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
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- 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
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- CVPR 2024Hyper-MD: Mesh Denoising with Customized Parameters Aware of Noise Intensity and Geometric Characteristics
- CVPR 2024Improving Single Domain-Generalized Object Detection: A Focus on Diversification and Alignment
- CVPR 2024Improving Spectral Snapshot Reconstruction with Spectral-Spatial Rectification
- CVPR 2024Incremental Nuclei Segmentation from Histopathological Images via Future-class Awareness and Compatibility-inspired Distillation
- CVPR 2024Infrared Small Target Detection with Scale and Location Sensitivity
- CVPR 2024Jointly Training and Pruning CNNs via Learnable Agent Guidance and Alignment
- CVPR 2024KP-RED: Exploiting Semantic Keypoints for Joint 3D Shape Retrieval and Deformation
- CVPR 2024Leak and Learn: An Attacker's Cookbook to Train Using Leaked Data from Federated Learning
- CVPR 2024Learning to Predict Activity Progress by Self-Supervised Video Alignment
- CVPR 2024Linguistic-Aware Patch Slimming Framework for Fine-grained Cross-Modal Alignment
- CVPR 2024Localization Is All You Evaluate: Data Leakage in Online Mapping Datasets and How to Fix It
- CVPR 2024Looking 3D: Anomaly Detection with 2D-3D Alignment
- CVPR 2024ManiFPT: Defining and Analyzing Fingerprints of Generative Models
- CVPR 2024MCNet: Rethinking the Core Ingredients for Accurate and Efficient Homography Estimation
- CVPR 2024MemFlow: Optical Flow Estimation and Prediction with Memory
- CVPR 2024Memory-Scalable and Simplified Functional Map Learning
- CVPR 2024MLIP: Enhancing Medical Visual Representation with Divergence Encoder and Knowledge-guided Contrastive Learning
- CVPR 2024Mocap Everyone Everywhere: Lightweight Motion Capture With Smartwatches and a Head-Mounted Camera
- CVPR 2024Motion Diversification Networks
- CVPR 2024MRFS: Mutually Reinforcing Image Fusion and Segmentation
- CVPR 2024Multi-Modal Hallucination Control by Visual Information Grounding
- CVPR 2024Neural Implicit Morphing of Face Images
- CVPR 2024Non-Rigid Structure-from-Motion: Temporally-Smooth Procrustean Alignment and Spatially-Variant Deformation Modeling
- CVPR 2024OCAI: Improving Optical Flow Estimation by Occlusion and Consistency Aware Interpolation
- CVPR 2024ODM: A Text-Image Further Alignment Pre-training Approach for Scene Text Detection and Spotting
- CVPR 2024OmniSDF: Scene Reconstruction using Omnidirectional Signed Distance Functions and Adaptive Binoctrees
- CVPR 2024On the Diversity and Realism of Distilled Dataset: An Efficient Dataset Distillation Paradigm
- CVPR 2024Online Task-Free Continual Generative and Discriminative Learning via Dynamic Cluster Memory
- CVPR 2024OrthCaps: An Orthogonal CapsNet with Sparse Attention Routing and Pruning
- CVPR 2024Paint-it: Text-to-Texture Synthesis via Deep Convolutional Texture Map Optimization and Physically-Based Rendering
- CVPR 2024PairDETR : Joint Detection and Association of Human Bodies and Faces
- CVPR 2024Perceptual Assessment and Optimization of HDR Image Rendering
- CVPR 2024PIA: Your Personalized Image Animator via Plug-and-Play Modules in Text-to-Image Models
- CVPR 2024PikeLPN: Mitigating Overlooked Inefficiencies of Low-Precision Neural Networks
- CVPR 2024Producing and Leveraging Online Map Uncertainty in Trajectory Prediction
- CVPR 2024Puff-Net: Efficient Style Transfer with Pure Content and Style Feature Fusion Network
- CVPR 2024Purified and Unified Steganographic Network
- CVPR 2024Real-time Acquisition and Reconstruction of Dynamic Volumes with Neural Structured Illumination
- CVPR 2024Relightable and Animatable Neural Avatar from Sparse-View Video
- CVPR 2024Rethinking Generalizable Face Anti-spoofing via Hierarchical Prototype-guided Distribution Refinement in Hyperbolic Space
- CVPR 2024RLHF-V: Towards Trustworthy MLLMs via Behavior Alignment from Fine-grained Correctional Human Feedback
- CVPR 2024Robust Distillation via Untargeted and Targeted Intermediate Adversarial Samples
- CVPR 2024See Say and Segment: Teaching LMMs to Overcome False Premises
- CVPR 2024Segment and Caption Anything
- CVPR 2024Semantic Shield: Defending Vision-Language Models Against Backdooring and Poisoning via Fine-grained Knowledge Alignment
- CVPR 2024SG-PGM: Partial Graph Matching Network with Semantic Geometric Fusion for 3D Scene Graph Alignment and Its Downstream Tasks
- CVPR 2024SHINOBI: Shape and Illumination using Neural Object Decomposition via BRDF Optimization In-the-wild
- CVPR 2024Siamese Learning with Joint Alignment and Regression for Weakly-Supervised Video Paragraph Grounding
- CVPR 2024Small Steps and Level Sets: Fitting Neural Surface Models with Point Guidance
- CVPR 2024Spectral Meets Spatial: Harmonising 3D Shape Matching and Interpolation
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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.