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

1,363 papers, page 20 of 28

951. NeurIPS 2025Avoiding exp(R) scaling in RLHF through Preference-based Exploration
952. NeurIPS 2025Backdoor Cleaning without External Guidance in MLLM Fine-tuning
953. NeurIPS 2025BackdoorLLM: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Backdoor Attacks and Defenses on Large Language Models
954. NeurIPS 2025Bag of Tricks for Inference-time Computation of LLM Reasoning
955. NeurIPS 2025Balancing Positive and Negative Classification Error Rates in Positive-Unlabeled Learning
956. NeurIPS 2025Bandit and Delayed Feedback in Online Structured Prediction
957. NeurIPS 2025Best-of-N Jailbreaking
958. NeurIPS 2025Better Estimation of the Kullback--Leibler Divergence Between Language Models
959. NeurIPS 2025Beyond Expectations: Quantile-Guided Alignment for Risk-Calibrated Language Models
960. NeurIPS 2025Beyond Oracle: Verifier-Supervision for Instruction Hierarchy in Reasoning and Instruction-Tuned LLMs
961. NeurIPS 2025Beyond Scalars: Concept-Based Alignment Analysis in Vision Transformers
962. NeurIPS 2025Bi-Level Decision-Focused Causal Learning for Large-Scale Marketing Optimization: Bridging Observational and Experimental Data
963. NeurIPS 2025BLEUBERI: BLEU is a surprisingly effective reward for instruction following
964. NeurIPS 2025Boosting Adversarial Transferability with Spatial Adversarial Alignment
965. NeurIPS 2025Brain-tuning Improves Generalizability and Efficiency of Brain Alignment in Speech Models
966. NeurIPS 2025Bridging Crypto with ML-based Solvers: the SAT Formulation and Benchmarks
967. NeurIPS 2025Bridging Human and LLM Judgments: Understanding and Narrowing the Gap
968. NeurIPS 2025Bridging Theory and Practice in Link Representation with Graph Neural Networks
969. NeurIPS 2025Bridging Time and Linguistics: LLMs as Time Series Analyzer through Symbolization and Segmentation
970. NeurIPS 2025C-SafeGen: Certified Safe LLM Generation with Claim-Based Streaming Guardrails
971. NeurIPS 2025Calibrating Translation Decoding with Quality Estimation on LLMs
972. NeurIPS 2025CaliGCL: Calibrated Graph Contrastive Learning via Partitioned Similarity and Consistency Discrimination
973. NeurIPS 2025CALM: Culturally Self-Aware Language Models
974. NeurIPS 2025CAMILA: Context-Aware Masking for Image Editing with Language Alignment
975. NeurIPS 2025Can DPO Learn Diverse Human Values? A Theoretical Scaling Law
976. NeurIPS 2025CARE: Decoding-Time Safety Alignment via Rollback and Introspection Intervention
977. NeurIPS 2025CARES: Comprehensive Evaluation of Safety and Adversarial Robustness in Medical LLMs
978. NeurIPS 2025Certifying Concavity and Monotonicity in Games via Sum-of-Squares Hierarchies
979. NeurIPS 2025Chain-of-Zoom: Extreme Super-Resolution via Scale Autoregression and Preference Alignment
980. NeurIPS 2025Checklists Are Better Than Reward Models For Aligning Language Models
981. NeurIPS 2025Clean First, Align Later: Benchmarking Preference Data Cleaning for Reliable LLM Alignment
982. NeurIPS 2025Clip-and-Verify: Linear Constraint-Driven Domain Clipping for Accelerating Neural Network Verification
983. NeurIPS 2025Closed-Form Training Dynamics Reveal Learned Features and Linear Structure in Word2Vec-like Models
984. NeurIPS 2025Collective Bargaining in the Information Economy Can Address AI-Driven Power Concentration
985. NeurIPS 2025Combinatorial Ski Rental Problem: Robust and Learning-Augmented Algorithms
986. NeurIPS 2025Combining Cost Constrained Runtime Monitors for AI Safety
987. NeurIPS 2025Comparison requires valid measurement: Rethinking attack success rate comparisons in AI red teaming
988. NeurIPS 2025ComPO: Preference Alignment via Comparison Oracles
989. NeurIPS 2025Composition and Alignment of Diffusion Models using Constrained Learning
990. NeurIPS 2025Comprehensive Assessment and Analysis for NSFW Content Erasure in Text-to-Image Diffusion models
991. NeurIPS 2025Compress Large Language Models via Collaboration Between Learning and Matrix Approximation
992. NeurIPS 2025Computation and Memory-Efficient Model Compression with Gradient Reweighting
993. NeurIPS 2025Concentration and excess risk bounds for imbalanced classification with synthetic oversampling
994. NeurIPS 2025Confidence-Aware With Prototype Alignment for Partial Multi-label Learning
995. NeurIPS 2025Conformal Arbitrage: Risk-Controlled Balancing of Competing Objectives in Language Models
996. NeurIPS 2025Connecting Neural Models Latent Geometries with Relative Geodesic Representations
997. NeurIPS 2025Consistent Supervised-Unsupervised Alignment for Generalized Category Discovery
998. NeurIPS 2025Continuity and Isolation Lead to Doubts or Dilemmas in Large Language Models
999. NeurIPS 2025Contrastive Learning with Data Misalignment: Feature Purity, Training Dynamics and Theoretical Generalization Guarantees
1000. NeurIPS 2025CoP: Agentic Red-teaming for Large Language Models using Composition of Principles

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.