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 38 of 38

1851. NeurIPS 2026Two-Level Softmax Sampling Done Right: Correcting Bias from Size Imbalance and Dispersion
1852. NeurIPS 2026Ultra-DPO: Reimagining LLM Alignment as a Semi-Supervised Task
1853. NeurIPS 2026Uncovering Hidden Propensities in Language Models via Limited-Parameter Finetuning
1854. NeurIPS 2026Uncovering the latent structure of interwoven population and temporal codes
1855. NeurIPS 2026Understanding and Mitigating Under-Confidence in GNNs from the Final Layer
1856. NeurIPS 2026Uniform Spectral Growth under Factor-wise Muon Orthogonalization in Matrix Factorization and LoRA
1857. NeurIPS 2026Uniform Stability and Generalization Error of GD and SGD on Fixed-Point Parameters
1858. NeurIPS 2026Unifying Sparsity and Discreteness: One-Shot Pruning for Quantized LLMs via Discrete Optimization
1859. NeurIPS 2026Unpaired Canonical Correlation Analysis
1860. NeurIPS 2026UpSafe℃: Upcycling for Controllable Safety in Large Language Models
1861. NeurIPS 2026Value Entanglement: Conflation Between Different Kinds of Good In (Some) Large Language Models
1862. NeurIPS 2026Values Are Not Single Labels: Distributional Value Profiling Across Groups and Contexts
1863. NeurIPS 2026Visual Robustness and Neural Alignment in a Shared Foraging Task: The Mouse vs. AI Benchmark
1864. NeurIPS 2026Watermarking Without Standards Is Not AI Governance
1865. NeurIPS 2026Weird Generalization from Narrow Finetuning: Persona Shifts and Inductive Backdoors
1866. NeurIPS 2026Welfare, Improvability, and Variance: A Principal-Agent Approach to Optimal Benchmark Item Aggregation
1867. NeurIPS 2026What Can Labels Alone Audit and Edit in Frozen Representations?
1868. NeurIPS 2026What Does the Brain See? Multiview Neural Representation to Demystify the Brain-Visual Alignment
1869. NeurIPS 2026What Stops SGD on LLM Pre-Training: The Need for Large Learning Rate and How to Achieve it
1870. NeurIPS 2026When Alignment Fails: Stabilizing Cross-Dynamics RL with Prototype Trust Regions
1871. NeurIPS 2026When and Why SignSGD Outperforms SGD: A Theoretical Study Based on $\ell_1$-norm Lower Bounds
1872. NeurIPS 2026When do Prophets Profit in Prediction Markets?
1873. NeurIPS 2026When Empathy Misses the Goal: A Benchmark for Goal Displacement in LLM Advice
1874. NeurIPS 2026When Helpfulness Becomes Sycophancy: Sycophancy is a Boundary Failure Between Social Alignment and Epistemic Integrity in Large Language Models
1875. NeurIPS 2026When Must AI Training Stage Checkpoints? A Distributional Model of Durability Boundaries at Scale
1876. NeurIPS 2026When Policy Entropy Constraint Fails: Preserving Diversity in Flow-based RLHF via Perceptual Entropy
1877. NeurIPS 2026When Safety Becomes An Outlier: Understanding the Retention of LLM Safety Behaviors
1878. NeurIPS 2026Which Pairs Should We Compare for DPO?
1879. NeurIPS 2026Why Do DiT Editors Drift? Plug-and-Play Low Frequency Alignment in VAE Latent Space
1880. NeurIPS 2026Why Invariance is Not Enough for Biomedical Domain Generalization and How to Fix It
1881. NeurIPS 2026Words That Make Language Models Perceive
1882. NeurIPS 2026XL-SafetyBench: A Country-Grounded Cross-Cultural Benchmark for LLM Safety and Cultural Sensitivity

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.