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

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351. ICLR 2026More Than What Was Chosen: LLM-based Explainable Recommendation Beyond Noisy User Preferences
352. ICLR 2026MoReBench: Evaluating Procedural and Pluralistic Moral Reasoning in Language Models, More than Outcomes
353. ICLR 2026mR3: Multilingual Rubric-Agnostic Reward Reasoning Models
354. ICLR 2026Multi-Feature Quantized Self-Attention for Fair Large Language Models
355. ICLR 2026Multi-objective Large Language Model Alignment with Hierarchical Experts
356. ICLR 2026Multi-turn Evaluation of Anthropomorphic Behaviours in Large Language Models
357. ICLR 2026Multiplayer Nash Preference Optimization
358. ICLR 2026Narrow Finetuning Leaves Clearly Readable Traces in the Activation Differences
359. ICLR 2026Nasty Adversarial Training: A Probability Sparsity Perspective for Robustness Enhancement
360. ICLR 2026NDAD: Negative-Direction Aware Decoding for Large Language Models via Controllable Hallucination Signal Injection
361. ICLR 2026Neologism Learning for Controllability and Self-Verbalization
362. ICLR 2026NeuCLIP: Efficient Large-Scale CLIP Training with Neural Normalizer Optimization
363. ICLR 2026No, of Course I Can! Deeper Fine-Tuning Attacks That Bypass Token-Level Safety Mechanisms
364. ICLR 2026Noisy-Pair Robust Representation Alignment for Positive-Unlabeled Learning
365. ICLR 2026Non-Clashing Teaching in Graphs: Algorithms, Complexity, and Bounds
366. ICLR 2026NurValues: Real-World Nursing Values Evaluation for Large Language Models in Clinical Context
367. ICLR 2026Obfuscated Activations Bypass LLM Latent-Space Defenses
368. ICLR 2026Obscure but Effective: Classical Chinese Jailbreak Prompt Optimization via Bio-Inspired Search
369. ICLR 2026OffTopicEval: When Large Language Models Enter the Wrong Chat, Almost Always!
370. ICLR 2026OFMU: OPTIMIZATION-DRIVEN FRAMEWORK FOR MACHINE UNLEARNING
371. ICLR 2026Omni-Reward: Towards Generalist Omni-Modal Reward Modeling with Free-Form Preferences
372. ICLR 2026OmniPortrait: Fine-Grained Personalized Portrait Synthesis via Pivotal Optimization
373. ICLR 2026On Fairness of Task Arithmetic: The Role of Task Vectors
374. ICLR 2026On Optimal Hyperparameters for Differentially Private Deep Transfer Learning
375. ICLR 2026On the Alignment Between Supervised and Self-Supervised Contrastive Learning
376. ICLR 2026On the Impossibility of Separating Intelligence from Judgment: The Computational Intractability of Filtering for AI Alignment
377. ICLR 2026On the Interaction of Compressibility and Adversarial Robustness
378. ICLR 2026Only Brains Align with Brains: Cross-Region Patterns Expose Limits of Normative Models
379. ICLR 2026OpenAgentSafety: A Comprehensive Framework For Evaluating Real-World AI Agent Safety
380. ICLR 2026Operationalizing Data Minimization for Privacy-Preserving LLM Prompting
381. ICLR 2026OPPO: Accelerating PPO-based RLHF via Pipeline Overlap
382. ICLR 2026Optimal Transport-Induced Samples against Out-of-Distribution Overconfidence
383. ICLR 2026Optimas: Optimizing Compound AI Systems with Globally Aligned Local Rewards
384. ICLR 2026Optimizing Agent Planning for Security and Autonomy
385. ICLR 2026Optimizing Canaries for Privacy Auditing with Metagradient Descent
386. ICLR 2026Optimizing ID Consistency in Multimodal Large Models: Facial Restoration via Alignment, Entanglement, and Disentanglement
387. ICLR 2026ORION: Decoupling and Alignment for Unified Autoregressive Understanding and Generation
388. ICLR 2026OrthAlign: Orthogonal Subspace Decomposition for Non-Interfering Multi-Objective Alignment
389. ICLR 2026Out of the Shadows: Exploring a Latent Space for Neural Network Verification
390. ICLR 2026Output Supervision Can Obfuscate the Chain of Thought
391. ICLR 2026Oversmoothing, "Oversquashing'', Heterophily, Long-Range, and more: Demystifying Common Beliefs in Graph Machine Learning
392. ICLR 2026P-GenRM: Personalized Generative Reward Model with Test-time User-based Scaling
393. ICLR 2026P$^2$-DPO:Grounding Hallucination in Perceptual Processing via Calibration Direct Preference Optimization
394. ICLR 2026PACEbench: A Framework for Evaluating Practical AI Cyber-Exploitation Capabilities
395. ICLR 2026PALC: Preference Alignment via Logit Calibration
396. ICLR 2026PAMDP: Interact to Persona Alignment via a Partially Observable Markov Decision Process
397. ICLR 2026Parameterized Hardness of Zonotope Containment and Neural Network Verification
398. ICLR 2026PCPO: Proportionate Credit Policy Optimization for Preference Alignment of Image Generation Models
399. ICLR 2026PE-SGD: Differentially Private Deep Learning via Evolution of Gradient Subspace for Text
400. ICLR 2026Person-Centric Annotations of LAION-400M: Auditing Bias and Its Transfer to Models

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.