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 83 of 92

4101. NeurIPS 2024Value Imprint: A Technique for Auditing the Human Values Embedded in RLHF Datasets
4102. NeurIPS 2024Verifiably Robust Conformal Prediction
4103. NeurIPS 2024Verified Safe Reinforcement Learning for Neural Network Dynamic Models
4104. NeurIPS 2024WAGLE: Strategic Weight Attribution for Effective and Modular Unlearning in Large Language Models
4105. NeurIPS 2024Watch Out for Your Agents! Investigating Backdoor Threats to LLM-Based Agents
4106. NeurIPS 2024WaterMax: breaking the LLM watermark detectability-robustness-quality trade-off
4107. NeurIPS 2024WaveAttack: Asymmetric Frequency Obfuscation-based Backdoor Attacks Against Deep Neural Networks
4108. NeurIPS 2024Weak-to-Strong Search: Align Large Language Models via Searching over Small Language Models
4109. NeurIPS 2024WeiPer: OOD Detection using Weight Perturbations of Class Projections
4110. NeurIPS 2024What If the Input is Expanded in OOD Detection?
4111. NeurIPS 2024What Makes and Breaks Safety Fine-tuning? A Mechanistic Study
4112. NeurIPS 2024When does perceptual alignment benefit vision representations?
4113. NeurIPS 2024When LLM Meets DRL: Advancing Jailbreaking Efficiency via DRL-guided Search
4114. NeurIPS 2024When Your AIs Deceive You: Challenges of Partial Observability in Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback
4115. NeurIPS 2024Who's asking? User personas and the mechanics of latent misalignment
4116. NeurIPS 2024WildGuard: Open One-stop Moderation Tools for Safety Risks, Jailbreaks, and Refusals of LLMs
4117. NeurIPS 2024WildTeaming at Scale: From In-the-Wild Jailbreaks to (Adversarially) Safer Language Models
4118. NeurIPS 2024Would I Lie To You? Inference Time Alignment of Language Models using Direct Preference Heads
4119. NeurIPS 2024Your contrastive learning problem is secretly a distribution alignment problem
4120. NeurIPS 2024ZeroMark: Towards Dataset Ownership Verification without Disclosing Watermark
4121. CVPR 2023A Meta-Learning Approach to Predicting Performance and Data Requirements
4122. CVPR 2023A Unified HDR Imaging Method With Pixel and Patch Level
4123. CVPR 2023A Unified Spatial-Angular Structured Light for Single-View Acquisition of Shape and Reflectance
4124. CVPR 2023Adjustment and Alignment for Unbiased Open Set Domain Adaptation
4125. CVPR 2023Advancing Visual Grounding With Scene Knowledge: Benchmark and Method
4126. CVPR 2023Align and Attend: Multimodal Summarization With Dual Contrastive Losses
4127. CVPR 2023An In-Depth Exploration of Person Re-Identification and Gait Recognition in Cloth-Changing Conditions
4128. CVPR 2023Analyzing and Diagnosing Pose Estimation With Attributions
4129. CVPR 2023Architecture, Dataset and Model-Scale Agnostic Data-Free Meta-Learning
4130. CVPR 2023Automatic High Resolution Wire Segmentation and Removal
4131. CVPR 2023BASiS: Batch Aligned Spectral Embedding Space
4132. CVPR 2023Bi-Directional Distribution Alignment for Transductive Zero-Shot Learning
4133. CVPR 2023Bitstream-Corrupted JPEG Images Are Restorable: Two-Stage Compensation and Alignment Framework for Image Restoration
4134. CVPR 2023Blemish-Aware and Progressive Face Retouching With Limited Paired Data
4135. CVPR 2023Bootstrapping Objectness From Videos by Relaxed Common Fate and Visual Grouping
4136. CVPR 2023Burstormer: Burst Image Restoration and Enhancement Transformer
4137. CVPR 2023CaPriDe Learning: Confidential and Private Decentralized Learning Based on Encryption-Friendly Distillation Loss
4138. CVPR 2023CARTO: Category and Joint Agnostic Reconstruction of ARTiculated Objects
4139. CVPR 2023CHMATCH: Contrastive Hierarchical Matching and Robust Adaptive Threshold Boosted Semi-Supervised Learning
4140. CVPR 2023CLAMP: Prompt-Based Contrastive Learning for Connecting Language and Animal Pose
4141. CVPR 2023Clover: Towards a Unified Video-Language Alignment and Fusion Model
4142. CVPR 2023Complementary Intrinsics From Neural Radiance Fields and CNNs for Outdoor Scene Relighting
4143. CVPR 2023Compositor: Bottom-Up Clustering and Compositing for Robust Part and Object Segmentation
4144. CVPR 2023Context-Aware Alignment and Mutual Masking for 3D-Language Pre-Training
4145. CVPR 2023CVT-SLR: Contrastive Visual-Textual Transformation for Sign Language Recognition With Variational Alignment
4146. CVPR 2023Decoupling Human and Camera Motion From Videos in the Wild
4147. CVPR 2023Deep Fair Clustering via Maximizing and Minimizing Mutual Information: Theory, Algorithm and Metric
4148. CVPR 2023Deep Incomplete Multi-View Clustering With Cross-View Partial Sample and Prototype Alignment
4149. CVPR 2023Defining and Quantifying the Emergence of Sparse Concepts in DNNs
4150. CVPR 2023Diffusion-Based Generation, Optimization, and Planning in 3D Scenes

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.