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

4,558 papers, page 19 of 92

901. ICML 2026Blending Neural Control Density Functions for Stabilization and Safety
902. ICML 2026BLOCK-EM: Preventing Emergent Misalignment via Latent Blocking
903. ICML 2026BlueCodeAgent: A Blue Teaming Agent Powered by Automated Red Teaming for CodeGen AI
904. ICML 2026Breaking the Reference Bottleneck via Learning to Rewrite Conversational Queries without Gold Reference Passages
905. ICML 2026Brep2Shape: Boundary and Shape Representation Alignment via Self-supervised Transformers
906. ICML 2026Bridging Spherical Black-Box Optimizers
907. ICML 2026Bridging the Stability-Expressivity Gap: Synthetic Data Scaling and Preference Alignment for Low-Resource Spoken Language Models
908. ICML 2026BroRL: Scaling Reinforcement Learning via Broadened Exploration
909. ICML 2026Calibrated Preference Learning: The Case of Label Ranking
910. ICML 2026Calibrating Conservatism for Scalable Oversight
911. ICML 2026CALM Before the STORM: Unlocking Native Reasoning for Optimization Modeling
912. ICML 2026CAMP: Coherent Alignment of Multimodal Prototypes for Explainable Complementary Learning
913. ICML 2026Can VLMs Diagnose and Recover from VLA Manipulation Faults?
914. ICML 2026Capability Traps in DPO
915. ICML 2026Capacity without Access: Reinterpreting the Mid-Depth Spectral Plateau in LLMs
916. ICML 2026CAReDiO: Enhancing Cultural Alignment of LLM via Representativeness and Distinctiveness Guided Data Optimization
917. ICML 2026CauchyNet: Compact and Data-Efficient Learning using Holomorphic Activation Functions
918. ICML 2026Causal Direct Preference Optimization for Distributionally Robust Generative Recommendation
919. ICML 2026Causes and Consequences of Representational Similarity in Machine Learning Models
920. ICML 2026Certificate-Guided Pruning for Stochastic Lipschitz Optimization
921. ICML 2026Certified Robustness under Heterogeneous Perturbations via Hybrid Randomized Smoothing
922. ICML 2026CL-GCL: Comprehensive and Lightweight Graph Contrastive Learning
923. ICML 2026Class-Grouped Normalized Momentum and Faster Hyperparameter Exploration to Tackle Class Imbalance in Federated Learning
924. ICML 2026ClinTutor-R1: Advancing Scalable and Robust One-to-Many Alignment in Clinical Socratic Education
925. ICML 2026Clipping Makes Distributed and Federated Asynchronous SGD Robust to Stragglers
926. ICML 2026Co-RedTeam: Orchestrated Security Discovery and Exploitation with LLM Agents
927. ICML 2026Cognitive Fatigue in Autoregressive Transformers: Formalization and Measurement
928. ICML 2026CollabBench: Benchmarking and Unleashing Collaborative Ability of LLMs with Diverse Players via Proactive Engagement
929. ICML 2026Coloring the Noise: Adversarial Sobolev Alignment for Faithful Image Super Resolution
930. ICML 2026Compact Conformal Subgraphs
931. ICML 2026Compressed Sensing for Capability Localization in Large Language Models
932. ICML 2026Concept Concentration for Faithful Representation Intervention
933. ICML 2026Concept Heterogeneity-aware Representation Steering
934. ICML 2026Concept Removal Guidance: Evidence-Calibrated Negative Guidance for Safe Diffusion Sampling
935. ICML 2026Conditional Equivalence of DPO and RLHF: Assumptions, Failure Modes, and Provable Alignment
936. ICML 2026Configurable Reward Model for Balanced Safety Alignment
937. ICML 2026Conflict-Aware Adaptive Alignment for LLM Hallucination Mitigation
938. ICML 2026Conflict-Aware Additive Guidance for Flow Models under Compositional Rewards
939. ICML 2026Conformal Policy Control
940. ICML 2026Conformal Prediction for Early Stopping in Mixed Integer Optimization
941. ICML 2026Conformal Risk-Averse Decision Making with Action Conditional Guarantee
942. ICML 2026Consistency Training Can Entrench Misalignment
943. ICML 2026Constitutional Black-Box Monitoring for Scheming in LLM Agents
944. ICML 2026Contextual Slate GLM Bandits with Limited Adaptivity
945. ICML 2026Contrastive Weak-to-Strong Generalization
946. ICML 2026Controllable and Explainable Personality Sliders for LLMs at Inference Time
947. ICML 2026Controlling the Risk of Corrupted Contexts for Language Models via Early-Exiting
948. ICML 2026Convergence Rate Analysis of the AdamW-Style Shampoo: Unifying One-Sided and Two-Sided Preconditioning
949. ICML 2026Convergent World Representations and Divergent Tasks
950. ICML 2026Convex Optimization for Alignment and Preference Learning on a Single GPU

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.