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

455 papers, page 3 of 10

101. NeurIPS 2025Deep Value Benchmark: Measuring Whether Models Generalize Deep values or Shallow Preferences
102. NeurIPS 2025DeepKD: A Deeply Decoupled and Denoised Knowledge Distillation Trainer
103. NeurIPS 2025Delta Attention: Fast and Accurate Sparse Attention Inference by Delta Correction
104. NeurIPS 2025DenseDPO: Fine-Grained Temporal Preference Optimization for Video Diffusion Models
105. NeurIPS 2025Differentiable Sparsity via $D$-Gating: Simple and Versatile Structured Penalization
106. NeurIPS 2025Diffusion Model as a Noise-Aware Latent Reward Model for Step-Level Preference Optimization
107. NeurIPS 2025Diffusion Tree Sampling: Scalable inference‑time alignment of diffusion models
108. NeurIPS 2025Diffusion-Classifier Synergy: Reward-Aligned Learning via Mutual Boosting Loop for FSCIL
109. NeurIPS 2025Dimensional Collapse in VQVAEs: Evidence and Remedies
110. NeurIPS 2025Dimensionality Mismatch Between Brains and Artificial Neural Networks
111. NeurIPS 2025Direct Alignment with Heterogeneous Preferences
112. NeurIPS 2025Directed-Tokens: A Robust Multi-Modality Alignment Approach to Large Language-Vision Models
113. NeurIPS 2025Distillation Robustifies Unlearning
114. NeurIPS 2025Distortion of AI Alignment: Does Preference Optimization Optimize for Preferences?
115. NeurIPS 2025Distributional LLM-as-a-Judge
116. NeurIPS 2025Distributive Fairness in Large Language Models: Evaluating Alignment with Human Values
117. NeurIPS 2025DNAEdit: Direct Noise Alignment for Text-Guided Rectified Flow Editing
118. NeurIPS 2025Do LVLMs Truly Understand Video Anomalies? Revealing Hallucination via Co-Occurrence Patterns
119. NeurIPS 2025Doctor Approved: Generating Medically Accurate Skin Disease Images through AI-Expert Feedback
120. NeurIPS 2025Don’t Forget the Enjoin: FocalLoRA for Instruction Hierarchical Alignment in Large Language Models
121. NeurIPS 2025Doubly Robust Alignment for Large Language Models
122. NeurIPS 2025DP²O-SR: Direct Perceptual Preference Optimization for Real-World Image Super-Resolution
123. NeurIPS 2025DriveDPO: Policy Learning via Safety DPO For End-to-End Autonomous Driving
124. NeurIPS 2025DSAS: A Universal Plug-and-Play Framework for Attention Optimization in Multi-Document Question Answering
125. NeurIPS 2025Dual Alignment Framework for Few-shot Learning with Inter-Set and Intra-Set Shifts
126. NeurIPS 2025Dual Data Alignment Makes AI-Generated Image Detector Easier Generalizable
127. NeurIPS 2025DualOptim: Enhancing Efficacy and Stability in Machine Unlearning with Dual Optimizers
128. NeurIPS 2025Dynamic Diameter in High-Dimensions against Adaptive Adversary and Beyond
129. NeurIPS 2025Dynamic Risk Assessments for Offensive Cybersecurity Agents
130. NeurIPS 2025Dynamical Decoupling of Generalization and Overfitting in Large Two-Layer Networks
131. NeurIPS 2025Efficient and Generalizable Mixed-Precision Quantization via Topological Entropy
132. NeurIPS 2025Efficient and Near-Optimal Algorithm for Contextual Dueling Bandits with Offline Regression Oracles
133. NeurIPS 2025Efficient Preference-Based Reinforcement Learning: Randomized Exploration meets Experimental Design
134. NeurIPS 2025Elastic Robust Unlearning of Specific Knowledge in Large Language Models
135. NeurIPS 2025ElliCE: Efficient and Provably Robust Algorithmic Recourse via the Rashomon Sets
136. NeurIPS 2025Embracing Contradiction: Theoretical Inconsistency Will Not Impede the Road of Building Responsible AI Systems
137. NeurIPS 2025Enhancing CLIP Robustness via Cross-Modality Alignment
138. NeurIPS 2025Enhancing Diffusion-based Unrestricted Adversarial Attacks via Adversary Preferences Alignment
139. NeurIPS 2025Enhancing Safety in Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback via Rectified Policy Optimization
140. NeurIPS 2025EraseFlow: Learning Concept Erasure Policies via GFlowNet-Driven Alignment
141. NeurIPS 2025Erasing Conceptual Knowledge from Language Models
142. NeurIPS 2025Error Broadcast and Decorrelation as a Potential Artificial and Natural Learning Mechanism
143. NeurIPS 2025ErrorTrace: A Black-Box Traceability Mechanism Based on Model Family Error Space
144. NeurIPS 2025ESCA: Enabling Seamless Codec Avatar Execution through Algorithm and Hardware Co-Optimization for Virtual Reality
145. NeurIPS 2025EVOREFUSE: Evolutionary Prompt Optimization for Evaluation and Mitigation of LLM Over-Refusal to Pseudo-Malicious Instructions
146. NeurIPS 2025Explainable Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback to Improve Alignment
147. NeurIPS 2025Explaining and Mitigating Crosslingual Tokenizer Inequities
148. NeurIPS 2025Explaining the Law of Supply and Demand via Online Learning
149. NeurIPS 2025Exploring Data Scaling Trends and Effects in Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback
150. NeurIPS 2025Fact-R1: Towards Explainable Video Misinformation Detection with Deep Reasoning

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.