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

4,558 papers, page 41 of 92

2001. CVPR 2025Task Preference Optimization: Improving Multimodal Large Language Models with Vision Task Alignment
2002. CVPR 2025Taste More, Taste Better: Diverse Data and Strong Model Boost Semi-Supervised Crowd Counting
2003. CVPR 2025The Scene Language: Representing Scenes with Programs, Words, and Embeddings
2004. CVPR 2025Towards Cost-Effective Learning: A Synergy of Semi-Supervised and Active Learning
2005. CVPR 2025Towards Effective and Sparse Adversarial Attack on Spiking Neural Networks via Breaking Invisible Surrogate Gradients
2006. CVPR 2025Towards Generalizable Trajectory Prediction using Dual-Level Representation Learning and Adaptive Prompting
2007. CVPR 2025Towards Improved Text-Aligned Codebook Learning: Multi-Hierarchical Codebook-Text Alignment with Long Text
2008. CVPR 2025Towards Smart Point-and-Shoot Photography
2009. CVPR 2025Tracktention: Leveraging Point Tracking to Attend Videos Faster and Better
2010. CVPR 2025UMotion: Uncertainty-driven Human Motion Estimation from Inertial and Ultra-wideband Units
2011. CVPR 2025UniAP: Unifying Inter- and Intra-Layer Automatic Parallelism by Mixed Integer Quadratic Programming
2012. CVPR 2025Unified Reconstruction of Static and Dynamic Scenes from Events
2013. CVPR 2025Video-Panda: Parameter-efficient Alignment for Encoder-free Video-Language Models
2014. CVPR 2025VideoComp: Advancing Fine-Grained Compositional and Temporal Alignment in Video-Text Models
2015. CVPR 2025VideoDPO: Omni-Preference Alignment for Video Diffusion Generation
2016. CVPR 2025VinaBench: Benchmark for Faithful and Consistent Visual Narratives
2017. CVPR 2025Visual and Semantic Prompt Collaboration for Generalized Zero-Shot Learning
2018. ICLR 2025$\sigma$-zero: Gradient-based Optimization of $\ell_0$-norm Adversarial Examples
2019. ICLR 2025$R^2$-Guard: Robust Reasoning Enabled LLM Guardrail via Knowledge-Enhanced Logical Reasoning
2020. ICLR 20253D-Properties: Identifying Challenges in DPO and Charting a Path Forward
2021. ICLR 2025A Benchmark for Semantic Sensitive Information in LLMs Outputs
2022. ICLR 2025A Black Swan Hypothesis: The Role of Human Irrationality in AI Safety
2023. ICLR 2025A Closer Look at Machine Unlearning for Large Language Models
2024. ICLR 2025A Common Pitfall of Margin-based Language Model Alignment: Gradient Entanglement
2025. ICLR 2025A Generic Framework for Conformal Fairness
2026. ICLR 2025A Percolation Model of Emergence: Analyzing Transformers Trained on a Formal Language
2027. ICLR 2025A Probabilistic Perspective on Unlearning and Alignment for Large Language Models
2028. ICLR 2025A Simple yet Effective $\Delta\Delta G$ Predictor is An Unsupervised Antibody Optimizer and Explainer
2029. ICLR 2025A Theoretical Framework for Partially-Observed Reward States in RLHF
2030. ICLR 2025A Transfer Attack to Image Watermarks
2031. ICLR 2025A transfer learning framework for weak to strong generalization
2032. ICLR 2025ACC-Collab: An Actor-Critic Approach to Multi-Agent LLM Collaboration
2033. ICLR 2025Accelerating Training with Neuron Interaction and Nowcasting Networks
2034. ICLR 2025Activation Gradient based Poisoned Sample Detection Against Backdoor Attacks
2035. ICLR 2025Adam-mini: Use Fewer Learning Rates To Gain More
2036. ICLR 2025Adaptive Batch Size for Privately Finding Second-Order Stationary Points
2037. ICLR 2025Adaptive Deployment of Untrusted LLMs Reduces Distributed Threats
2038. ICLR 2025Adaptive Energy Alignment for Accelerating Test-Time Adaptation
2039. ICLR 2025Adjoint Matching: Fine-tuning Flow and Diffusion Generative Models with Memoryless Stochastic Optimal Control
2040. ICLR 2025Advancing LLM Reasoning Generalists with Preference Trees
2041. ICLR 2025Advantage-Guided Distillation for Preference Alignment in Small Language Models
2042. ICLR 2025Adversarial Attacks on Data Attribution
2043. ICLR 2025Adversarial Latent Feature Augmentation for Fairness
2044. ICLR 2025Adversarial Machine Unlearning
2045. ICLR 2025Adversarial Perturbations Cannot Reliably Protect Artists From Generative AI
2046. ICLR 2025Adversarial Search Engine Optimization for Large Language Models
2047. ICLR 2025Adversaries With Incentives: A Strategic Alternative to Adversarial Robustness
2048. ICLR 2025AgentHarm: A Benchmark for Measuring Harmfulness of LLM Agents
2049. ICLR 2025AI Sandbagging: Language Models can Strategically Underperform on Evaluations
2050. ICLR 2025AIR-BENCH 2024: A Safety Benchmark based on Regulation and Policies Specified Risk Categories

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.