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
- 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.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 138 | 87 | 101 | 112 | 438 |
| 2024 | 348 | 156 | 246 | 125 | 875 |
| 2025 | 455 | 473 | 300 | 135 | 1,363 |
| 2026 | 480 | 623 | 551 | 228 | 1,882 |
Representative papers
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- 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 84 of 92
- CVPR 2023DiGA: Distil To Generalize and Then Adapt for Domain Adaptive Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2023DISC: Learning From Noisy Labels via Dynamic Instance-Specific Selection and Correction
- CVPR 2023DistractFlow: Improving Optical Flow Estimation via Realistic Distractions and Pseudo-Labeling
- CVPR 2023DNF: Decouple and Feedback Network for Seeing in the Dark
- CVPR 2023Don't Lie to Me! Robust and Efficient Explainability With Verified Perturbation Analysis
- CVPR 2023DSFNet: Dual Space Fusion Network for Occlusion-Robust 3D Dense Face Alignment
- CVPR 2023EDA: Explicit Text-Decoupling and Dense Alignment for 3D Visual Grounding
- CVPR 2023Efficient Map Sparsification Based on 2D and 3D Discretized Grids
- CVPR 2023EXCALIBUR: Encouraging and Evaluating Embodied Exploration
- CVPR 2023EXIF As Language: Learning Cross-Modal Associations Between Images and Camera Metadata
- CVPR 2023Exploring and Utilizing Pattern Imbalance
- CVPR 2023Exploring Motion Ambiguity and Alignment for High-Quality Video Frame Interpolation
- CVPR 2023Feature Alignment and Uniformity for Test Time Adaptation
- CVPR 2023Few-Shot Learning With Visual Distribution Calibration and Cross-Modal Distribution Alignment
- CVPR 2023Frame Flexible Network
- CVPR 2023Frame-Event Alignment and Fusion Network for High Frame Rate Tracking
- CVPR 2023Gated Multi-Resolution Transfer Network for Burst Restoration and Enhancement
- CVPR 2023Gated Stereo: Joint Depth Estimation From Gated and Wide-Baseline Active Stereo Cues
- CVPR 2023Generalist: Decoupling Natural and Robust Generalization
- CVPR 2023Gradient Norm Aware Minimization Seeks First-Order Flatness and Improves Generalization
- CVPR 2023Hand Avatar: Free-Pose Hand Animation and Rendering From Monocular Video
- CVPR 2023Handy: Towards a High Fidelity 3D Hand Shape and Appearance Model
- CVPR 2023HelixSurf: A Robust and Efficient Neural Implicit Surface Learning of Indoor Scenes With Iterative Intertwined Regularization
- CVPR 2023High-Res Facial Appearance Capture From Polarized Smartphone Images
- CVPR 2023How To Prevent the Continuous Damage of Noises To Model Training?
- CVPR 2023HRDFuse: Monocular 360deg Depth Estimation by Collaboratively Learning Holistic-With-Regional Depth Distributions
- CVPR 2023Human Body Shape Completion With Implicit Shape and Flow Learning
- CVPR 2023Implicit 3D Human Mesh Recovery Using Consistency With Pose and Shape From Unseen-View
- CVPR 2023Implicit Occupancy Flow Fields for Perception and Prediction in Self-Driving
- CVPR 2023Improving Table Structure Recognition With Visual-Alignment Sequential Coordinate Modeling
- CVPR 2023Invertible Neural Skinning
- CVPR 2023K-Planes: Explicit Radiance Fields in Space, Time, and Appearance
- CVPR 2023Large-Capacity and Flexible Video Steganography via Invertible Neural Network
- CVPR 2023Learning Emotion Representations From Verbal and Nonverbal Communication
- CVPR 2023Learning To Generate Language-Supervised and Open-Vocabulary Scene Graph Using Pre-Trained Visual-Semantic Space
- CVPR 2023Learning To Zoom and Unzoom
- CVPR 2023MACARONS: Mapping and Coverage Anticipation With RGB Online Self-Supervision
- CVPR 2023MEGANE: Morphable Eyeglass and Avatar Network
- CVPR 2023NIKI: Neural Inverse Kinematics With Invertible Neural Networks for 3D Human Pose and Shape Estimation
- CVPR 2023NS3D: Neuro-Symbolic Grounding of 3D Objects and Relations
- CVPR 2023On Calibrating Semantic Segmentation Models: Analyses and an Algorithm
- CVPR 2023On the Convergence of IRLS and Its Variants in Outlier-Robust Estimation
- CVPR 2023On the Effects of Self-Supervision and Contrastive Alignment in Deep Multi-View Clustering
- CVPR 2023OSAN: A One-Stage Alignment Network To Unify Multimodal Alignment and Unsupervised Domain Adaptation
- CVPR 2023Overcoming the Trade-Off Between Accuracy and Plausibility in 3D Hand Shape Reconstruction
- CVPR 2023PACO: Parts and Attributes of Common Objects
- CVPR 2023Parts2Words: Learning Joint Embedding of Point Clouds and Texts by Bidirectional Matching Between Parts and Words
- CVPR 2023Physically Adversarial Infrared Patches With Learnable Shapes and Locations
- CVPR 2023PosterLayout: A New Benchmark and Approach for Content-Aware Visual-Textual Presentation Layout
- CVPR 2023Prefix Conditioning Unifies Language and Label Supervision
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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.