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

Papers per year

Papers per venue

Counts by year and venue

Alignment and Safety papers by year and venue
YearNeurIPSICLRICMLCVPRTotal
202313887101112438
2024348156246125875
20254554733001351,363
20264806235512281,882

Representative papers

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All Alignment and Safety papers

1,198 papers, page 23 of 24

  1. ICML 2023A Study on Transformer Configuration and Training Objective
  2. ICML 2023A Theoretical Analysis of the Learning Dynamics under Class Imbalance
  3. ICML 2023abess: A Fast Best-Subset Selection Library in Python and R
  4. ICML 2023Accelerated Infeasibility Detection of Constrained Optimization and Fixed-Point Iterations
  5. ICML 2023Adversarial Classification: Necessary Conditions and Geometric Flows
  6. ICML 2023Aligning Language Models with Preferences through $f$-divergence Minimization
  7. ICML 2023Analysis of Error Feedback in Federated Non-Convex Optimization with Biased Compression: Fast Convergence and Partial Participation
  8. ICML 2023Are Gaussian Data All You Need? The Extents and Limits of Universality in High-Dimensional Generalized Linear Estimation
  9. ICML 2023Are labels informative in semi-supervised learning? Estimating and leveraging the missing-data mechanism.
  10. ICML 2023Bandit Online Linear Optimization with Hints and Queries
  11. ICML 2023Bayesian Neural Networks Avoid Encoding Complex and Perturbation-Sensitive Concepts
  12. ICML 2023Biases in Evaluation of Molecular Optimization Methods and Bias Reduction Strategies
  13. ICML 2023Constrained Optimization via Exact Augmented Lagrangian and Randomized Iterative Sketching
  14. ICML 2023Constrained Phi-Equilibria
  15. ICML 2023Contextual Conservative Interleaving Bandits
  16. ICML 2023Contextual Reliability: When Different Features Matter in Different Contexts
  17. ICML 2023Convex Geometry of ReLU-layers, Injectivity on the Ball and Local Reconstruction
  18. ICML 2023Critical Points and Convergence Analysis of Generative Deep Linear Networks Trained with Bures-Wasserstein Loss
  19. ICML 2023Cut your Losses with Squentropy
  20. ICML 2023Do the Rewards Justify the Means? Measuring Trade-Offs Between Rewards and Ethical Behavior in the Machiavelli Benchmark
  21. ICML 2023DualHSIC: HSIC-Bottleneck and Alignment for Continual Learning
  22. ICML 2023DUET: 2D Structured and Approximately Equivariant Representations
  23. ICML 2023EF21-P and Friends: Improved Theoretical Communication Complexity for Distributed Optimization with Bidirectional Compression
  24. ICML 2023Efficient Sequence Transduction by Jointly Predicting Tokens and Durations
  25. ICML 2023Eliminating Adversarial Noise via Information Discard and Robust Representation Restoration
  26. ICML 2023Expected Gradients of Maxout Networks and Consequences to Parameter Initialization
  27. ICML 2023Explainable Data-Driven Optimization: From Context to Decision and Back Again
  28. ICML 2023FAIRER: Fairness as Decision Rationale Alignment
  29. ICML 2023Fascinating Supervisory Signals and Where to Find Them: Deep Anomaly Detection with Scale Learning
  30. ICML 2023Fast, Differentiable and Sparse Top-k: a Convex Analysis Perspective
  31. ICML 2023Federated Online and Bandit Convex Optimization
  32. ICML 2023Finding Generalization Measures by Contrasting Signal and Noise
  33. ICML 2023Finite-Sample Analysis of Learning High-Dimensional Single ReLU Neuron
  34. ICML 2023Gradient Descent Monotonically Decreases the Sharpness of Gradient Flow Solutions in Scalar Networks and Beyond
  35. ICML 2023Graph Neural Networks with Learnable and Optimal Polynomial Bases
  36. ICML 2023High-Probability Bounds for Stochastic Optimization and Variational Inequalities: the Case of Unbounded Variance
  37. ICML 2023How Powerful are Shallow Neural Networks with Bandlimited Random Weights?
  38. ICML 2023Implicit Jacobian regularization weighted with impurity of probability output
  39. ICML 2023Incentivizing Exploration with Linear Contexts and Combinatorial Actions
  40. ICML 2023Invariance in Policy Optimisation and Partial Identifiability in Reward Learning
  41. ICML 2023Learning Expressive Priors for Generalization and Uncertainty Estimation in Neural Networks
  42. ICML 2023Learning Mixtures of Markov Chains and MDPs
  43. ICML 2023Let's Make Block Coordinate Descent Converge Faster: Faster Greedy Rules, Message-Passing, Active-Set Complexity, and Superlinear Convergence
  44. ICML 2023Maximum Optimality Margin: A Unified Approach for Contextual Linear Programming and Inverse Linear Programming
  45. ICML 2023Meta Optimal Transport
  46. ICML 2023Multi-Agent Online Optimization with Delays: Asynchronicity, Adaptivity, and Optimism
  47. ICML 2023Near-Optimal Cryptographic Hardness of Agnostically Learning Halfspaces and ReLU Regression under Gaussian Marginals
  48. ICML 2023Nearly Optimal Competitive Ratio for Online Allocation Problems with Two-sided Resource Constraints and Finite Requests
  49. ICML 2023Neural Latent Aligner: Cross-trial Alignment for Learning Representations of Complex, Naturalistic Neural Data
  50. ICML 2023Nonparametric Iterative Machine Teaching

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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.

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