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

1,339 papers, page 26 of 27

1251. ICLR 2024ZeRO++: Extremely Efficient Collective Communication for Large Model Training
1252. ICLR 2024Zeroth-Order Optimization Meets Human Feedback: Provable Learning via Ranking Oracles
1253. ICLR 2023$\Lambda$-DARTS: Mitigating Performance Collapse by Harmonizing Operation Selection among Cells
1254. ICLR 2023A Differential Geometric View and Explainability of GNN on Evolving Graphs
1255. ICLR 2023A GNN-Guided Predict-and-Search Framework for Mixed-Integer Linear Programming
1256. ICLR 2023A Holistic View of Label Noise Transition Matrix in Deep Learning and Beyond
1257. ICLR 2023A Message Passing Perspective on Learning Dynamics of Contrastive Learning
1258. ICLR 2023Aligning Model and Macaque Inferior Temporal Cortex Representations Improves Model-to-Human Behavioral Alignment and Adversarial Robustness
1259. ICLR 2023Almost Linear Constant-Factor Sketching for $\ell_1$ and Logistic Regression
1260. ICLR 2023Approximation and non-parametric estimation of functions over high-dimensional spheres via deep ReLU networks
1261. ICLR 2023Arbitrary Virtual Try-on Network: Characteristics Representation and Trade-off between Body and Clothing
1262. ICLR 2023Auto-Encoding Goodness of Fit
1263. ICLR 2023BAYES RISK CTC: CONTROLLABLE CTC ALIGNMENT IN SEQUENCE-TO-SEQUENCE TASKS
1264. ICLR 2023BEEF: Bi-Compatible Class-Incremental Learning via Energy-Based Expansion and Fusion
1265. ICLR 2023Beyond Lipschitz: Sharp Generalization and Excess Risk Bounds for Full-Batch GD
1266. ICLR 2023Capturing the Motion of Every Joint: 3D Human Pose and Shape Estimation with Independent Tokens
1267. ICLR 2023Chasing All-Round Graph Representation Robustness: Model, Training, and Optimization
1268. ICLR 2023Compressing multidimensional weather and climate data into neural networks
1269. ICLR 2023ContraNorm: A Contrastive Learning Perspective on Oversmoothing and Beyond
1270. ICLR 2023DASHA: Distributed Nonconvex Optimization with Communication Compression and Optimal Oracle Complexity
1271. ICLR 2023Deep Declarative Dynamic Time Warping for End-to-End Learning of Alignment Paths
1272. ICLR 2023Deep Learning From Crowdsourced Labels: Coupled Cross-Entropy Minimization, Identifiability, and Regularization
1273. ICLR 2023Discovering Latent Knowledge in Language Models Without Supervision
1274. ICLR 2023Does Learning from Decentralized Non-IID Unlabeled Data Benefit from Self Supervision?
1275. ICLR 2023Draft, Sketch, and Prove: Guiding Formal Theorem Provers with Informal Proofs
1276. ICLR 2023Efficient approximation of neural population structure and correlations with probabilistic circuits
1277. ICLR 2023Empowering Networks With Scale and Rotation Equivariance Using A Similarity Convolution
1278. ICLR 2023Excess Risk of Two-Layer ReLU Neural Networks in Teacher-Student Settings and its Superiority to Kernel Methods
1279. ICLR 2023FaiREE: fair classification with finite-sample and distribution-free guarantee
1280. ICLR 2023Flow Straight and Fast: Learning to Generate and Transfer Data with Rectified Flow
1281. ICLR 2023Fuzzy Alignments in Directed Acyclic Graph for Non-Autoregressive Machine Translation
1282. ICLR 2023Generalization and Estimation Error Bounds for Model-based Neural Networks
1283. ICLR 2023Generalization Bounds for Federated Learning: Fast Rates, Unparticipating Clients and Unbounded Losses
1284. ICLR 2023Generalizing and Decoupling Neural Collapse via Hyperspherical Uniformity Gap
1285. ICLR 2023Git Re-Basin: Merging Models modulo Permutation Symmetries
1286. ICLR 2023How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Retraining
1287. ICLR 2023Human alignment of neural network representations
1288. ICLR 2023Learning without Prejudices: Continual Unbiased Learning via Benign and Malignant Forgetting
1289. ICLR 2023LilNetX: Lightweight Networks with EXtreme Model Compression and Structured Sparsification
1290. ICLR 2023Lower Bounds on the Depth of Integral ReLU Neural Networks via Lattice Polytopes
1291. ICLR 2023Mind the Pool: Convolutional Neural Networks Can Overfit Input Size
1292. ICLR 2023Mind's Eye: Grounded Language Model Reasoning through Simulation
1293. ICLR 2023MPCFORMER: FAST, PERFORMANT AND PRIVATE TRANSFORMER INFERENCE WITH MPC
1294. ICLR 2023Multiple sequence alignment as a sequence-to-sequence learning problem
1295. ICLR 2023Neural Collapse Inspired Feature-Classifier Alignment for Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning
1296. ICLR 2023Noise Is Not the Main Factor Behind the Gap Between Sgd and Adam on Transformers, But Sign Descent Might Be
1297. ICLR 2023On Accelerated Perceptrons and Beyond
1298. ICLR 2023On the Convergence of AdaGrad(Norm) on $\mathbb{R}^d$: Beyond Convexity, Non-Asymptotic Rate and Acceleration
1299. ICLR 2023On the duality between contrastive and non-contrastive self-supervised learning
1300. ICLR 2023On The Inadequacy of Optimizing Alignment and Uniformity in Contrastive Learning of Sentence Representations

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.