
  9. NeurIPS 2024WAGLE: Strategic Weight Attribution for Effective and Modular Unlearning in Large Language Models
  10. NeurIPS 2024Watch Out for Your Agents! Investigating Backdoor Threats to LLM-Based Agents
  11. NeurIPS 2024WaterMax: breaking the LLM watermark detectability-robustness-quality trade-off
  12. NeurIPS 2024WaveAttack: Asymmetric Frequency Obfuscation-based Backdoor Attacks Against Deep Neural Networks
  13. NeurIPS 2024Weak-to-Strong Search: Align Large Language Models via Searching over Small Language Models
  14. NeurIPS 2024WeiPer: OOD Detection using Weight Perturbations of Class Projections
  15. NeurIPS 2024What If the Input is Expanded in OOD Detection?
  16. NeurIPS 2024What Makes and Breaks Safety Fine-tuning? A Mechanistic Study
  17. NeurIPS 2024When does perceptual alignment benefit vision representations?
  18. NeurIPS 2024When LLM Meets DRL: Advancing Jailbreaking Efficiency via DRL-guided Search
  19. NeurIPS 2024When Your AIs Deceive You: Challenges of Partial Observability in Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback
  20. NeurIPS 2024Who's asking? User personas and the mechanics of latent misalignment
  21. NeurIPS 2024WildGuard: Open One-stop Moderation Tools for Safety Risks, Jailbreaks, and Refusals of LLMs
  22. NeurIPS 2024WildTeaming at Scale: From In-the-Wild Jailbreaks to (Adversarially) Safer Language Models
  23. NeurIPS 2024Would I Lie To You? Inference Time Alignment of Language Models using Direct Preference Heads
  24. NeurIPS 2024Your contrastive learning problem is secretly a distribution alignment problem
  25. NeurIPS 2024ZeroMark: Towards Dataset Ownership Verification without Disclosing Watermark

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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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