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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151. CVPR 2026Rethinking Cross-Modal Anchor Alignment for Mitigating Error Accumulation
152. CVPR 2026Rethinking SNN Online Training and Deployment Gradient-Coherent Learning via Hybrid-Driven
153. CVPR 2026Revisiting Learning with Noisy Labels Active Forgetting and Noise Suppression
154. CVPR 2026Revisiting Unknowns Towards Effective and Efficient Open-Set Active Learning
155. CVPR 2026Reward Sharpness-Aware Fine-Tuning for Diffusion Models
156. CVPR 2026RGB-Event based Pedestrian Attribute Recognition A Benchmark Dataset and An
157. CVPR 2026RINO Rotation-Invariant Non-Rigid Correspondences
158. CVPR 2026Robo-SGG Exploiting Layout-Oriented Normalization and Restitution Can Improve Robust Scene
159. CVPR 2026RoboTAG End-to-end Robot Pose Estimation via Topological Alignment Graph
160. CVPR 2026SafeGRPO Self-Rewarded Multimodal Safety Alignment via Rule-Governed Policy Optimization
161. CVPR 2026SAIL Similarity-Aware Guidance and Inter-Caption Augmentation-based Learning for Weakly-Supervised Dense
162. CVPR 2026SAR2Net Learning Spatially Anchored Representations for Retrieval-Guided Cross-Stain Alignment
163. CVPR 2026SAVA-X Ego-to-Exo Imitation Error Detection via Scene-Adaptive View Alignment and
164. CVPR 2026SEA-Flow3D Simplified Efficient and Accurate Scene Flow via Spatial Vector
165. CVPR 2026Seeing Both Sides Towards Bidirectional Semantic Alignment for Open-Vocabulary Camouflaged
166. CVPR 2026Seeing Depth Through Frequency and Motion A Progressive Training Paradigm
167. CVPR 2026Seeing without Pixels Perception from Camera Trajectories
168. CVPR 2026Select Hypothesize and Verify Towards Verified Neuron Concept Interpretation
169. CVPR 2026Selection-as-Nonlinearity Bridging Attention and Activation via a Joint Game-Decision Lens
170. CVPR 2026SemiGDA Generative Dual-distribution Alignment for Semi-Supervised Medical Image Segmentation
171. CVPR 2026SHOW3D Capturing Scenes of 3D Hands and Objects in the
172. CVPR 2026SketchAssist A Practical Assistant for Semantic Edits and Precise Local
173. CVPR 2026SMAP Semantic Route Planning with Map-Grounded Multimodal Alignment
174. CVPR 2026SMRABooth Subject and Motion Representation Alignment for Customized Video Generation
175. CVPR 2026SPAN Spatial-Projection Alignment for Monocular 3D Object Detection
176. CVPR 2026SPARROW Learning Spatial Precision and Temporal Referential Consistency in Pixel-Grounded
177. CVPR 2026Splat-Based Metal Artifact Reduction in Cone-Beam CT via Compact Attenuation
178. CVPR 2026SplitFlux Learning to Decouple Content and Style from a Single
179. CVPR 2026SRA 2 Variational Autoencoder Self-Representation Alignment for Efficient Diffusion
180. CVPR 2026Stable Spike Dual Consistency Optimization via Bitwise AND Operations for
181. CVPR 2026Stake the Points Structure-Faithful Instance Unlearning
182. CVPR 2026STCast Adaptive Boundary Alignment for Global and Regional Weather Forecasting
183. CVPR 2026Stealing Split Learning Bottom Models by Recovering Embedding Geometry
184. CVPR 2026StreamReady Learning What to Answer and When in Long Streaming
185. CVPR 2026Style-GRPO Semantic-Aware Preference Optimization for Image Style Transfer Guided by
186. CVPR 2026StyleGallery Training-free and Semantic-aware Personalized Style Transfer from Arbitrary Image
187. CVPR 2026Tackling Alignment Ambiguity in Person Retrieval through Conversational Attribute Mining
188. CVPR 2026TAMER A Tri-Modal Contrastive Alignment and Multi-Scale Embedding Refinement Framework
189. CVPR 2026Taxonomy-Aware Representation Alignment for Hierarchical Visual Recognition with Large Multimodal
190. CVPR 2026TEAR Temporal-aware Automated Red-teaming for Text-to-Video Models
191. CVPR 2026Temporal Imbalance of Positive and Negative Supervision in Class-Incremental Learning
192. CVPR 2026TF-CADE Foreground-Concentrated Text-Video Alignment for Zero-Shot Temporal Action Detection
193. CVPR 2026THE MORE THE MERRIER CONTRASTIVE FUSION FOR HIGHER-ORDER MULTIMODAL ALIGNMENT
194. CVPR 2026The Power of Decaying Steps Enhancing Attack Stability and Transferability
195. CVPR 2026Thermal is Always Wild Characterizing and Addressing Challenges in Thermal-Only
196. CVPR 2026Time-Specialized Event-Image Alignment for Blur-to-Video Decomposition
197. CVPR 2026Token Reduction via Local and Global Contexts Optimization for Efficient
198. CVPR 2026Tokenization Allows Multimodal Large Language Models to Understand Generate and
199. CVPR 2026Towards Cross-Modal Preservation Consistency and Alignment for Privacy-Preserving Visible-Infrared Person
200. CVPR 2026Towards Dynamic Modality Alignment in Multimodal Continual Learning

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.