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
- 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.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 138 | 87 | 101 | 112 | 438 |
| 2024 | 348 | 156 | 246 | 125 | 875 |
| 2025 | 455 | 473 | 300 | 135 | 1,363 |
| 2026 | 480 | 623 | 551 | 228 | 1,882 |
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
875 papers, page 18 of 18
- NeurIPS 2024UnSeg: One Universal Unlearnable Example Generator is Enough against All Image Segmentation
- NeurIPS 2024Unsupervised Homography Estimation on Multimodal Image Pair via Alternating Optimization
- NeurIPS 2024Unveiling and Mitigating Backdoor Vulnerabilities based on Unlearning Weight Changes and Backdoor Activeness
- NeurIPS 2024Unveiling the Bias Impact on Symmetric Moral Consistency of Large Language Models
- NeurIPS 2024Vaccine: Perturbation-aware Alignment for Large Language Models against Harmful Fine-tuning Attack
- NeurIPS 2024Value Imprint: A Technique for Auditing the Human Values Embedded in RLHF Datasets
- NeurIPS 2024Verifiably Robust Conformal Prediction
- NeurIPS 2024Verified Safe Reinforcement Learning for Neural Network Dynamic Models
- NeurIPS 2024WAGLE: Strategic Weight Attribution for Effective and Modular Unlearning in Large Language Models
- NeurIPS 2024Watch Out for Your Agents! Investigating Backdoor Threats to LLM-Based Agents
- NeurIPS 2024WaterMax: breaking the LLM watermark detectability-robustness-quality trade-off
- NeurIPS 2024WaveAttack: Asymmetric Frequency Obfuscation-based Backdoor Attacks Against Deep Neural Networks
- NeurIPS 2024Weak-to-Strong Search: Align Large Language Models via Searching over Small Language Models
- NeurIPS 2024WeiPer: OOD Detection using Weight Perturbations of Class Projections
- NeurIPS 2024What If the Input is Expanded in OOD Detection?
- NeurIPS 2024What Makes and Breaks Safety Fine-tuning? A Mechanistic Study
- NeurIPS 2024When does perceptual alignment benefit vision representations?
- NeurIPS 2024When LLM Meets DRL: Advancing Jailbreaking Efficiency via DRL-guided Search
- NeurIPS 2024When Your AIs Deceive You: Challenges of Partial Observability in Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback
- NeurIPS 2024Who's asking? User personas and the mechanics of latent misalignment
- NeurIPS 2024WildGuard: Open One-stop Moderation Tools for Safety Risks, Jailbreaks, and Refusals of LLMs
- NeurIPS 2024WildTeaming at Scale: From In-the-Wild Jailbreaks to (Adversarially) Safer Language Models
- NeurIPS 2024Would I Lie To You? Inference Time Alignment of Language Models using Direct Preference Heads
- NeurIPS 2024Your contrastive learning problem is secretly a distribution alignment problem
- 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.