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
1,421 papers, page 20 of 29
- NeurIPS 2024AgentPoison: Red-teaming LLM Agents via Poisoning Memory or Knowledge Bases
- NeurIPS 2024AHA: Human-Assisted Out-of-Distribution Generalization and Detection
- NeurIPS 2024ALI-Agent: Assessing LLMs' Alignment with Human Values via Agent-based Evaluation
- NeurIPS 2024Aligner-Encoders: Self-Attention Transformers Can Be Self-Transducers
- NeurIPS 2024Aligner: Efficient Alignment by Learning to Correct
- NeurIPS 2024Aligning Embeddings and Geometric Random Graphs: Informational Results and Computational Approaches for the Procrustes-Wasserstein Problem
- NeurIPS 2024Aligning Large Language Models with Representation Editing: A Control Perspective
- NeurIPS 2024Aligning Model Properties via Conformal Risk Control
- NeurIPS 2024Aligning to Thousands of Preferences via System Message Generalization
- NeurIPS 2024Alignment at Pre-training! Towards Native Alignment for Arabic LLMs
- NeurIPS 2024Alignment for Honesty
- NeurIPS 2024Antigen-Specific Antibody Design via Direct Energy-based Preference Optimization
- NeurIPS 2024ART: Automatic Red-teaming for Text-to-Image Models to Protect Benign Users
- NeurIPS 2024Ask, Attend, Attack: An Effective Decision-Based Black-Box Targeted Attack for Image-to-Text Models
- NeurIPS 2024Axioms for AI Alignment from Human Feedback
- NeurIPS 2024BackdoorAlign: Mitigating Fine-tuning based Jailbreak Attack with Backdoor Enhanced Safety Alignment
- NeurIPS 2024BAN: Detecting Backdoors Activated by Adversarial Neuron Noise
- NeurIPS 2024Bayesian-guided Label Mapping for Visual Reprogramming
- NeurIPS 2024Benchmarking PtO and PnO Methods in the Predictive Combinatorial Optimization Regime
- NeurIPS 2024Beware of Road Markings: A New Adversarial Patch Attack to Monocular Depth Estimation
- NeurIPS 2024Beyond Slow Signs in High-fidelity Model Extraction
- NeurIPS 2024Bileve: Securing Text Provenance in Large Language Models Against Spoofing with Bi-level Signature
- NeurIPS 2024Biomedical Visual Instruction Tuning with Clinician Preference Alignment
- NeurIPS 2024BoNBoN Alignment for Large Language Models and the Sweetness of Best-of-n Sampling
- NeurIPS 2024Boosting the Potential of Large Language Models with an Intelligent Information Assistant
- NeurIPS 2024Boosting the Transferability of Adversarial Attack on Vision Transformer with Adaptive Token Tuning
- NeurIPS 2024Breaking the False Sense of Security in Backdoor Defense through Re-Activation Attack
- NeurIPS 2024Cal-DPO: Calibrated Direct Preference Optimization for Language Model Alignment
- NeurIPS 2024Calibrated Self-Rewarding Vision Language Models
- NeurIPS 2024Can an AI Agent Safely Run a Government? Existence of Probably Approximately Aligned Policies
- NeurIPS 2024Can Large Language Model Agents Simulate Human Trust Behavior?
- NeurIPS 2024Can Models Learn Skill Composition from Examples?
- NeurIPS 2024Can Simple Averaging Defeat Modern Watermarks?
- NeurIPS 2024Can Transformers Smell Like Humans?
- NeurIPS 2024Catastrophic Goodhart: regularizing RLHF with KL divergence does not mitigate heavy-tailed reward misspecification
- NeurIPS 2024CausalDiff: Causality-Inspired Disentanglement via Diffusion Model for Adversarial Defense
- NeurIPS 2024Certified Adversarial Robustness via Randomized $\alpha$-Smoothing for Regression Models
- NeurIPS 2024Certified Robustness for Deep Equilibrium Models via Serialized Random Smoothing
- NeurIPS 2024Chain of Preference Optimization: Improving Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in LLMs
- NeurIPS 2024Classifier Clustering and Feature Alignment for Federated Learning under Distributed Concept Drift
- NeurIPS 2024CLAVE: An Adaptive Framework for Evaluating Values of LLM Generated Responses
- NeurIPS 2024CLIPCEIL: Domain Generalization through CLIP via Channel rEfinement and Image-text aLignment
- NeurIPS 2024CLUES: Collaborative Private-domain High-quality Data Selection for LLMs via Training Dynamics
- NeurIPS 2024CNCA: Toward Customizable and Natural Generation of Adversarial Camouflage for Vehicle Detectors
- NeurIPS 2024Coded Computing for Resilient Distributed Computing: A Learning-Theoretic Framework
- NeurIPS 2024ColJailBreak: Collaborative Generation and Editing for Jailbreaking Text-to-Image Deep Generation
- NeurIPS 2024CoMat: Aligning Text-to-Image Diffusion Model with Image-to-Text Concept Matching
- NeurIPS 2024Confidence Calibration of Classifiers with Many Classes
- NeurIPS 2024Conformal Alignment: Knowing When to Trust Foundation Models with Guarantees
- NeurIPS 2024Conformal Prediction for Class-wise Coverage via Augmented Label Rank Calibration
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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.