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. ICLR 2026(Token-Level) \textbf{InfoRMIA}: Stronger Membership Inference and Privacy Assessment for LLMs
230. ICLR 2026$\alpha$-DPO: Robust Preference Alignment for Diffusion Models via $\alpha$ Divergence
231. ICLR 2026A Fair Bayesian Inference through Matched Gibbs Posterior
232. ICLR 2026A Framework for Studying AI Agent Behavior: Evidence from Consumer Choice Experiments
233. ICLR 2026A Guardrail for Safety Preservation: When Safety-Sensitive Subspace Meets Harmful-Resistant Null-Space
234. ICLR 2026A Unified Total Variation Framework for Membrane Potential Perturbation Dynamic
235. ICLR 2026A2D: Any-Order, Any-Step Safety Alignment for Diffusion Language Models
236. ICLR 2026Activation Steering for LLM Alignment via a Unified ODE-Based Framework
237. ICLR 2026Activation Steering with a Feedback Controller
238. ICLR 2026ActiveDPO: Active Direct Preference Optimization for Sample-Efficient Alignment
239. ICLR 2026AdAEM: An Adaptively and Automated Extensible Evaluation Method of LLMs' Value Difference
240. ICLR 2026Adaptive Attacks on Trusted Monitors Subvert AI Control Protocols
241. ICLR 2026Adaptive Data-Knowledge Alignment in Genetic Perturbation Prediction
242. ICLR 2026Adaptive Social Learning via Mode Policy Optimization for Language Agents
243. ICLR 2026AdPO: Enhancing the Adversarial Robustness of Large Vision-Language Models with Preference Optimization
244. ICLR 2026AdvChain: Adversarial Chain-of-Thought Tuning for Robust Safety Alignment of Large Reasoning Models
245. ICLR 2026Adversarial Déjà Vu: Jailbreak Dictionary Learning for Stronger Generalization to Unseen Attacks
246. ICLR 2026Align Once, Benefit Multilingually: Enforcing Multilingual Consistency for LLM Safety Alignment
247. ICLR 2026Align to Misalign: Automatic LLM Jailbreak with Meta-Optimized LLM Judges
248. ICLR 2026Align-SAM: Seeking Flatter Minima for Better Cross-Subset Alignment
249. ICLR 2026Aligner, Diagnose Thyself: A Meta-Learning Paradigm for Fusing Intrinsic Feedback in Preference Alignment
250. ICLR 2026Aligning Collaborative View Recovery and Tensorial Subspace Learning via Latent Representation for Incomplete Multi-View Clustering

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.