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

1,363 papers, page 26 of 28

  1. NeurIPS 2025Robust LLM Alignment via Distributionally Robust Direct Preference Optimization
  2. NeurIPS 2025RPG360: Robust 360 Depth Estimation with Perspective Foundation Models and Graph Optimization
  3. NeurIPS 2025RSafe: Incentivizing proactive reasoning to build robust and adaptive LLM safeguards
  4. NeurIPS 2025SAD Neural Networks: Divergent Gradient Flows and Asymptotic Optimality via o-minimal Structures
  5. NeurIPS 2025Safe RLHF-V: Safe Reinforcement Learning from Multi-modal Human Feedback
  6. NeurIPS 2025Safe-Sora: Safe Text-to-Video Generation via Graphical Watermarking
  7. NeurIPS 2025SAFEPATH: Preventing Harmful Reasoning in Chain-of-Thought via Early Alignment
  8. NeurIPS 2025SafePTR: Token-Level Jailbreak Defense in Multimodal LLMs via Prune-then-Restore Mechanism
  9. NeurIPS 2025Safety Depth in Large Language Models: A Markov Chain Perspective
  10. NeurIPS 2025Safety Pretraining: Toward the Next Generation of Safe AI
  11. NeurIPS 2025SafeVid: Toward Safety Aligned Video Large Multimodal Models
  12. NeurIPS 2025SafeVLA: Towards Safety Alignment of Vision-Language-Action Model via Constrained Learning
  13. NeurIPS 2025SAFEx: Analyzing Vulnerabilities of MoE-Based LLMs via Stable Safety-critical Expert Identification
  14. NeurIPS 2025SAGE-Eval: Evaluating LLMs for Systematic Generalizations of Safety Facts
  15. NeurIPS 2025Scalable Cross-View Sample Alignment for Multi-View Clustering with View Structure Similarity
  16. NeurIPS 2025Scalable Valuation of Human Feedback through Provably Robust Model Alignment
  17. NeurIPS 2025Scaling and context steer LLMs along the same computational path as the human brain
  18. NeurIPS 2025Scaling Laws For Scalable Oversight
  19. NeurIPS 2025Scaling Unlocks Broader Generation and Deeper Functional Understanding of Proteins
  20. NeurIPS 2025SceneForge: Enhancing 3D-text alignment with Structured Scene Compositions
  21. NeurIPS 2025scMRDR: A scalable and flexible framework for unpaired single-cell multi-omics data integration
  22. NeurIPS 2025SECA: Semantically Equivalent and Coherent Attacks for Eliciting LLM Hallucinations
  23. NeurIPS 2025Securing the Language of Life: Inheritable Watermarks from DNA Language Models to Proteins
  24. NeurIPS 2025Security Challenges in AI Agent Deployment: Insights from a Large Scale Public Competition
  25. NeurIPS 2025Seeing Sound, Hearing Sight: Uncovering Modality Bias and Conflict of AI models in Sound Localization
  26. NeurIPS 2025Self-alignment of Large Video Language Models with Refined Regularized Preference Optimization
  27. NeurIPS 2025Self-Supervised Direct Preference Optimization for Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
  28. NeurIPS 2025Semantic-guided Diverse Decoding for Large Language Model
  29. NeurIPS 2025Shape it Up! Restoring LLM Safety during Finetuning
  30. NeurIPS 2025Sharp Analysis for KL-Regularized Contextual Bandits and RLHF
  31. NeurIPS 2025Shortcut Features as Top Eigenfunctions of NTK: A Linear Neural Network Case and More
  32. NeurIPS 2025Simple and Efficient Heterogeneous Temporal Graph Neural Network
  33. NeurIPS 2025Simplicity Prevails: Rethinking Negative Preference Optimization for LLM Unlearning
  34. NeurIPS 2025SIU3R: Simultaneous Scene Understanding and 3D Reconstruction Beyond Feature Alignment
  35. NeurIPS 2025SkyLadder: Better and Faster Pretraining via Context Window Scheduling
  36. NeurIPS 2025SoPo: Text-to-Motion Generation Using Semi-Online Preference Optimization
  37. NeurIPS 2025Sparse Autoencoders Learn Monosemantic Features in Vision-Language Models
  38. NeurIPS 2025Sparta Alignment: Collectively Aligning Multiple Language Models through Combat
  39. NeurIPS 2025Spectral Analysis of Representational Similarity with Limited Neurons
  40. NeurIPS 2025Spectral Graph Coarsening Using Inner Product Preservation and the Grassmann Manifold
  41. NeurIPS 2025Speculate Deep and Accurate: Lossless and Training-Free Acceleration for Offloaded LLMs via Substitute Speculative Decoding
  42. NeurIPS 2025Stability and Sharper Risk Bounds with Convergence Rate $\tilde{O}(1/n^2)$
  43. NeurIPS 2025Stable Matching with Ties: Approximation Ratios and Learning
  44. NeurIPS 2025Stackelberg Self-Annotation: A Robust Approach to Data-Efficient LLM Alignment
  45. NeurIPS 2025Stochastic Regret Guarantees for Online Zeroth- and First-Order Bilevel Optimization
  46. NeurIPS 2025Stop the Nonconsensual Use of Nude Images in Research
  47. NeurIPS 2025Storyboard-guided Alignment for Fine-grained Video Action Recognition
  48. NeurIPS 2025Strassen Attention, Split VC Dimension and Compositionality in Transformers
  49. NeurIPS 2025Strategyproof Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback
  50. NeurIPS 2025STRIDER: Navigation via Instruction-Aligned Structural Decision Space Optimization

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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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