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 74 of 92

3651. ICML 2024Minimally Modifying a Markov Game to Achieve Any Nash Equilibrium and Value
3652. ICML 2024MLI Formula: A Nearly Scale-Invariant Solution with Noise Perturbation
3653. ICML 2024Model Alignment as Prospect Theoretic Optimization
3654. ICML 2024Model Assessment and Selection under Temporal Distribution Shift
3655. ICML 2024Momentum Particle Maximum Likelihood
3656. ICML 2024Monotone, Bi-Lipschitz, and Polyak-Łojasiewicz Networks
3657. ICML 2024Moreau Envelope for Nonconvex Bi-Level Optimization: A Single-Loop and Hessian-Free Solution Strategy
3658. ICML 2024MusicRL: Aligning Music Generation to Human Preferences
3659. ICML 2024Naive Bayes Classifiers over Missing Data: Decision and Poisoning
3660. ICML 2024Nash Learning from Human Feedback
3661. ICML 2024Noise-Adaptive Confidence Sets for Linear Bandits and Application to Bayesian Optimization
3662. ICML 2024Nonlinear Filtering with Brenier Optimal Transport Maps
3663. ICML 2024ODIN: Disentangled Reward Mitigates Hacking in RLHF
3664. ICML 2024On Stronger Computational Separations Between Multimodal and Unimodal Machine Learning
3665. ICML 2024On the Convergence of Projected Bures-Wasserstein Gradient Descent under Euclidean Strong Convexity
3666. ICML 2024On the Duality Between Sharpness-Aware Minimization and Adversarial Training
3667. ICML 2024One for All: A Universal Generator for Concept Unlearnability via Multi-Modal Alignment
3668. ICML 2024Optimal Acceleration for Minimax and Fixed-Point Problems is Not Unique
3669. ICML 2024Optimal Exact Recovery in Semi-Supervised Learning: A Study of Spectral Methods and Graph Convolutional Networks
3670. ICML 2024OptiMUS: Scalable Optimization Modeling with (MI)LP Solvers and Large Language Models
3671. ICML 2024OSSCAR: One-Shot Structured Pruning in Vision and Language Models with Combinatorial Optimization
3672. ICML 2024OT-CLIP: Understanding and Generalizing CLIP via Optimal Transport
3673. ICML 2024Overcoming Data and Model heterogeneities in Decentralized Federated Learning via Synthetic Anchors
3674. ICML 2024Pairwise Alignment Improves Graph Domain Adaptation
3675. ICML 2024PARDEN, Can You Repeat That? Defending against Jailbreaks via Repetition
3676. ICML 2024PEARL: Zero-shot Cross-task Preference Alignment and Robust Reward Learning for Robotic Manipulation
3677. ICML 2024Perfect Alignment May be Poisonous to Graph Contrastive Learning
3678. ICML 2024Perturb-and-Project: Differentially Private Similarities and Marginals
3679. ICML 2024Piecewise Constant and Linear Regression Trees: An Optimal Dynamic Programming Approach
3680. ICML 2024PlanDQ: Hierarchical Plan Orchestration via D-Conductor and Q-Performer
3681. ICML 2024Position: A Roadmap to Pluralistic Alignment
3682. ICML 2024Position: A Safe Harbor for AI Evaluation and Red Teaming
3683. ICML 2024Position: Beyond Personhood: Agency, Accountability, and the Limits of Anthropomorphic Ethical Analysis
3684. ICML 2024Position: Evolving AI Collectives Enhance Human Diversity and Enable Self-Regulation
3685. ICML 2024Position: Explain to Question not to Justify
3686. ICML 2024Position: Intent-aligned AI Systems Must Optimize for Agency Preservation
3687. ICML 2024Position: Near to Mid-term Risks and Opportunities of Open-Source Generative AI
3688. ICML 2024Position: Technical Research and Talent is Needed for Effective AI Governance
3689. ICML 2024Position: The No Free Lunch Theorem, Kolmogorov Complexity, and the Role of Inductive Biases in Machine Learning
3690. ICML 2024Position: Towards Unified Alignment Between Agents, Humans, and Environment
3691. ICML 2024Position: TrustLLM: Trustworthiness in Large Language Models
3692. ICML 2024Positive and Unlabeled Learning with Controlled Probability Boundary Fence
3693. ICML 2024Preference Optimization for Molecule Synthesis with Conditional Residual Energy-based Models
3694. ICML 2024Pricing with Contextual Elasticity and Heteroscedastic Valuation
3695. ICML 2024Principled Penalty-based Methods for Bilevel Reinforcement Learning and RLHF
3696. ICML 2024Private and Federated Stochastic Convex Optimization: Efficient Strategies for Centralized Systems
3697. ICML 2024Probabilistic Inference in Language Models via Twisted Sequential Monte Carlo
3698. ICML 2024Promoting External and Internal Equities Under Ex-Ante/Ex-Post Metrics in Online Resource Allocation
3699. ICML 2024Prompting4Debugging: Red-Teaming Text-to-Image Diffusion Models by Finding Problematic Prompts
3700. ICML 2024Provably Robust DPO: Aligning Language Models with Noisy Feedback

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.