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 77 of 92

3801. NeurIPS 2024Ask, Attend, Attack: An Effective Decision-Based Black-Box Targeted Attack for Image-to-Text Models
3802. NeurIPS 2024Axioms for AI Alignment from Human Feedback
3803. NeurIPS 2024BackdoorAlign: Mitigating Fine-tuning based Jailbreak Attack with Backdoor Enhanced Safety Alignment
3804. NeurIPS 2024BAN: Detecting Backdoors Activated by Adversarial Neuron Noise
3805. NeurIPS 2024Bayesian-guided Label Mapping for Visual Reprogramming
3806. NeurIPS 2024Benchmarking PtO and PnO Methods in the Predictive Combinatorial Optimization Regime
3807. NeurIPS 2024Beware of Road Markings: A New Adversarial Patch Attack to Monocular Depth Estimation
3808. NeurIPS 2024Beyond Slow Signs in High-fidelity Model Extraction
3809. NeurIPS 2024Bileve: Securing Text Provenance in Large Language Models Against Spoofing with Bi-level Signature
3810. NeurIPS 2024Biomedical Visual Instruction Tuning with Clinician Preference Alignment
3811. NeurIPS 2024BoNBoN Alignment for Large Language Models and the Sweetness of Best-of-n Sampling
3812. NeurIPS 2024Boosting the Potential of Large Language Models with an Intelligent Information Assistant
3813. NeurIPS 2024Boosting the Transferability of Adversarial Attack on Vision Transformer with Adaptive Token Tuning
3814. NeurIPS 2024Breaking the False Sense of Security in Backdoor Defense through Re-Activation Attack
3815. NeurIPS 2024Cal-DPO: Calibrated Direct Preference Optimization for Language Model Alignment
3816. NeurIPS 2024Calibrated Self-Rewarding Vision Language Models
3817. NeurIPS 2024Can an AI Agent Safely Run a Government? Existence of Probably Approximately Aligned Policies
3818. NeurIPS 2024Can Large Language Model Agents Simulate Human Trust Behavior?
3819. NeurIPS 2024Can Models Learn Skill Composition from Examples?
3820. NeurIPS 2024Can Simple Averaging Defeat Modern Watermarks?
3821. NeurIPS 2024Can Transformers Smell Like Humans?
3822. NeurIPS 2024Catastrophic Goodhart: regularizing RLHF with KL divergence does not mitigate heavy-tailed reward misspecification
3823. NeurIPS 2024CausalDiff: Causality-Inspired Disentanglement via Diffusion Model for Adversarial Defense
3824. NeurIPS 2024Certified Adversarial Robustness via Randomized $\alpha$-Smoothing for Regression Models
3825. NeurIPS 2024Certified Robustness for Deep Equilibrium Models via Serialized Random Smoothing
3826. NeurIPS 2024Chain of Preference Optimization: Improving Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in LLMs
3827. NeurIPS 2024Classifier Clustering and Feature Alignment for Federated Learning under Distributed Concept Drift
3828. NeurIPS 2024CLAVE: An Adaptive Framework for Evaluating Values of LLM Generated Responses
3829. NeurIPS 2024CLIPCEIL: Domain Generalization through CLIP via Channel rEfinement and Image-text aLignment
3830. NeurIPS 2024CLUES: Collaborative Private-domain High-quality Data Selection for LLMs via Training Dynamics
3831. NeurIPS 2024CNCA: Toward Customizable and Natural Generation of Adversarial Camouflage for Vehicle Detectors
3832. NeurIPS 2024Coded Computing for Resilient Distributed Computing: A Learning-Theoretic Framework
3833. NeurIPS 2024ColJailBreak: Collaborative Generation and Editing for Jailbreaking Text-to-Image Deep Generation
3834. NeurIPS 2024CoMat: Aligning Text-to-Image Diffusion Model with Image-to-Text Concept Matching
3835. NeurIPS 2024Confidence Calibration of Classifiers with Many Classes
3836. NeurIPS 2024Conformal Alignment: Knowing When to Trust Foundation Models with Guarantees
3837. NeurIPS 2024Conformal Prediction for Class-wise Coverage via Augmented Label Rank Calibration
3838. NeurIPS 2024Conformalized Multiple Testing after Data-dependent Selection
3839. NeurIPS 2024Conformalized Time Series with Semantic Features
3840. NeurIPS 2024Consistency Purification: Effective and Efficient Diffusion Purification towards Certified Robustness
3841. NeurIPS 2024Constrained Adaptive Attack: Effective Adversarial Attack Against Deep Neural Networks for Tabular Data
3842. NeurIPS 2024Constructing Semantics-Aware Adversarial Examples with a Probabilistic Perspective
3843. NeurIPS 2024Contextual Bilevel Reinforcement Learning for Incentive Alignment
3844. NeurIPS 2024Continual Learning with Global Alignment
3845. NeurIPS 2024Cooperate or Collapse: Emergence of Sustainable Cooperation in a Society of LLM Agents
3846. NeurIPS 2024Cross-Modality Perturbation Synergy Attack for Person Re-identification
3847. NeurIPS 2024DACO: Towards Application-Driven and Comprehensive Data Analysis via Code Generation
3848. NeurIPS 2024DarkSAM: Fooling Segment Anything Model to Segment Nothing
3849. NeurIPS 2024DAT: Improving Adversarial Robustness via Generative Amplitude Mix-up in Frequency Domain
3850. NeurIPS 2024Data Free Backdoor Attacks

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.