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
- 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.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 138 | 87 | 101 | 112 | 438 |
| 2024 | 348 | 156 | 246 | 125 | 875 |
| 2025 | 455 | 473 | 300 | 135 | 1,363 |
| 2026 | 480 | 623 | 551 | 228 | 1,882 |
Representative papers
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- 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 70 of 92
- ICLR 2024Making RL with Preference-based Feedback Efficient via Randomization
- ICLR 2024MAP IT to Visualize Representations
- ICLR 2024Masks, Signs, And Learning Rate Rewinding
- ICLR 2024MINT: Evaluating LLMs in Multi-turn Interaction with Tools and Language Feedback
- ICLR 2024Motif: Intrinsic Motivation from Artificial Intelligence Feedback
- ICLR 2024Multilingual Jailbreak Challenges in Large Language Models
- ICLR 2024NEFTune: Noisy Embeddings Improve Instruction Finetuning
- ICLR 2024Network Memory Footprint Compression Through Jointly Learnable Codebooks and Mappings
- ICLR 2024Neuron Activation Coverage: Rethinking Out-of-distribution Detection and Generalization
- ICLR 2024Neuron-Enhanced AutoEncoder Matrix Completion and Collaborative Filtering: Theory and Practice
- ICLR 2024On Bias-Variance Alignment in Deep Models
- ICLR 2024On the Fairness ROAD: Robust Optimization for Adversarial Debiasing
- ICLR 2024On the Generalization and Approximation Capacities of Neural Controlled Differential Equations
- ICLR 2024On the Over-Memorization During Natural, Robust and Catastrophic Overfitting
- ICLR 2024On-Policy Distillation of Language Models: Learning from Self-Generated Mistakes
- ICLR 2024Optimal transport based adversarial patch to leverage large scale attack transferability
- ICLR 2024Overthinking the Truth: Understanding how Language Models Process False Demonstrations
- ICLR 2024PARL: A Unified Framework for Policy Alignment in Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback
- ICLR 2024Plug-and-Play: An Efficient Post-training Pruning Method for Large Language Models
- ICLR 2024Privately Aligning Language Models with Reinforcement Learning
- ICLR 2024Quantifying and Enhancing Multi-modal Robustness with Modality Preference
- ICLR 2024Query-Dependent Prompt Evaluation and Optimization with Offline Inverse RL
- ICLR 2024Quick-Tune: Quickly Learning Which Pretrained Model to Finetune and How
- ICLR 2024RAIN: Your Language Models Can Align Themselves without Finetuning
- ICLR 2024RECOMBINER: Robust and Enhanced Compression with Bayesian Implicit Neural Representations
- ICLR 2024Respect the model: Fine-grained and Robust Explanation with Sharing Ratio Decomposition
- ICLR 2024Revisit and Outstrip Entity Alignment: A Perspective of Generative Models
- ICLR 2024Reward Model Ensembles Help Mitigate Overoptimization
- ICLR 2024Ring-A-Bell! How Reliable are Concept Removal Methods For Diffusion Models?
- ICLR 2024RLCD: Reinforcement Learning from Contrastive Distillation for LM Alignment
- ICLR 2024Robust Similarity Learning with Difference Alignment Regularization
- ICLR 2024Robustifying and Boosting Training-Free Neural Architecture Search
- ICLR 2024Safe and Robust Watermark Injection with a Single OoD Image
- ICLR 2024Safe RLHF: Safe Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback
- ICLR 2024Safety-Tuned LLaMAs: Lessons From Improving the Safety of Large Language Models that Follow Instructions
- ICLR 2024SALMON: Self-Alignment with Instructable Reward Models
- ICLR 2024Scaling for Training Time and Post-hoc Out-of-distribution Detection Enhancement
- ICLR 2024SCHEMA: State CHangEs MAtter for Procedure Planning in Instructional Videos
- ICLR 2024Self-Alignment with Instruction Backtranslation
- ICLR 2024Self-contradictory Hallucinations of Large Language Models: Evaluation, Detection and Mitigation
- ICLR 2024Self-supervised Pocket Pretraining via Protein Fragment-Surroundings Alignment
- ICLR 2024Set Learning for Accurate and Calibrated Models
- ICLR 2024SliceGPT: Compress Large Language Models by Deleting Rows and Columns
- ICLR 2024Sparse Spiking Neural Network: Exploiting Heterogeneity in Timescales for Pruning Recurrent SNN
- ICLR 2024Statistical Rejection Sampling Improves Preference Optimization
- ICLR 2024Subtractive Mixture Models via Squaring: Representation and Learning
- ICLR 2024Sudden Drops in the Loss: Syntax Acquisition, Phase Transitions, and Simplicity Bias in MLMs
- ICLR 2024Task structure and nonlinearity jointly determine learned representational geometry
- ICLR 2024Teaching Language Models to Hallucinate Less with Synthetic Tasks
- ICLR 2024The Alignment Problem from a Deep Learning Perspective
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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.