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

228 papers, page 3 of 5

101. CVPR 2026LASER Layer-wise Scale Alignment for Training-Free Streaming 4D Reconstruction
102. CVPR 2026LiDAR-to-4DRadar Diffusion Bridge via Cross-Modal Alignment and Translation in Latent
103. CVPR 2026LightMover Generative Light Movement with Color and Intensity Controls
104. CVPR 2026Linguistic Priors for Visual Decoupling Towards Symmetric Vision-Brain Alignment
105. CVPR 2026Linking Modality Isolation in Heterogeneous Collaborative Perception
106. CVPR 2026LiREC-Net A Target-Free and Learning-Based Network for LiDAR RGB and
107. CVPR 2026LLaVAShield Safeguarding Multimodal Multi-Turn Dialogues in Vision-Language Models
108. CVPR 2026Look Before You Fuse 2D-Guided Cross-Modal Alignment for Robust 3D
109. CVPR 2026LVLM-Aided Alignment of Task-Specific Vision Models
110. CVPR 2026Machine Unlearning via Adaptive Gradient Reweighting and Multi-stage Objective Optimization
111. CVPR 2026MapReduce LoRA Advancing the Pareto Front in Multi-Preference Optimization for
112. CVPR 2026MARSS Radar Semantic Segmentation via Modular Attention and State Space
113. CVPR 2026Mask to Align Weight to Disambiguate Reliable Unsupervised Cross-Modal Hashing
114. CVPR 2026MDCS-MoAME Multi-directional Composite Scanning with Mixture of Attention and Mamba
115. CVPR 2026Measure The Feature Universe Topology-based Pseudo Labeling and Gravity Consistency
116. CVPR 2026Mesh-Pro Asynchronous Advantage-guided Ranking Preference Optimization for Artist-style Quadrilateral Mesh
117. CVPR 2026MeteorPred A Meteorological Multimodal Large Model and Dataset for Severe
118. CVPR 2026MetricHMSR Metric Human Mesh and Scene Recovery from Monocular Images
119. CVPR 2026Mind the Generative Details Direct Localized Detail Preference Optimization for
120. CVPR 2026Mirror Illusion Art
121. CVPR 2026MoBind Motion Binding for Fine-Grained IMU-Video Pose Alignment
122. CVPR 2026MoD-DPO Towards Mitigating Cross-modal Hallucinations in Omni LLMs using Modality
123. CVPR 2026MotionCrafter Dense Geometry and Motion Reconstruction with a 4D VAE
124. CVPR 2026MTA Multimodal Task Alignment for BEV Perception and Captioning
125. CVPR 2026Multi-level Causal LLM-based Text-to-Motion Generation with Human Alignment
126. CVPR 2026Multi-speaker Attention Alignment for Multimodal Social Interaction
127. CVPR 2026Multi-View Hierarchical Alignment Learning for Spatial Transcriptomics
128. CVPR 2026MultiCrafter High-Fidelity Multi-Subject Generation via Disentangled Attention and Identity-Aware Preference
129. CVPR 2026Muses Designing Composing Generating Nonexistent Fantasy 3D Creatures without Training
130. CVPR 2026Neuro-Cognitive Reward Modeling for Human-Centered Autonomous Vehicle Control
131. CVPR 2026NOWA Null-space Optical Watermark for Invisible Capture Fingerprinting and Tamper
132. CVPR 2026Omni-Supervised Motion Editing Balancing Change and Invariance through Positive-Negative Learning
133. CVPR 2026OmniFM Toward Modality-Robust and Task-Agnostic Federated Learning for Heterogeneous Medical
134. CVPR 2026One-to-All Animation Alignment-Free Character Animation and Image Pose Transfer
135. CVPR 2026OSPO Object-Centric Self-Improving Preference Optimization for Text-to-Image Generation
136. CVPR 2026PAUL Uncertainty-Guided Partition and Augmentation for Robust Cross-View Geo-Localization under
137. CVPR 2026phi-DPO Fairness Direct Preference Optimization Approach to Continual Learning in
138. CVPR 2026Phrase-grounded APO for Improving Chest X-ray Report Generation
139. CVPR 2026PhysGM Large Physical Gaussian Model for Feed-Forward 4D Synthesis
140. CVPR 2026POGA Paraphrased and Oppositional Graph Alignment for Fine-Grained Cross-Modal Retrieval
141. CVPR 2026Pointer-CAD Unifying B-Rep and Command Sequences via Pointer-based Edges
142. CVPR 2026Preference-Aligned LoRA Merging Preserving Subspace Coverage and Addressing Directional Anisotropy
143. CVPR 2026PrivSynth Alternating and Control-Based Optimization for Privacy and Utility in
144. CVPR 2026Progressive Multi-cue Alignment for Unaligned RGBT Tracking
145. CVPR 2026Quota-Calibrated Fine-Grained Alignment with Context-Aware Marginals for Text-based Person Retrieval
146. CVPR 2026RealAppiance Let High-fidelity Appliance Assets Controllable and Workable as Aligned
147. CVPR 2026Red-teaming Retrieval-Augmented Diffusion Models via Poisoning Knowledge Bases
148. CVPR 2026Reevaluating the Intra-Modal Misalignment Hypothesis in CLIP
149. CVPR 2026REL-SF4PASS Panoramic Semantic Segmentation with REL Depth Representation and Spherical
150. CVPR 2026ReSAM Refine Requery and Reinforce Self-Prompting Point-Supervised Segmentation for Remote

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.