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

480 papers, page 9 of 10

401. NeurIPS 2026Steering Frozen LLMs: Adaptive Social Alignment via Online Prompt Routing
402. NeurIPS 2026StiCAS: Compositional Activation Steering via Stiefel Manifold Coordinate Transport
403. NeurIPS 2026Stitched Value Model for Diffusion Alignment
404. NeurIPS 2026Stochastic Optimization with Random Search
405. NeurIPS 2026STParOpt: An End-to-End Framework for Execution-Aware Parallelism Inference and Optimized CUDA Migration
406. NeurIPS 2026Strategic Causal Policy Learning: Welfare, Safety, and Fairness Thresholds
407. NeurIPS 2026Strategic Feature Selection and Regularization
408. NeurIPS 2026Stress Testing Chain-of-Thought Monitoring Against Covert Misalignment
409. NeurIPS 2026Strong Helps Weak: Directional Cross-Modal Alignment Transfer in Multi-modal LLMs
410. NeurIPS 2026StyleRoute: Diffusion Style Transfer via Regional Routing and Conflict-aware Projection
411. NeurIPS 2026Subliminal Learning as Trait-Direction Drift: A Mechanism and Targeted Control under SFT Distillation
412. NeurIPS 2026Supervised Distributional Reduction via Optimal Transport and Dependence Maximization
413. NeurIPS 2026Surprisingly consistent failures of post-hoc OOD detectors reveal security concerns in open-set recognition with modern CNNs and ViTs, stemming from representation mismatch
414. NeurIPS 2026SynGeo: Synergizing Seeing and Proving through Revisable Geometric States
415. NeurIPS 2026Synthetic Anchor-Assisted Prototype Alignment for Heterogeneous Federated Learning
416. NeurIPS 2026TailGuard: Subgroup Tail Coverage Theory for Safe LLM Alignment
417. NeurIPS 2026Take It or Leave It: Intent-Controlled Partial Optimal Transport
418. NeurIPS 2026Tcell: Mitigating Harmful Fine-tuning for Large Language Models via Gradient Alignment
419. NeurIPS 2026Temporal Concentration from Rollout Errors: Implicit Preference Optimization For Text-to-Video Diffusion
420. NeurIPS 2026Temporal Prototype Alignment for Frozen-Feature Dataset Distillation
421. NeurIPS 2026Text as Partial Constraint: Core–Residual Alignment for Robust Vision–Language Learning
422. NeurIPS 2026The Alignment Illusion in Multimodal Large Language Models
423. NeurIPS 2026The Alignment Tax Concentrates in Output Projections
424. NeurIPS 2026The Block Catastrophe of Marginal Calibration in Certified Requirements Traceability
425. NeurIPS 2026The Constitutional Coverage Trilemma in AI Governance
426. NeurIPS 2026The Geometry of Alignment Collapse: When Fine-Tuning Breaks Safety
427. NeurIPS 2026The Kernel Reality Check: Benchmarking and Distilling Efficient Attention at Scale
428. NeurIPS 2026The Many Faces of On-Policy Distillation: Pitfalls, Mechanisms, and Fixes
429. NeurIPS 2026The Path Not Taken: RLVR Learns Off the Principals
430. NeurIPS 2026The Piggyback Hypothesis of Generalization: Explaining and Mitigating Emergent Misalignment
431. NeurIPS 2026The Post-Training Dilemma: Why We Should Rethink the Sequential SFT-RL Paradigm
432. NeurIPS 2026The Structural Bias of $\ell_2$-Regularized Cross-Entropy Heads in Class-Incremental Learning: Characterization, Limits, and a Gauge-Anchoring Fix
433. NeurIPS 2026The Value of Covariance Matching in Gaussian DDPMs and the Lanczos Sampler
434. NeurIPS 2026TherapyGym: Evaluating and Aligning Clinical Fidelity and Safety in Therapy Chatbots
435. NeurIPS 2026There are Levels to It: Red Teaming LLMs with Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning
436. NeurIPS 2026ThinkSafe: Self-Generated Safety Alignment for Reasoning Models
437. NeurIPS 2026Tight PAC-Bayes Generalisation Guarantees for Large Language Model Safety Monitoring
438. NeurIPS 2026Too Smart to Teach: The Articulability Ceiling in Language Models
439. NeurIPS 2026Towards Multi-Human-Value Alignment via Value Localization in LLMs
440. NeurIPS 2026Towards Understanding the Power and Limits of the Muon Optimizer: A River-Valley Perspective
441. NeurIPS 2026TPO: Tri-level Distributionally Robust Learning for OOD Direct Preference Optimization
442. NeurIPS 2026Training-Free 3D Editing via Feature-Divergence Localization and Trajectory Correction
443. NeurIPS 2026Training-Free Cultural Alignment of Large Language Models via Persona Disagreement
444. NeurIPS 2026Tree-Ensemble Repair through Constrained Optimization
445. NeurIPS 2026Tree-Guided Identify Then Exploit: A Unified Framework of Pure Exploration and Regret Minimization for Dueling Bandits
446. NeurIPS 2026Tree-Structured Synergy of Large Language Models and Bayesian Optimization for Efficient CASH
447. NeurIPS 2026TROPT: An Open Framework for Unifying and Advancing Discrete Text Optimization
448. NeurIPS 2026Two Speeds of Learning: A Representation-Readout Decomposition of Grokking and Double Descent
449. NeurIPS 2026Two-Level Softmax Sampling Done Right: Correcting Bias from Size Imbalance and Dispersion
450. NeurIPS 2026Ultra-DPO: Reimagining LLM Alignment as a Semi-Supervised Task

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.