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
1,339 papers, page 24 of 27
- ICLR 2024FedImpro: Measuring and Improving Client Update in Federated Learning
- ICLR 2024FedLoGe: Joint Local and Generic Federated Learning under Long-tailed Data
- ICLR 2024Few-Shot Detection of Machine-Generated Text using Style Representations
- ICLR 2024Fine-tuning Aligned Language Models Compromises Safety, Even When Users Do Not Intend To!
- ICLR 2024Fine-Tuning Language Models for Factuality
- ICLR 2024Finetuning Text-to-Image Diffusion Models for Fairness
- ICLR 2024FLASK: Fine-grained Language Model Evaluation based on Alignment Skill Sets
- ICLR 2024Gaining Wisdom from Setbacks: Aligning Large Language Models via Mistake Analysis
- ICLR 2024Generative Judge for Evaluating Alignment
- ICLR 2024GPT-4 Is Too Smart To Be Safe: Stealthy Chat with LLMs via Cipher
- ICLR 2024Group Preference Optimization: Few-Shot Alignment of Large Language Models
- ICLR 2024How to Catch an AI Liar: Lie Detection in Black-Box LLMs by Asking Unrelated Questions
- ICLR 2024Identifying the Risks of LM Agents with an LM-Emulated Sandbox
- ICLR 2024Implicit Neural Representations and the Algebra of Complex Wavelets
- ICLR 2024Improving Generalization of Alignment with Human Preferences through Group Invariant Learning
- ICLR 2024Interventional Fairness on Partially Known Causal Graphs: A Constrained Optimization Approach
- ICLR 2024Jailbreak in pieces: Compositional Adversarial Attacks on Multi-Modal Language Models
- ICLR 2024Language Model Decoding as Direct Metrics Optimization
- ICLR 2024Language Model Inversion
- ICLR 2024Language-Interfaced Tabular Oversampling via Progressive Imputation and Self-Authentication
- ICLR 2024LanguageBind: Extending Video-Language Pretraining to N-modality by Language-based Semantic Alignment
- ICLR 2024Learning From Simplicial Data Based on Random Walks and 1D Convolutions
- ICLR 2024Leftover Lunch: Advantage-based Offline Reinforcement Learning for Language Models
- ICLR 2024Leveraging Generative Models for Unsupervised Alignment of Neural Time Series Data
- ICLR 2024Like Oil and Water: Group Robustness Methods and Poisoning Defenses May Be at Odds
- ICLR 2024LMSYS-Chat-1M: A Large-Scale Real-World LLM Conversation Dataset
- ICLR 2024Making RL with Preference-based Feedback Efficient via Randomization
- ICLR 2024MAP IT to Visualize Representations
- ICLR 2024Masks, Signs, And Learning Rate Rewinding
- ICLR 2024MINT: Evaluating LLMs in Multi-turn Interaction with Tools and Language Feedback
- ICLR 2024Motif: Intrinsic Motivation from Artificial Intelligence Feedback
- ICLR 2024Multilingual Jailbreak Challenges in Large Language Models
- ICLR 2024NEFTune: Noisy Embeddings Improve Instruction Finetuning
- ICLR 2024Network Memory Footprint Compression Through Jointly Learnable Codebooks and Mappings
- ICLR 2024Neuron Activation Coverage: Rethinking Out-of-distribution Detection and Generalization
- ICLR 2024Neuron-Enhanced AutoEncoder Matrix Completion and Collaborative Filtering: Theory and Practice
- ICLR 2024On Bias-Variance Alignment in Deep Models
- ICLR 2024On the Fairness ROAD: Robust Optimization for Adversarial Debiasing
- ICLR 2024On the Generalization and Approximation Capacities of Neural Controlled Differential Equations
- ICLR 2024On the Over-Memorization During Natural, Robust and Catastrophic Overfitting
- ICLR 2024On-Policy Distillation of Language Models: Learning from Self-Generated Mistakes
- ICLR 2024Optimal transport based adversarial patch to leverage large scale attack transferability
- ICLR 2024Overthinking the Truth: Understanding how Language Models Process False Demonstrations
- ICLR 2024PARL: A Unified Framework for Policy Alignment in Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback
- ICLR 2024Plug-and-Play: An Efficient Post-training Pruning Method for Large Language Models
- ICLR 2024Privately Aligning Language Models with Reinforcement Learning
- ICLR 2024Quantifying and Enhancing Multi-modal Robustness with Modality Preference
- ICLR 2024Query-Dependent Prompt Evaluation and Optimization with Offline Inverse RL
- ICLR 2024Quick-Tune: Quickly Learning Which Pretrained Model to Finetune and How
- ICLR 2024RAIN: Your Language Models Can Align Themselves without Finetuning
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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.