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 88 of 92

4351. ICML 2023Fascinating Supervisory Signals and Where to Find Them: Deep Anomaly Detection with Scale Learning
4352. ICML 2023Fast, Differentiable and Sparse Top-k: a Convex Analysis Perspective
4353. ICML 2023Federated Online and Bandit Convex Optimization
4354. ICML 2023Finding Generalization Measures by Contrasting Signal and Noise
4355. ICML 2023Finite-Sample Analysis of Learning High-Dimensional Single ReLU Neuron
4356. ICML 2023Gradient Descent Monotonically Decreases the Sharpness of Gradient Flow Solutions in Scalar Networks and Beyond
4357. ICML 2023Graph Neural Networks with Learnable and Optimal Polynomial Bases
4358. ICML 2023High-Probability Bounds for Stochastic Optimization and Variational Inequalities: the Case of Unbounded Variance
4359. ICML 2023How Powerful are Shallow Neural Networks with Bandlimited Random Weights?
4360. ICML 2023Implicit Jacobian regularization weighted with impurity of probability output
4361. ICML 2023Incentivizing Exploration with Linear Contexts and Combinatorial Actions
4362. ICML 2023Invariance in Policy Optimisation and Partial Identifiability in Reward Learning
4363. ICML 2023Learning Expressive Priors for Generalization and Uncertainty Estimation in Neural Networks
4364. ICML 2023Learning Mixtures of Markov Chains and MDPs
4365. ICML 2023Let's Make Block Coordinate Descent Converge Faster: Faster Greedy Rules, Message-Passing, Active-Set Complexity, and Superlinear Convergence
4366. ICML 2023Maximum Optimality Margin: A Unified Approach for Contextual Linear Programming and Inverse Linear Programming
4367. ICML 2023Meta Optimal Transport
4368. ICML 2023Multi-Agent Online Optimization with Delays: Asynchronicity, Adaptivity, and Optimism
4369. ICML 2023Near-Optimal Cryptographic Hardness of Agnostically Learning Halfspaces and ReLU Regression under Gaussian Marginals
4370. ICML 2023Nearly Optimal Competitive Ratio for Online Allocation Problems with Two-sided Resource Constraints and Finite Requests
4371. ICML 2023Neural Latent Aligner: Cross-trial Alignment for Learning Representations of Complex, Naturalistic Neural Data
4372. ICML 2023Nonparametric Iterative Machine Teaching
4373. ICML 2023On Bridging the Gap between Mean Field and Finite Width Deep Random Multilayer Perceptron with Batch Normalization
4374. ICML 2023On Over-Squashing in Message Passing Neural Networks: The Impact of Width, Depth, and Topology
4375. ICML 2023On Preemption and Learning in Stochastic Scheduling
4376. ICML 2023On Regularization and Inference with Label Constraints
4377. ICML 2023On the Functional Similarity of Robust and Non-Robust Neural Representations
4378. ICML 2023On the Interplay Between Misspecification and Sub-optimality Gap in Linear Contextual Bandits
4379. ICML 2023Online Prototype Alignment for Few-shot Policy Transfer
4380. ICML 2023Optimal Sets and Solution Paths of ReLU Networks
4381. ICML 2023Optimistic Online Mirror Descent for Bridging Stochastic and Adversarial Online Convex Optimization
4382. ICML 2023Polarity Is All You Need to Learn and Transfer Faster
4383. ICML 2023Primal and Dual Analysis of Entropic Fictitious Play for Finite-sum Problems
4384. ICML 2023Project and Forget: Solving Large-Scale Metric Constrained Problems
4385. ICML 2023Prometheus: Taming Sample and Communication Complexities in Constrained Decentralized Stochastic Bilevel Learning
4386. ICML 2023ProtST: Multi-Modality Learning of Protein Sequences and Biomedical Texts
4387. ICML 2023Provably and Practically Efficient Neural Contextual Bandits
4388. ICML 2023Regularization-free Diffeomorphic Temporal Alignment Nets
4389. ICML 2023Revisiting Gradient Clipping: Stochastic bias and tight convergence guarantees
4390. ICML 2023Revisiting Over-smoothing and Over-squashing Using Ollivier-Ricci Curvature
4391. ICML 2023Robust and private stochastic linear bandits
4392. ICML 2023Robust and Scalable Bayesian Online Changepoint Detection
4393. ICML 2023Robust Consensus in Ranking Data Analysis: Definitions, Properties and Computational Issues
4394. ICML 2023Scalable Set Encoding with Universal Mini-Batch Consistency and Unbiased Full Set Gradient Approximation
4395. ICML 2023Semi Bandit dynamics in Congestion Games: Convergence to Nash Equilibrium and No-Regret Guarantees.
4396. ICML 2023Semi-Dual Unbalanced Quadratic Optimal Transport: fast statistical rates and convergent algorithm.
4397. ICML 2023SGD with AdaGrad Stepsizes: Full Adaptivity with High Probability to Unknown Parameters, Unbounded Gradients and Affine Variance
4398. ICML 2023Simple Disentanglement of Style and Content in Visual Representations
4399. ICML 2023SpENCNN: Orchestrating Encoding and Sparsity for Fast Homomorphically Encrypted Neural Network Inference
4400. ICML 2023Spurious Valleys and Clustering Behavior of Neural Networks

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.