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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201. CVPR 2026Towards Fine-Grained Attribution Instance-Aware Preference Optimization for Aligning Diffusion Models
202. CVPR 2026Towards Unified Human Perception and Machine Understanding Token Flow Guided
203. CVPR 2026TreeTeaming Autonomous Red-Teaming of Vision-Language Models via Hierarchical Strategy Exploration
204. CVPR 2026TROPHIES Temporal Reconstruction of Places Humans and Cameras from Multi-view
205. CVPR 2026TWEO Transformers Without Extreme Outliers Enables FP8 Training And Quantization
206. CVPR 2026UFO Unifying Feed-Forward and Optimization-based Methods for Large Driving Scene
207. CVPR 2026Uncertainty-Aware Exploratory Direct Preference Optimization for Multimodal Large Language Models
208. CVPR 2026Understanding and Enforcing Weight Disentanglement in Task Arithmetic
209. CVPR 2026Unified Generation and Self-Verification for Vision-Language Models via Advantage Decoupled
210. CVPR 2026UniFusion A Unified Image Fusion Framework with Robust Representation and
211. CVPR 2026Unstitching the Chimera Frame-Level Risk and Train-Free Mitigation for Video
212. CVPR 2026VA-p Variational Policy Alignment for Pixel-Aware Autoregressive Generation
213. CVPR 2026VDE Training-Free Accelerating Rectified Flow Model via Velocity Decomposition and
214. CVPR 2026VGA Empowering Aerial-Ground Localization by Visual Geometry Alignment
215. CVPR 2026VIAFormer Voxel-Image Alignment Transformer for High-Fidelity Voxel Refinement
216. CVPR 2026View-Aware Semantic Alignment for Aerial-Ground Person Re-Identification
217. CVPR 2026VLM-Guided Group Preference Alignment for Diffusion-based Human Mesh Recovery
218. CVPR 2026Voxify3D Pixel Art Meets Volumetric Rendering
219. CVPR 2026VRCLIP Multimodal Canonical Correlation Alignment for CLIP-Driven Vision-Radio Person Re-Identification
220. CVPR 2026VT-Intrinsic Physics-Based Decomposition of Reflectance and Shading using a Single
221. CVPR 2026What Do Visual Tokens Really Encode Uncovering Sparsity and Redundancy
222. CVPR 2026What Is It Like to Be a Noise An Entropy-based
223. CVPR 2026What Is the Optimal Ranking Score Between Precision and Recall
224. CVPR 2026When Understanding Becomes a Risk Authenticity and Safety Risks in
225. CVPR 2026Where MLLMs Attend and What They Rely On Explaining Autoregressive
226. CVPR 2026WHU-MARS A Multispectral Aerial-Ground Benchmark Towards Any-Scenario Person Re-Identification
227. CVPR 2026WildCap Facial Albedo Capture in the Wild via Hybrid Inverse
228. CVPR 2026Zero-shot Detection of AI-Generated Image via RAW-RGB Alignment
229. CVPR 20254DTAM: Non-Rigid Tracking and Mapping via Dynamic Surface Gaussians
230. CVPR 2025Aesthetic Post-Training Diffusion Models from Generic Preferences with Step-by-step Preference Optimization
231. CVPR 2025AesthetiQ: Enhancing Graphic Layout Design via Aesthetic-Aware Preference Alignment of Multi-modal Large Language Models
232. CVPR 2025AlignMamba: Enhancing Multimodal Mamba with Local and Global Cross-modal Alignment
233. CVPR 2025Alignment, Mining and Fusion: Representation Alignment with Hard Negative Mining and Selective Knowledge Fusion for Medical Visual Question Answering
234. CVPR 2025AniMer: Animal Pose and Shape Estimation Using Family Aware Transformer
235. CVPR 2025Antidote: A Unified Framework for Mitigating LVLM Hallucinations in Counterfactual Presupposition and Object Perception
236. CVPR 2025Any6D: Model-free 6D Pose Estimation of Novel Objects
237. CVPR 2025AnyCam: Learning to Recover Camera Poses and Intrinsics from Casual Videos
238. CVPR 2025ASAP: Advancing Semantic Alignment Promotes Multi-Modal Manipulation Detecting and Grounding
239. CVPR 2025Asynchronous Collaborative Graph Representation for Frames and Events
240. CVPR 2025Automatic Joint Structured Pruning and Quantization for Efficient Neural Network Training and Compression
241. CVPR 2025Automatic Spectral Calibration of Hyperspectral Images: Method, Dataset and Benchmark
242. CVPR 2025Balancing Two Classifiers via A Simplex ETF Structure for Model Calibration
243. CVPR 2025BOE-ViT: Boosting Orientation Estimation with Equivariance in Self-Supervised 3D Subtomogram Alignment
244. CVPR 2025Boost Your Human Image Generation Model via Direct Preference Optimization
245. CVPR 2025Boosting Point-Supervised Temporal Action Localization through Integrating Query Reformation and Optimal Transport
246. CVPR 2025Bridge Frame and Event: Common Spatiotemporal Fusion for High-Dynamic Scene Optical Flow
247. CVPR 2025CADCrafter: Generating Computer-Aided Design Models from Unconstrained Images
248. CVPR 2025Calibrated Multi-Preference Optimization for Aligning Diffusion Models
249. CVPR 2025Camera Resection from Known Line Pencils and a Radially Distorted Scanline
250. CVPR 2025Camouflage Anything: Learning to Hide using Controlled Out-painting and Representation Engineering

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.