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 58 of 92

2851. NeurIPS 2025Bridging Time and Linguistics: LLMs as Time Series Analyzer through Symbolization and Segmentation
2852. NeurIPS 2025C-SafeGen: Certified Safe LLM Generation with Claim-Based Streaming Guardrails
2853. NeurIPS 2025Calibrating Translation Decoding with Quality Estimation on LLMs
2854. NeurIPS 2025CaliGCL: Calibrated Graph Contrastive Learning via Partitioned Similarity and Consistency Discrimination
2855. NeurIPS 2025CALM: Culturally Self-Aware Language Models
2856. NeurIPS 2025CAMILA: Context-Aware Masking for Image Editing with Language Alignment
2857. NeurIPS 2025Can DPO Learn Diverse Human Values? A Theoretical Scaling Law
2858. NeurIPS 2025CARE: Decoding-Time Safety Alignment via Rollback and Introspection Intervention
2859. NeurIPS 2025CARES: Comprehensive Evaluation of Safety and Adversarial Robustness in Medical LLMs
2860. NeurIPS 2025Certifying Concavity and Monotonicity in Games via Sum-of-Squares Hierarchies
2861. NeurIPS 2025Chain-of-Zoom: Extreme Super-Resolution via Scale Autoregression and Preference Alignment
2862. NeurIPS 2025Checklists Are Better Than Reward Models For Aligning Language Models
2863. NeurIPS 2025Clean First, Align Later: Benchmarking Preference Data Cleaning for Reliable LLM Alignment
2864. NeurIPS 2025Clip-and-Verify: Linear Constraint-Driven Domain Clipping for Accelerating Neural Network Verification
2865. NeurIPS 2025Closed-Form Training Dynamics Reveal Learned Features and Linear Structure in Word2Vec-like Models
2866. NeurIPS 2025Collective Bargaining in the Information Economy Can Address AI-Driven Power Concentration
2867. NeurIPS 2025Combinatorial Ski Rental Problem: Robust and Learning-Augmented Algorithms
2868. NeurIPS 2025Combining Cost Constrained Runtime Monitors for AI Safety
2869. NeurIPS 2025Comparison requires valid measurement: Rethinking attack success rate comparisons in AI red teaming
2870. NeurIPS 2025ComPO: Preference Alignment via Comparison Oracles
2871. NeurIPS 2025Composition and Alignment of Diffusion Models using Constrained Learning
2872. NeurIPS 2025Comprehensive Assessment and Analysis for NSFW Content Erasure in Text-to-Image Diffusion models
2873. NeurIPS 2025Compress Large Language Models via Collaboration Between Learning and Matrix Approximation
2874. NeurIPS 2025Computation and Memory-Efficient Model Compression with Gradient Reweighting
2875. NeurIPS 2025Concentration and excess risk bounds for imbalanced classification with synthetic oversampling
2876. NeurIPS 2025Confidence-Aware With Prototype Alignment for Partial Multi-label Learning
2877. NeurIPS 2025Conformal Arbitrage: Risk-Controlled Balancing of Competing Objectives in Language Models
2878. NeurIPS 2025Connecting Neural Models Latent Geometries with Relative Geodesic Representations
2879. NeurIPS 2025Consistent Supervised-Unsupervised Alignment for Generalized Category Discovery
2880. NeurIPS 2025Continuity and Isolation Lead to Doubts or Dilemmas in Large Language Models
2881. NeurIPS 2025Contrastive Learning with Data Misalignment: Feature Purity, Training Dynamics and Theoretical Generalization Guarantees
2882. NeurIPS 2025CoP: Agentic Red-teaming for Large Language Models using Composition of Principles
2883. NeurIPS 2025CoT Red-Handed: Stress Testing Chain-of-Thought Monitoring
2884. NeurIPS 2025Counterfactual Reasoning for Steerable Pluralistic Value Alignment of Large Language Models
2885. NeurIPS 2025CPO: Condition Preference Optimization for Controllable Image Generation
2886. NeurIPS 2025CTRL-ALT-DECEIT Sabotage Evaluations for Automated AI R&D
2887. NeurIPS 2025CURE: Concept Unlearning via Orthogonal Representation Editing in Diffusion Models
2888. NeurIPS 2025CVGL: Causal Learning and Geometric Topology
2889. NeurIPS 2025DAPO : Improving Multi-Step Reasoning Abilities of Large Language Models with Direct Advantage-Based Policy Optimization
2890. NeurIPS 2025Decoupling Contrastive Decoding: Robust Hallucination Mitigation in Multimodal Large Language Models
2891. NeurIPS 2025Deep Value Benchmark: Measuring Whether Models Generalize Deep values or Shallow Preferences
2892. NeurIPS 2025DeepKD: A Deeply Decoupled and Denoised Knowledge Distillation Trainer
2893. NeurIPS 2025Delta Attention: Fast and Accurate Sparse Attention Inference by Delta Correction
2894. NeurIPS 2025DenseDPO: Fine-Grained Temporal Preference Optimization for Video Diffusion Models
2895. NeurIPS 2025Differentiable Sparsity via $D$-Gating: Simple and Versatile Structured Penalization
2896. NeurIPS 2025Diffusion Model as a Noise-Aware Latent Reward Model for Step-Level Preference Optimization
2897. NeurIPS 2025Diffusion Tree Sampling: Scalable inference‑time alignment of diffusion models
2898. NeurIPS 2025Diffusion-Classifier Synergy: Reward-Aligned Learning via Mutual Boosting Loop for FSCIL
2899. NeurIPS 2025Dimensional Collapse in VQVAEs: Evidence and Remedies
2900. NeurIPS 2025Dimensionality Mismatch Between Brains and Artificial Neural Networks

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.