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

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  1. ICLR 2023One-Pixel Shortcut: On the Learning Preference of Deep Neural Networks
  2. ICLR 2023Ordered GNN: Ordering Message Passing to Deal with Heterophily and Over-smoothing
  3. ICLR 2023Partial Label Unsupervised Domain Adaptation with Class-Prototype Alignment
  4. ICLR 2023PASHA: Efficient HPO and NAS with Progressive Resource Allocation
  5. ICLR 2023Personalized Federated Learning with Feature Alignment and Classifier Collaboration
  6. ICLR 2023PiFold: Toward effective and efficient protein inverse folding
  7. ICLR 2023Quantifying and Mitigating the Impact of Label Errors on Model Disparity Metrics
  8. ICLR 2023Relative Behavioral Attributes: Filling the Gap between Symbolic Goal Specification and Reward Learning from Human Preferences
  9. ICLR 2023Reliability of CKA as a Similarity Measure in Deep Learning
  10. ICLR 2023Restricted Strong Convexity of Deep Learning Models with Smooth Activations
  11. ICLR 2023Safe Exploration Incurs Nearly No Additional Sample Complexity for Reward-Free RL
  12. ICLR 2023Safe Reinforcement Learning From Pixels Using a Stochastic Latent Representation
  13. ICLR 2023Scalable and Equivariant Spherical CNNs by Discrete-Continuous (DISCO) Convolutions
  14. ICLR 2023Semi-Parametric Inducing Point Networks and Neural Processes
  15. ICLR 2023Simple and Scalable Nearest Neighbor Machine Translation
  16. ICLR 2023Simple initialization and parametrization of sinusoidal networks via their kernel bandwidth
  17. ICLR 2023Simplicial Embeddings in Self-Supervised Learning and Downstream Classification
  18. ICLR 2023Sparse Mixture-of-Experts are Domain Generalizable Learners
  19. ICLR 2023Stochastic Differentially Private and Fair Learning
  20. ICLR 2023Supervision Complexity and its Role in Knowledge Distillation
  21. ICLR 2023Symmetries, Flat Minima, and the Conserved Quantities of Gradient Flow
  22. ICLR 2023SYNC: SAFETY-AWARE NEURAL CONTROL FOR STABILIZING STOCHASTIC DELAY-DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
  23. ICLR 2023TANGOS: Regularizing Tabular Neural Networks through Gradient Orthogonalization and Specialization
  24. ICLR 2023Targeted Hyperparameter Optimization with Lexicographic Preferences Over Multiple Objectives
  25. ICLR 2023Task Ambiguity in Humans and Language Models
  26. ICLR 2023TempCLR: Temporal Alignment Representation with Contrastive Learning
  27. ICLR 2023Thalamus: a brain-inspired algorithm for biologically-plausible continual learning and disentangled representations
  28. ICLR 2023Towards One-shot Neural Combinatorial Solvers: Theoretical and Empirical Notes on the Cardinality-Constrained Case
  29. ICLR 2023Towards Understanding and Mitigating Dimensional Collapse in Heterogeneous Federated Learning
  30. ICLR 2023Towards Understanding Ensemble, Knowledge Distillation and Self-Distillation in Deep Learning
  31. ICLR 2023Training language models to summarize narratives improves brain alignment
  32. ICLR 2023Understanding Influence Functions and Datamodels via Harmonic Analysis
  33. ICLR 2023Unified Detoxifying and Debiasing in Language Generation via Inference-time Adaptive Optimization
  34. ICLR 2023Unsupervised Manifold Alignment with Joint Multidimensional Scaling
  35. ICLR 2023Voxurf: Voxel-based Efficient and Accurate Neural Surface Reconstruction
  36. ICLR 2023What Is Missing in IRM Training and Evaluation? Challenges and Solutions
  37. ICLR 2023When to Make and Break Commitments?
  38. ICLR 2023Where to Begin? On the Impact of Pre-Training and Initialization in Federated Learning
  39. ICLR 2023Why (and When) does Local SGD Generalize Better than SGD?

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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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