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

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51. CVPR 2026DreamingComics A Story Visualization Pipeline via Subject and Layout Customized
52. CVPR 2026Dual Band Thermal Videography Separating Time-Varying Reflection and Emission Near
53. CVPR 2026Duala Dual-Level Alignment of Subjects and Stimuli for Cross-Subject fMRI
54. CVPR 2026DualReg Dual-Space Filtering and Reinforcement for Rigid Registration
55. CVPR 2026Dynamics-Aware Preference Optimization for Vision-Language Models
56. CVPR 2026DynamicsBoost Dynamic Plausible Video Generation via Annotation-Free Continuation Preference Optimization
57. CVPR 2026Easy2Hard From Partially to Fully Unmatched Modalities as Negative Samples
58. CVPR 2026EReCu Pseudo-label Evolution Fusion and Refinement with Multi-Cue Learning for
59. CVPR 2026Evolving Contextual Safety in Multi-Modal Large Language Models via Inference-Time
60. CVPR 2026Expand and Prune Maximizing Trajectory Diversity for Effective GRPO in
61. CVPR 2026ExPose Reinforcing Video Generation Models for Extreme Pose Estimation
62. CVPR 2026F2HDR Two-Stage HDR Video Reconstruction via Flow Adapter and Physical
63. CVPR 2026FEAT Fashion Editing and Try-On from Any Design
64. CVPR 2026FedAFD Multimodal Federated Learning via Adversarial Fusion and Distillation
65. CVPR 2026FedAlign Differentially Private Distribution Alignment for Non-IID Federated Learning
66. CVPR 2026FedARA Resource-adaptive Low-rank Personalized Federated Learning via Anchor-driven Representation Alignment
67. CVPR 2026FedMOP Achieving Enhanced Privacy and Performance in Federated Learning via
68. CVPR 2026FHAvatar Fast and High-Fidelity Reconstruction of Face-and-Hair Composable 3D Head
69. CVPR 2026FiDeSR High-Fidelity and Detail-Preserving One-Step Diffusion Super-Resolution
70. CVPR 2026Fine-Grained GRPO for Precise Preference Alignment in Flow Models
71. CVPR 2026FINER MLLMs Hallucinate under Fine-grained Negative Queries
72. CVPR 2026FinPercep-RM A Fine-grained Reward Model and Co-evolutionary Curriculum for RL-based
73. CVPR 2026Fixed Anchors Are Not Enough Dynamic Retrieval and Persistent Homology
74. CVPR 2026FlashCap Millisecond-Accurate Human Motion Capture via Flashing LEDs and Event-Based
75. CVPR 2026FORCE Transferable Visual Jailbreaking Attacks via Feature Over-Reliance CorrEction
76. CVPR 2026Fourier Angle Alignment for Oriented Object Detection in Remote Sensing
77. CVPR 2026From Feature Learning to Spectral Basis Learning A Unifying and
78. CVPR 2026FUSER Feed-Forward Multiview 3D Registration Transformer and SE3N Diffusion Refinement
79. CVPR 2026Fusion in Your Way Aligning Image Fusion with Heterogeneous Demands
80. CVPR 2026FusionRegister Every Infrared and Visible Image Fusion Deserves Registration
81. CVPR 2026GDFA Geometry-Driven Federated Unlearning with Directional Task Vector Alignment
82. CVPR 2026GDPO-SR Group Direct Preference Optimization for One-Step Generative Image Super-Resolution
83. CVPR 2026GenBreak Red Teaming Text-to-Image Generation Using Large Language Models
84. CVPR 2026GenHOI Towards Object-Consistent Hand-Object Interaction with Temporally Balanced and Spatially
85. CVPR 2026GlyphPrinter Region-Grouped Direct Preference Optimization for Glyph-Accurate Visual Text Rendering
86. CVPR 2026Gravitation-Driven Semantic Alignment for Text Video Retrieval
87. CVPR 2026Harmonious Parameter Adaptation in Continual Visual Instruction Tuning for Safety-Aligned
88. CVPR 2026HCL-FF Hierarchical and Contrastive Learning for Forward-Forward Algorithm
89. CVPR 2026Hear What You See Video-to-Audio Generation with Diffusion Transformer and
90. CVPR 2026HFedATM Hierarchical Federated Domain Generalization via Optimal Transport and Regularized
91. CVPR 2026Hidden Dangers of Compositional Generation Diagnosing Semantic Safety Failures in
92. CVPR 2026Hidden Monotonicity Explaining Deep Neural Networks via their DC Decomposition
93. CVPR 2026Hyperbolic Gramian Volumes for Multimodal Alignment
94. CVPR 2026InfiniDepth Arbitrary-Resolution and Fine-Grained Depth Estimation with Neural Implicit Fields
95. CVPR 2026Intervention-Aware Multiscale Representation Learning from Imaging Phenomics and Perturbation Transcriptomics
96. CVPR 2026IntroSVG Learning from Rendering Feedback for Text-to-SVG Generation via an
97. CVPR 2026It Takes Two A Duet of Periodicity and Directionality for
98. CVPR 2026JRM Joint Reconstruction Model for Multiple Objects without Alignment
99. CVPR 2026KASALv2 Fully Automatic 3D Rotational Symmetry Classification and Axis Localization
100. CVPR 2026KnowVal A Knowledge-Augmented and Value-Guided Autonomous Driving System

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.