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

1,882 papers, page 32 of 38

1551. NeurIPS 2026Fast Alignment of Embeddings: Computational Guarantees for Anisotropic Procrustes-Wasserstein
1552. NeurIPS 2026Fast and Consistent Structure Learning in Graphical Models via Approximate Cross-Validation
1553. NeurIPS 2026Fast and slow gradient descent dynamics of logistic regression through weak alignment
1554. NeurIPS 2026Fast Approximate $\ell_p$ Chamfer Distance via Lopsided Embeddings and Structured JL
1555. NeurIPS 2026Fault Tolerance in Transformers Favors Output Alignment over Hidden-State Consistency
1556. NeurIPS 2026Fed-AGA: An Anchor Graph Alignment Framework for Federated Unaligned Multi-view Clustering
1557. NeurIPS 2026Federate the Router: Learning Language Model Routers with Sparse and Decentralized Evaluations
1558. NeurIPS 2026Feeling of Knowing in Large Language Models
1559. NeurIPS 2026Few-Shot Truly Benign DPO Attack for Jailbreaking LLMs
1560. NeurIPS 2026Fill the GAP: A Granular Alignment Paradigm for Visual Reasoning in Multimodal Large Language Models
1561. NeurIPS 2026Fine-tuning Does Not Reach All: Uneven Safety and Knowledge Dynamics in Language Models
1562. NeurIPS 2026FiTS: Interpretable Spiking Neurons via Frequency Selectivity and Temporal Shaping
1563. NeurIPS 2026FLIP: Fast and Accurate Global Lipschitz Estimation for Large Feedforward Networks
1564. NeurIPS 2026FOAM: Factored One-sided Adam-Moment for Practical and Scalable SOAP
1565. NeurIPS 2026FocusBranch: Combinatorial Branch-and-Bound for $\ell_0$ Neural Network Robustness Verification
1566. NeurIPS 2026Forest-Guided Semantic Transport for Label-Supervised Manifold Alignment
1567. NeurIPS 2026From Density Matrices to Phase Transitions in Deep Learning: Spectral Early Warnings and Interpretability
1568. NeurIPS 2026From Inexact Gradients to Byzantine Robustness: Acceleration and Optimization under Similarity
1569. NeurIPS 2026From Isolated feature to Orbits:\\Discovering Music Concepts via Multi-SAE Alignment
1570. NeurIPS 2026From Solver Trajectories to Teaching Trajectories: Cognition-Aligned Reasoning Distillation
1571. NeurIPS 2026From Squeezing to Grounding: Visual Guided DPO for Multimodal Hallucination Mitigation
1572. NeurIPS 2026Gated DeltaNet-2: Decoupling Erase and Write in Linear Attention
1573. NeurIPS 2026GCD: Correcting Hidden-State Bias in Off-Policy Agentic RL
1574. NeurIPS 2026GEAR-Align: Grounding-Evidence-Aware Gradient Routing for Multimodal Alignment
1575. NeurIPS 2026GEM: Interpretable Language Models via Geometric Embedding Alignment
1576. NeurIPS 2026Generalized Adaptive Boosting and the Geometry of Mistakes
1577. NeurIPS 2026Geometric Alignment without Functional Equivalence: A Layer-wise Analysis of the Speech-Text Modality Gap
1578. NeurIPS 2026Geometry-Aware Directional Alignment for Coherent Model Merging
1579. NeurIPS 2026Geometry-Aware Optimal Transport: Fast Intrinsic Dimension and Wasserstein Distance Estimation
1580. NeurIPS 2026Ghosted Layers: Unconstrained Activation Alignment for Recovering Layer-Pruned LLMs
1581. NeurIPS 2026Gradient Descent on Two ReLU Neurons: Global Landscape and Bifurcation Dynamics
1582. NeurIPS 2026Gradient Descent’s Last Iterate is Often (slightly) Suboptimal
1583. NeurIPS 2026GradShield: Alignment Preserving Finetuning
1584. NeurIPS 2026GradTrack: Detecting Noisy Labels via Temporal Trajectories of Class-wise Gradient Misalignment
1585. NeurIPS 2026Graph Label Alignment: A Diagnostic Atlas for Graph Classification
1586. NeurIPS 2026Graph Learning Should Move Beyond Restrictive Views of Spectral and Message-Passing GNNs
1587. NeurIPS 2026Greedy Alignment Principle for Optimizer Selection
1588. NeurIPS 2026GT-HarmBench: Benchmarking AI Safety Risks Through the Lens of Game Theory
1589. NeurIPS 2026Guaranteed Jailbreaking Defense via Disrupt-and-Rectify Smoothing
1590. NeurIPS 2026Hallucination-Guided Unlearning: Using Hallucination Traces to Reveal Overfitted Memories
1591. NeurIPS 2026HARC: Coupling Harmfulness and Refusal Capabilities for Robust Safety Alignment
1592. NeurIPS 2026Harnessing Textual Refusal Directions for Multimodal Safety
1593. NeurIPS 2026HelpBench: Assessing the Ability of LLMs to Provide Privacy, Safety, and Security Advice
1594. NeurIPS 2026Hierarchical Cross-Class Part Alignment for Prototypical Part Networks via Hyperbolic Entailment
1595. NeurIPS 2026Hierarchical Graph Alignment for Cross-Modal 3D Scene Grounding
1596. NeurIPS 2026HoloGene: Learning to Lift Sliced Spatial Transcriptomics to Holistic 3D Gene Fields
1597. NeurIPS 2026Hyper Input Convex Neural Networks for Shape Constrained Learning and Optimal Transport
1598. NeurIPS 2026Hyperagents
1599. NeurIPS 2026Identification and Bounding of Joint Expectation over Potential Outcomes
1600. NeurIPS 2026Improved State Mixing in Higher-order and Block Diagonal Linear Recurrent Networks

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.