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

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  1. NeurIPS 2025Tightening Regret Lower and Upper Bounds in Restless Rising Bandits
  2. NeurIPS 2025Tighter CMI-Based Generalization Bounds via Stochastic Projection and Quantization
  3. NeurIPS 2025Time-o1: Time-Series Forecasting Needs Transformed Label Alignment
  4. NeurIPS 2025Token-Level Self-Play with Importance-Aware Guidance for Large Language Models
  5. NeurIPS 2025TokenSwap: A Lightweight Method to Disrupt Memorized Sequences in LLMs
  6. NeurIPS 2025Towards Reliable and Holistic Visual In-Context Learning Prompt Selection
  7. NeurIPS 2025Towards Resilient Safety-driven Unlearning for Diffusion Models against Downstream Fine-tuning
  8. NeurIPS 2025Towards Understanding Safety Alignment: A Mechanistic Perspective from Safety Neurons
  9. NeurIPS 2025Training the Untrainable: Introducing Inductive Bias via Representational Alignment
  10. NeurIPS 2025Training-Free Safe Denoisers for Safe Use of Diffusion Models
  11. NeurIPS 2025Trajectory Balance with Asynchrony: Decoupling Exploration and Learning for Fast, Scalable LLM Post-Training
  12. NeurIPS 2025Trajectory Graph Learning: Aligning with Long Trajectories in Reinforcement Learning Without Reward Design
  13. NeurIPS 2025TransMLA: Migrating GQA Models to MLA with Full DeepSeek Compatibility and Speedup
  14. NeurIPS 2025Triplets Better Than Pairs: Towards Stable and Effective Self-Play Fine-Tuning for LLMs
  15. NeurIPS 2025U-REPA: Aligning Diffusion U-Nets to ViTs
  16. NeurIPS 2025UMU-Bench: Closing the Modality Gap in Multimodal Unlearning Evaluation
  17. NeurIPS 2025Understanding and Rectifying Safety Perception Distortion in VLMs
  18. NeurIPS 2025Unifying Attention Heads and Task Vectors via Hidden State Geometry in In-Context Learning
  19. NeurIPS 2025Unifying Reconstruction and Density Estimation via Invertible Contraction Mapping in One-Class Classification
  20. NeurIPS 2025UniGen: Enhanced Training & Test-Time Strategies for Unified Multimodal Understanding and Generation
  21. NeurIPS 2025Unlocker: Disentangle the Deadlock of Learning between Label-noisy and Long-tailed Data
  22. NeurIPS 2025Unveiling the Power of Multiple Gossip Steps: A Stability-Based Generalization Analysis in Decentralized Training
  23. NeurIPS 2025Unveiling the Uncertainty in Embodied and Operational Carbon of Large AI Models through a Probabilistic Carbon Accounting Model
  24. NeurIPS 2025Utility Engineering: Analyzing and Controlling Emergent Value Systems in AIs
  25. NeurIPS 2025Value Gradient Guidance for Flow Matching Alignment
  26. NeurIPS 2025Vicinal Label Supervision for Reliable Aleatoric and Epistemic Uncertainty Estimation
  27. NeurIPS 2025Video-SafetyBench: A Benchmark for Safety Evaluation of Video LVLMs
  28. NeurIPS 2025VL-SAE: Interpreting and Enhancing Vision-Language Alignment with a Unified Concept Set
  29. NeurIPS 2025VLForgery Face Triad: Detection, Localization and Attribution via Multimodal Large Language Models
  30. NeurIPS 2025VLMs can Aggregate Scattered Training Patches
  31. NeurIPS 2025VMDT: Decoding the Trustworthiness of Video Foundation Models
  32. NeurIPS 2025VPO: Reasoning Preferences Optimization Based on $\mathcal{V}$-Usable Information
  33. NeurIPS 2025Walking the Tightrope: Autonomous Disentangling Beneficial and Detrimental Drifts in Non-Stationary Custom-Tuning
  34. NeurIPS 2025Weak-to-Strong Generalization under Distribution Shifts
  35. NeurIPS 2025WebThinker: Empowering Large Reasoning Models with Deep Research Capability
  36. NeurIPS 2025What Makes a Reward Model a Good Teacher? An Optimization Perspective
  37. NeurIPS 2025What Matters in Data for DPO?
  38. NeurIPS 2025When and how can inexact generative models still sample from the data manifold?
  39. NeurIPS 2025When Do Transformers Outperform Feedforward and Recurrent Networks? A Statistical Perspective
  40. NeurIPS 2025Who Speaks for the Trigger? Dynamic Expert Routing in Backdoored Mixture-of-Experts Transformers
  41. NeurIPS 2025Whose Instructions Count? Resolving Preference Bias in Instruction Fine-Tuning
  42. NeurIPS 2025Whose View of Safety? A Deep DIVE Dataset for Pluralistic Alignment of Text-to-Image Models
  43. NeurIPS 2025Why and How LLMs Hallucinate: Connecting the Dots with Subsequence Associations
  44. NeurIPS 2025Why Do Some Language Models Fake Alignment While Others Don't?
  45. NeurIPS 2025Zooming from Context to Cue: Hierarchical Preference Optimization for Multi-Image MLLMs
  46. CVPR 20241-Lipschitz Layers Compared: Memory Speed and Certifiable Robustness
  47. CVPR 2024A Call to Reflect on Evaluation Practices for Age Estimation: Comparative Analysis of the State-of-the-Art and a Unified Benchmark
  48. CVPR 2024A Semi-supervised Nighttime Dehazing Baseline with Spatial-Frequency Aware and Realistic Brightness Constraint
  49. CVPR 2024A Theory of Joint Light and Heat Transport for Lambertian Scenes
  50. CVPR 2024Absolute Pose from One or Two Scaled and Oriented Features

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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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