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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101. CVPR 2024SpiderMatch: 3D Shape Matching with Global Optimality and Geometric Consistency
102. CVPR 2024Spike-guided Motion Deblurring with Unknown Modal Spatiotemporal Alignment
103. CVPR 2024SRTube: Video-Language Pre-Training with Action-Centric Video Tube Features and Semantic Role Labeling
104. CVPR 2024Style Blind Domain Generalized Semantic Segmentation via Covariance Alignment and Semantic Consistence Contrastive Learning
105. CVPR 2024Suppress and Rebalance: Towards Generalized Multi-Modal Face Anti-Spoofing
106. CVPR 2024Synergistic Global-space Camera and Human Reconstruction from Videos
107. CVPR 2024SynSP: Synergy of Smoothness and Precision in Pose Sequences Refinement
108. CVPR 2024Targeted Representation Alignment for Open-World Semi-Supervised Learning
109. CVPR 2024Text-conditional Attribute Alignment across Latent Spaces for 3D Controllable Face Image Synthesis
110. CVPR 2024Towards Accurate and Robust Architectures via Neural Architecture Search
111. CVPR 2024Towards HDR and HFR Video from Rolling-Mixed-Bit Spikings
112. CVPR 2024Towards Real-World HDR Video Reconstruction: A Large-Scale Benchmark Dataset and A Two-Stage Alignment Network
113. CVPR 2024TurboSL: Dense Accurate and Fast 3D by Neural Inverse Structured Light
114. CVPR 2024UFORecon: Generalizable Sparse-View Surface Reconstruction from Arbitrary and Unfavorable Sets
115. CVPR 2024Unifying Automatic and Interactive Matting with Pretrained ViTs
116. CVPR 2024Unifying Top-down and Bottom-up Scanpath Prediction Using Transformers
117. CVPR 2024Unlocking the Potential of Prompt-Tuning in Bridging Generalized and Personalized Federated Learning
118. CVPR 2024Using Human Feedback to Fine-tune Diffusion Models without Any Reward Model
119. CVPR 2024Utility-Fairness Trade-Offs and How to Find Them
120. CVPR 2024VAREN: Very Accurate and Realistic Equine Network
121. CVPR 2024VideoCon: Robust Video-Language Alignment via Contrast Captions
122. CVPR 2024VidLA: Video-Language Alignment at Scale
123. CVPR 2024VTQA: Visual Text Question Answering via Entity Alignment and Cross-Media Reasoning
124. CVPR 2024Weakly Misalignment-free Adaptive Feature Alignment for UAVs-based Multimodal Object Detection
125. CVPR 2024When Visual Grounding Meets Gigapixel-level Large-scale Scenes: Benchmark and Approach
126. ICLR 2024#InsTag: Instruction Tagging for Analyzing Supervised Fine-tuning of Large Language Models
127. ICLR 2024A Data-Driven Measure of Relative Uncertainty for Misclassification Detection
128. ICLR 2024A unique M-pattern for micro-expression spotting in long videos
129. ICLR 2024Adversarial Training Should Be Cast as a Non-Zero-Sum Game
130. ICLR 2024Align With Purpose: Optimize Desired Properties in CTC Models with a General Plug-and-Play Framework
131. ICLR 2024Aligning Relational Learning with Lipschitz Fairness
132. ICLR 2024An Analytical Solution to Gauss-Newton Loss for Direct Image Alignment
133. ICLR 2024An Emulator for Fine-tuning Large Language Models using Small Language Models
134. ICLR 2024An Investigation of Representation and Allocation Harms in Contrastive Learning
135. ICLR 2024An Unforgeable Publicly Verifiable Watermark for Large Language Models
136. ICLR 2024ArchLock: Locking DNN Transferability at the Architecture Level with a Zero-Cost Binary Predictor
137. ICLR 2024ARGS: Alignment as Reward-Guided Search
138. ICLR 2024AutoDAN: Generating Stealthy Jailbreak Prompts on Aligned Large Language Models
139. ICLR 2024Backdoor Contrastive Learning via Bi-level Trigger Optimization
140. ICLR 2024BadEdit: Backdooring Large Language Models by Model Editing
141. ICLR 2024Benchmarking and Improving Generator-Validator Consistency of Language Models
142. ICLR 2024Beyond Imitation: Leveraging Fine-grained Quality Signals for Alignment
143. ICLR 2024Beyond Memorization: Violating Privacy via Inference with Large Language Models
144. ICLR 2024Beyond Reverse KL: Generalizing Direct Preference Optimization with Diverse Divergence Constraints
145. ICLR 2024Beyond task performance: evaluating and reducing the flaws of large multimodal models with in-context-learning
146. ICLR 2024Bias Runs Deep: Implicit Reasoning Biases in Persona-Assigned LLMs
147. ICLR 2024Breaking Physical and Linguistic Borders: Multilingual Federated Prompt Tuning for Low-Resource Languages
148. ICLR 2024BRUSLEATTACK: A QUERY-EFFICIENT SCORE- BASED BLACK-BOX SPARSE ADVERSARIAL ATTACK
149. ICLR 2024Butterfly Effects of SGD Noise: Error Amplification in Behavior Cloning and Autoregression
150. ICLR 2024CAS: A Probability-Based Approach for Universal Condition Alignment Score

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.