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

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1401. NeurIPS 2023Thought Cloning: Learning to Think while Acting by Imitating Human Thinking
1402. NeurIPS 2023Three-Way Trade-Off in Multi-Objective Learning: Optimization, Generalization and Conflict-Avoidance
1403. NeurIPS 2023Time-Reversed Dissipation Induces Duality Between Minimizing Gradient Norm and Function Value
1404. NeurIPS 2023Topological Parallax: A Geometric Specification for Deep Perception Models
1405. NeurIPS 2023Topological RANSAC for instance verification and retrieval without fine-tuning
1406. NeurIPS 2023Towards Automated Circuit Discovery for Mechanistic Interpretability
1407. NeurIPS 2023Towards Better Dynamic Graph Learning: New Architecture and Unified Library
1408. NeurIPS 2023Towards Efficient and Accurate Winograd Convolution via Full Quantization
1409. NeurIPS 2023Towards Robust and Expressive Whole-body Human Pose and Shape Estimation
1410. NeurIPS 2023Trajectory Alignment: Understanding the Edge of Stability Phenomenon via Bifurcation Theory
1411. NeurIPS 2023TRIAGE: Characterizing and auditing training data for improved regression
1412. NeurIPS 2023Trust Region-Based Safe Distributional Reinforcement Learning for Multiple Constraints
1413. NeurIPS 2023Tuning Multi-mode Token-level Prompt Alignment across Modalities
1414. NeurIPS 2023UDC-SIT: A Real-World Dataset for Under-Display Cameras
1415. NeurIPS 2023Unbiased Compression Saves Communication in Distributed Optimization: When and How Much?
1416. NeurIPS 2023Understanding and Mitigating Copying in Diffusion Models
1417. NeurIPS 2023Understanding Multi-phase Optimization Dynamics and Rich Nonlinear Behaviors of ReLU Networks
1418. NeurIPS 2023Unlocking Feature Visualization for Deep Network with MAgnitude Constrained Optimization
1419. NeurIPS 2023VisAlign: Dataset for Measuring the Alignment between AI and Humans in Visual Perception
1420. NeurIPS 2023What You See is What You Read? Improving Text-Image Alignment Evaluation
1421. NeurIPS 2023Worst-case Performance of Popular Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search Implementations: Guarantees and Limitations

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.