Alignment and Safety papers, 2023–2026

RLHF, preference optimization, red-teaming, and safety alignment

Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 4,558 papers are tagged with this topic.

Key findings

Papers per year

Papers per venue

Counts by year and venue

Alignment and Safety papers by year and venue
YearNeurIPSICLRICMLCVPRTotal
202313887101112438
2024348156246125875
20254554733001351,363
20264806235512281,882

Representative papers

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All Alignment and Safety papers

4,558 papers, page 63 of 92

  1. NeurIPS 2025Prior Forgetting and In-Context Overfitting
  2. NeurIPS 2025Probabilistic Stability Guarantees for Feature Attributions
  3. NeurIPS 2025Probabilistic Token Alignment for Large Language Model Fusion
  4. NeurIPS 2025Prohibiting Generative AI in any Form of Weapon Control
  5. NeurIPS 2025Prompt-Guided Alignment with Information Bottleneck Makes Image Compression Also a Restorer
  6. NeurIPS 2025Prot2Text-V2: Protein Function Prediction with Multimodal Contrastive Alignment
  7. NeurIPS 2025Protein Inverse Folding From Structure Feedback
  8. NeurIPS 2025Provably Efficient Online RLHF with One-Pass Reward Modeling
  9. NeurIPS 2025Proximalized Preference Optimization for Diverse Feedback Types: A Decomposed Perspective on DPO
  10. NeurIPS 2025PurpCode: Reasoning for Safer Code Generation
  11. NeurIPS 2025Quantifying Uncertainty in Error Consistency: Towards Reliable Behavioral Comparison of Classifiers
  12. NeurIPS 2025Quantile Reward Policy Optimization: Alignment with Pointwise Regression and Exact Partition Functions
  13. NeurIPS 2025Ranking-based Preference Optimization for Diffusion Models from Implicit User Feedback
  14. NeurIPS 2025Real-DRL: Teach and Learn in Reality
  15. NeurIPS 2025Reasoning as an Adaptive Defense for Safety
  16. NeurIPS 2025Rebalancing Contrastive Alignment with Bottlenecked Semantic Increments in Text-Video Retrieval
  17. NeurIPS 2025Reconstruction and Secrecy under Approximate Distance Queries
  18. NeurIPS 2025Red-Teaming Text-to-Image Systems by Rule-based Preference Modeling
  19. NeurIPS 2025Redefining Experts: Interpretable Decomposition of Language Models for Toxicity Mitigation
  20. NeurIPS 2025Refusal Direction is Universal Across Safety-Aligned Languages
  21. NeurIPS 2025Reinforcement Learning with Backtracking Feedback
  22. NeurIPS 2025Reliably detecting model failures in deployment without labels
  23. NeurIPS 2025RepGuard: Adaptive Feature Decoupling for Robust Backdoor Defense in Large Language Models
  24. NeurIPS 2025ReplaceMe: Network Simplification via Depth Pruning and Transformer Block Linearization
  25. NeurIPS 2025RePO: Understanding Preference Learning Through ReLU-Based Optimization
  26. NeurIPS 2025Residual Stream Analysis of Overfitting And Structural Disruptions
  27. NeurIPS 2025ResponseRank: Data-Efficient Reward Modeling through Preference Strength Learning
  28. NeurIPS 2025RiOSWorld: Benchmarking the Risk of Multimodal Computer-Use Agents
  29. NeurIPS 2025Risk Management for Mitigating Benchmark Failure Modes: BenchRisk
  30. NeurIPS 2025Risk-aware Direct Preference Optimization under Nested Risk Measure
  31. NeurIPS 2025Robust Cross-modal Alignment Learning for Cross-Scene Spatial Reasoning and Grounding
  32. NeurIPS 2025Robust Distributed Estimation: Extending Gossip Algorithms to Ranking and Trimmed Means
  33. NeurIPS 2025Robust LLM Alignment via Distributionally Robust Direct Preference Optimization
  34. NeurIPS 2025RPG360: Robust 360 Depth Estimation with Perspective Foundation Models and Graph Optimization
  35. NeurIPS 2025RSafe: Incentivizing proactive reasoning to build robust and adaptive LLM safeguards
  36. NeurIPS 2025SAD Neural Networks: Divergent Gradient Flows and Asymptotic Optimality via o-minimal Structures
  37. NeurIPS 2025Safe RLHF-V: Safe Reinforcement Learning from Multi-modal Human Feedback
  38. NeurIPS 2025Safe-Sora: Safe Text-to-Video Generation via Graphical Watermarking
  39. NeurIPS 2025SAFEPATH: Preventing Harmful Reasoning in Chain-of-Thought via Early Alignment
  40. NeurIPS 2025SafePTR: Token-Level Jailbreak Defense in Multimodal LLMs via Prune-then-Restore Mechanism
  41. NeurIPS 2025Safety Depth in Large Language Models: A Markov Chain Perspective
  42. NeurIPS 2025Safety Pretraining: Toward the Next Generation of Safe AI
  43. NeurIPS 2025SafeVid: Toward Safety Aligned Video Large Multimodal Models
  44. NeurIPS 2025SafeVLA: Towards Safety Alignment of Vision-Language-Action Model via Constrained Learning
  45. NeurIPS 2025SAFEx: Analyzing Vulnerabilities of MoE-Based LLMs via Stable Safety-critical Expert Identification
  46. NeurIPS 2025SAGE-Eval: Evaluating LLMs for Systematic Generalizations of Safety Facts
  47. NeurIPS 2025Scalable Cross-View Sample Alignment for Multi-View Clustering with View Structure Similarity
  48. NeurIPS 2025Scalable Valuation of Human Feedback through Provably Robust Model Alignment
  49. NeurIPS 2025Scaling and context steer LLMs along the same computational path as the human brain
  50. NeurIPS 2025Scaling Laws For Scalable Oversight

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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.

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