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 71 of 92

  1. ICLR 2024The Devil is in the Neurons: Interpreting and Mitigating Social Biases in Language Models
  2. ICLR 2024The False Promise of Imitating Proprietary Language Models
  3. ICLR 2024The importance of feature preprocessing for differentially private linear optimization
  4. ICLR 2024The Lipschitz-Variance-Margin Tradeoff for Enhanced Randomized Smoothing
  5. ICLR 2024The Trickle-down Impact of Reward Inconsistency on RLHF
  6. ICLR 2024The Unlocking Spell on Base LLMs: Rethinking Alignment via In-Context Learning
  7. ICLR 2024Tool-Augmented Reward Modeling
  8. ICLR 2024Toward effective protection against diffusion-based mimicry through score distillation
  9. ICLR 2024Towards Optimal Feature-Shaping Methods for Out-of-Distribution Detection
  10. ICLR 2024Towards Poisoning Fair Representations
  11. ICLR 2024Towards Reliable and Efficient Backdoor Trigger Inversion via Decoupling Benign Features
  12. ICLR 2024Towards Understanding Sycophancy in Language Models
  13. ICLR 2024Training Socially Aligned Language Models on Simulated Social Interactions
  14. ICLR 2024Understanding and Mitigating the Label Noise in Pre-training on Downstream Tasks
  15. ICLR 2024Understanding Convergence and Generalization in Federated Learning through Feature Learning Theory
  16. ICLR 2024Understanding the Effects of RLHF on LLM Generalisation and Diversity
  17. ICLR 2024Uni-RLHF: Universal Platform and Benchmark Suite for Reinforcement Learning with Diverse Human Feedback
  18. ICLR 2024Unifying Feature and Cost Aggregation with Transformers for Semantic and Visual Correspondence
  19. ICLR 2024Universal Jailbreak Backdoors from Poisoned Human Feedback
  20. ICLR 2024Unmasking and Improving Data Credibility: A Study with Datasets for Training Harmless Language Models
  21. ICLR 2024VDC: Versatile Data Cleanser based on Visual-Linguistic Inconsistency by Multimodal Large Language Models
  22. ICLR 2024What Makes Good Data for Alignment? A Comprehensive Study of Automatic Data Selection in Instruction Tuning
  23. ICLR 2024What Matters to You? Towards Visual Representation Alignment for Robot Learning
  24. ICLR 2024WildChat: 1M ChatGPT Interaction Logs in the Wild
  25. ICLR 2024ZeRO++: Extremely Efficient Collective Communication for Large Model Training
  26. ICLR 2024Zeroth-Order Optimization Meets Human Feedback: Provable Learning via Ranking Oracles
  27. ICML 2024A connection between Tempering and Entropic Mirror Descent
  28. ICML 2024A Global Geometric Analysis of Maximal Coding Rate Reduction
  29. ICML 2024A Mechanistic Understanding of Alignment Algorithms: A Case Study on DPO and Toxicity
  30. ICML 2024A Minimaximalist Approach to Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback
  31. ICML 2024A Neural-Preconditioned Poisson Solver for Mixed Dirichlet and Neumann Boundary Conditions
  32. ICML 2024A Unified Linear Programming Framework for Offline Reward Learning from Human Demonstrations and Feedback
  33. ICML 2024Accelerated Algorithms for Constrained Nonconvex-Nonconcave Min-Max Optimization and Comonotone Inclusion
  34. ICML 2024Active Preference Learning for Large Language Models
  35. ICML 2024Active Ranking and Matchmaking, with Perfect Matchings
  36. ICML 2024Advancing DRL Agents in Commercial Fighting Games: Training, Integration, and Agent-Human Alignment
  37. ICML 2024Adversarial Robustness Limits via Scaling-Law and Human-Alignment Studies
  38. ICML 2024Agent Smith: A Single Image Can Jailbreak One Million Multimodal LLM Agents Exponentially Fast
  39. ICML 2024Agnostic Learning of Mixed Linear Regressions with EM and AM Algorithms
  40. ICML 2024AI Alignment with Changing and Influenceable Reward Functions
  41. ICML 2024AI Control: Improving Safety Despite Intentional Subversion
  42. ICML 2024Algorithm and Hardness for Dynamic Attention Maintenance in Large Language Models
  43. ICML 2024Aligning Transformers with Weisfeiler-Leman
  44. ICML 2024AlphaZero-Like Tree-Search can Guide Large Language Model Decoding and Training
  45. ICML 2024An Online Optimization Perspective on First-Order and Zero-Order Decentralized Nonsmooth Nonconvex Stochastic Optimization
  46. ICML 2024Assessing the Brittleness of Safety Alignment via Pruning and Low-Rank Modifications
  47. ICML 2024AutoOS: Make Your OS More Powerful by Exploiting Large Language Models
  48. ICML 2024Balanced Resonate-and-Fire Neurons
  49. ICML 2024Balancing Similarity and Complementarity for Federated Learning
  50. ICML 2024Bootstrapping Fisher Market Equilibrium and First-Price Pacing Equilibrium

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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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