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 89 of 92

4401. ICML 2023Stochastic Marginal Likelihood Gradients using Neural Tangent Kernels
4402. ICML 2023Straightening Out the Straight-Through Estimator: Overcoming Optimization Challenges in Vector Quantized Networks
4403. ICML 2023Submodular Order Functions and Assortment Optimization
4404. ICML 2023Subsample Ridge Ensembles: Equivalences and Generalized Cross-Validation
4405. ICML 2023SurProGenes: Survival Risk-Ordered Representation of Cancer Patients and Genes for the Identification of Prognostic Genes
4406. ICML 2023Surrogate Model Extension (SME): A Fast and Accurate Weight Update Attack on Federated Learning
4407. ICML 2023Text-To-Concept (and Back) via Cross-Model Alignment
4408. ICML 2023The Blessing of Heterogeneity in Federated Q-Learning: Linear Speedup and Beyond
4409. ICML 2023The SSL Interplay: Augmentations, Inductive Bias, and Generalization
4410. ICML 2023The Wisdom of Hindsight Makes Language Models Better Instruction Followers
4411. ICML 2023Thompson Sampling with Less Exploration is Fast and Optimal
4412. ICML 2023Tighter Lower Bounds for Shuffling SGD: Random Permutations and Beyond
4413. ICML 2023Towards Robust and Safe Reinforcement Learning with Benign Off-policy Data
4414. ICML 2023Trading-Off Payments and Accuracy in Online Classification with Paid Stochastic Experts
4415. ICML 2023Uncertain Evidence in Probabilistic Models and Stochastic Simulators
4416. ICML 2023Understand and Modularize Generator Optimization in ELECTRA-style Pretraining
4417. ICML 2023Using Perturbation to Improve Goodness-of-Fit Tests based on Kernelized Stein Discrepancy
4418. ICML 2023What Can Be Learnt With Wide Convolutional Neural Networks?
4419. ICML 2023When and How Does Known Class Help Discover Unknown Ones? Provable Understanding Through Spectral Analysis
4420. ICML 2023When do Minimax-fair Learning and Empirical Risk Minimization Coincide?
4421. NeurIPS 2023(S)GD over Diagonal Linear Networks: Implicit bias, Large Stepsizes and Edge of Stability
4422. NeurIPS 2023[Re] Bandit Theory and Thompson Sampling-guided Directed Evolution for Sequence Optimization
4423. NeurIPS 2023[Re] VAE Approximation Error: ELBO and Exponential Families
4424. NeurIPS 2023A Combinatorial Algorithm for Approximating the Optimal Transport in the Parallel and MPC Settings
4425. NeurIPS 2023A Holistic Approach to Unifying Automatic Concept Extraction and Concept Importance Estimation
4426. NeurIPS 2023A Spectral Theory of Neural Prediction and Alignment
4427. NeurIPS 2023Abide by the law and follow the flow: conservation laws for gradient flows
4428. NeurIPS 2023Alignment with human representations supports robust few-shot learning
4429. NeurIPS 2023Alternating Gradient Descent and Mixture-of-Experts for Integrated Multimodal Perception
4430. NeurIPS 2023BeaverTails: Towards Improved Safety Alignment of LLM via a Human-Preference Dataset
4431. NeurIPS 2023BEDD: The MineRL BASALT Evaluation and Demonstrations Dataset for Training and Benchmarking Agents that Solve Fuzzy Tasks
4432. NeurIPS 2023Behavior Alignment via Reward Function Optimization
4433. NeurIPS 2023Bounce: Reliable High-Dimensional Bayesian Optimization for Combinatorial and Mixed Spaces
4434. NeurIPS 2023Brain-like Flexible Visual Inference by Harnessing Feedback Feedforward Alignment
4435. NeurIPS 2023Bridging Discrete and Backpropagation: Straight-Through and Beyond
4436. NeurIPS 2023Cascading Contextual Assortment Bandits
4437. NeurIPS 2023Closing the gap between the upper bound and lower bound of Adam's iteration complexity
4438. NeurIPS 2023Collaborative Alignment of NLP Models
4439. NeurIPS 2023Convex and Non-convex Optimization Under Generalized Smoothness
4440. NeurIPS 2023Data-Dependent Bounds for Online Portfolio Selection Without Lipschitzness and Smoothness
4441. NeurIPS 2023Data-Driven Network Neuroscience: On Data Collection and Benchmark
4442. NeurIPS 2023Decentralized Matrix Sensing: Statistical Guarantees and Fast Convergence
4443. NeurIPS 2023Degraded Polygons Raise Fundamental Questions of Neural Network Perception
4444. NeurIPS 2023DICES Dataset: Diversity in Conversational AI Evaluation for Safety
4445. NeurIPS 2023Direct Preference Optimization: Your Language Model is Secretly a Reward Model
4446. NeurIPS 2023Direct Preference-based Policy Optimization without Reward Modeling
4447. NeurIPS 2023Discover and Align Taxonomic Context Priors for Open-world Semi-Supervised Learning
4448. NeurIPS 2023Domain Watermark: Effective and Harmless Dataset Copyright Protection is Closed at Hand
4449. NeurIPS 2023Don’t blame Dataset Shift! Shortcut Learning due to Gradients and Cross Entropy
4450. NeurIPS 2023Effective Human-AI Teams via Learned Natural Language Rules and Onboarding

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.