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 21 of 28

1001. NeurIPS 2025CoT Red-Handed: Stress Testing Chain-of-Thought Monitoring
1002. NeurIPS 2025Counterfactual Reasoning for Steerable Pluralistic Value Alignment of Large Language Models
1003. NeurIPS 2025CPO: Condition Preference Optimization for Controllable Image Generation
1004. NeurIPS 2025CTRL-ALT-DECEIT Sabotage Evaluations for Automated AI R&D
1005. NeurIPS 2025CURE: Concept Unlearning via Orthogonal Representation Editing in Diffusion Models
1006. NeurIPS 2025CVGL: Causal Learning and Geometric Topology
1007. NeurIPS 2025DAPO : Improving Multi-Step Reasoning Abilities of Large Language Models with Direct Advantage-Based Policy Optimization
1008. NeurIPS 2025Decoupling Contrastive Decoding: Robust Hallucination Mitigation in Multimodal Large Language Models
1009. NeurIPS 2025Deep Value Benchmark: Measuring Whether Models Generalize Deep values or Shallow Preferences
1010. NeurIPS 2025DeepKD: A Deeply Decoupled and Denoised Knowledge Distillation Trainer
1011. NeurIPS 2025Delta Attention: Fast and Accurate Sparse Attention Inference by Delta Correction
1012. NeurIPS 2025DenseDPO: Fine-Grained Temporal Preference Optimization for Video Diffusion Models
1013. NeurIPS 2025Differentiable Sparsity via $D$-Gating: Simple and Versatile Structured Penalization
1014. NeurIPS 2025Diffusion Model as a Noise-Aware Latent Reward Model for Step-Level Preference Optimization
1015. NeurIPS 2025Diffusion Tree Sampling: Scalable inference‑time alignment of diffusion models
1016. NeurIPS 2025Diffusion-Classifier Synergy: Reward-Aligned Learning via Mutual Boosting Loop for FSCIL
1017. NeurIPS 2025Dimensional Collapse in VQVAEs: Evidence and Remedies
1018. NeurIPS 2025Dimensionality Mismatch Between Brains and Artificial Neural Networks
1019. NeurIPS 2025Direct Alignment with Heterogeneous Preferences
1020. NeurIPS 2025Directed-Tokens: A Robust Multi-Modality Alignment Approach to Large Language-Vision Models
1021. NeurIPS 2025Distillation Robustifies Unlearning
1022. NeurIPS 2025Distortion of AI Alignment: Does Preference Optimization Optimize for Preferences?
1023. NeurIPS 2025Distributional LLM-as-a-Judge
1024. NeurIPS 2025Distributive Fairness in Large Language Models: Evaluating Alignment with Human Values
1025. NeurIPS 2025DNAEdit: Direct Noise Alignment for Text-Guided Rectified Flow Editing
1026. NeurIPS 2025Do LVLMs Truly Understand Video Anomalies? Revealing Hallucination via Co-Occurrence Patterns
1027. NeurIPS 2025Doctor Approved: Generating Medically Accurate Skin Disease Images through AI-Expert Feedback
1028. NeurIPS 2025Don’t Forget the Enjoin: FocalLoRA for Instruction Hierarchical Alignment in Large Language Models
1029. NeurIPS 2025Doubly Robust Alignment for Large Language Models
1030. NeurIPS 2025DP²O-SR: Direct Perceptual Preference Optimization for Real-World Image Super-Resolution
1031. NeurIPS 2025DriveDPO: Policy Learning via Safety DPO For End-to-End Autonomous Driving
1032. NeurIPS 2025DSAS: A Universal Plug-and-Play Framework for Attention Optimization in Multi-Document Question Answering
1033. NeurIPS 2025Dual Alignment Framework for Few-shot Learning with Inter-Set and Intra-Set Shifts
1034. NeurIPS 2025Dual Data Alignment Makes AI-Generated Image Detector Easier Generalizable
1035. NeurIPS 2025DualOptim: Enhancing Efficacy and Stability in Machine Unlearning with Dual Optimizers
1036. NeurIPS 2025Dynamic Diameter in High-Dimensions against Adaptive Adversary and Beyond
1037. NeurIPS 2025Dynamic Risk Assessments for Offensive Cybersecurity Agents
1038. NeurIPS 2025Dynamical Decoupling of Generalization and Overfitting in Large Two-Layer Networks
1039. NeurIPS 2025Efficient and Generalizable Mixed-Precision Quantization via Topological Entropy
1040. NeurIPS 2025Efficient and Near-Optimal Algorithm for Contextual Dueling Bandits with Offline Regression Oracles
1041. NeurIPS 2025Efficient Preference-Based Reinforcement Learning: Randomized Exploration meets Experimental Design
1042. NeurIPS 2025Elastic Robust Unlearning of Specific Knowledge in Large Language Models
1043. NeurIPS 2025ElliCE: Efficient and Provably Robust Algorithmic Recourse via the Rashomon Sets
1044. NeurIPS 2025Embracing Contradiction: Theoretical Inconsistency Will Not Impede the Road of Building Responsible AI Systems
1045. NeurIPS 2025Enhancing CLIP Robustness via Cross-Modality Alignment
1046. NeurIPS 2025Enhancing Diffusion-based Unrestricted Adversarial Attacks via Adversary Preferences Alignment
1047. NeurIPS 2025Enhancing Safety in Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback via Rectified Policy Optimization
1048. NeurIPS 2025EraseFlow: Learning Concept Erasure Policies via GFlowNet-Driven Alignment
1049. NeurIPS 2025Erasing Conceptual Knowledge from Language Models
1050. NeurIPS 2025Error Broadcast and Decorrelation as a Potential Artificial and Natural Learning Mechanism

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.