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

Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up

All Alignment and Safety papers

1,363 papers, page 28 of 28

  1. NeurIPS 2025Walking the Tightrope: Autonomous Disentangling Beneficial and Detrimental Drifts in Non-Stationary Custom-Tuning
  2. NeurIPS 2025Weak-to-Strong Generalization under Distribution Shifts
  3. NeurIPS 2025WebThinker: Empowering Large Reasoning Models with Deep Research Capability
  4. NeurIPS 2025What Makes a Reward Model a Good Teacher? An Optimization Perspective
  5. NeurIPS 2025What Matters in Data for DPO?
  6. NeurIPS 2025When and how can inexact generative models still sample from the data manifold?
  7. NeurIPS 2025When Do Transformers Outperform Feedforward and Recurrent Networks? A Statistical Perspective
  8. NeurIPS 2025Who Speaks for the Trigger? Dynamic Expert Routing in Backdoored Mixture-of-Experts Transformers
  9. NeurIPS 2025Whose Instructions Count? Resolving Preference Bias in Instruction Fine-Tuning
  10. NeurIPS 2025Whose View of Safety? A Deep DIVE Dataset for Pluralistic Alignment of Text-to-Image Models
  11. NeurIPS 2025Why and How LLMs Hallucinate: Connecting the Dots with Subsequence Associations
  12. NeurIPS 2025Why Do Some Language Models Fake Alignment While Others Don't?
  13. NeurIPS 2025Zooming from Context to Cue: Hierarchical Preference Optimization for Multi-Image MLLMs

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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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