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

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401. NeurIPS 2023SEVA: Leveraging sketches to evaluate alignment between human and machine visual abstraction
402. NeurIPS 2023SPA: A Graph Spectral Alignment Perspective for Domain Adaptation
403. NeurIPS 2023SpatialRank: Urban Event Ranking with NDCG Optimization on Spatiotemporal Data
404. NeurIPS 2023Stability and Generalization of the Decentralized Stochastic Gradient Descent Ascent Algorithm
405. NeurIPS 2023Stability of Random Forests and Coverage of Random-Forest Prediction Intervals
406. NeurIPS 2023Statistical and Computational Trade-off in Multi-Agent Multi-Armed Bandits
407. NeurIPS 2023Statistical Limits of Adaptive Linear Models: Low-Dimensional Estimation and Inference
408. NeurIPS 2023StEik: Stabilizing the Optimization of Neural Signed Distance Functions and Finer Shape Representation
409. NeurIPS 2023Stochastic Distributed Optimization under Average Second-order Similarity: Algorithms and Analysis
410. NeurIPS 2023Stochastic Multi-armed Bandits: Optimal Trade-off among Optimality, Consistency, and Tail Risk
411. NeurIPS 2023Strong and Precise Modulation of Human Percepts via Robustified ANNs
412. NeurIPS 2023Temperature Balancing, Layer-wise Weight Analysis, and Neural Network Training
413. NeurIPS 2023Text Alignment Is An Efficient Unified Model for Massive NLP Tasks
414. NeurIPS 2023The Behavior and Convergence of Local Bayesian Optimization
415. NeurIPS 2023The Equivalence of Dynamic and Strategic Stability under Regularized Learning in Games
416. NeurIPS 2023The Geometry of Neural Nets' Parameter Spaces Under Reparametrization
417. NeurIPS 2023Theoretical and Practical Perspectives on what Influence Functions Do
418. NeurIPS 2023Thought Cloning: Learning to Think while Acting by Imitating Human Thinking
419. NeurIPS 2023Three-Way Trade-Off in Multi-Objective Learning: Optimization, Generalization and Conflict-Avoidance
420. NeurIPS 2023Time-Reversed Dissipation Induces Duality Between Minimizing Gradient Norm and Function Value
421. NeurIPS 2023Topological Parallax: A Geometric Specification for Deep Perception Models
422. NeurIPS 2023Topological RANSAC for instance verification and retrieval without fine-tuning
423. NeurIPS 2023Towards Automated Circuit Discovery for Mechanistic Interpretability
424. NeurIPS 2023Towards Better Dynamic Graph Learning: New Architecture and Unified Library
425. NeurIPS 2023Towards Efficient and Accurate Winograd Convolution via Full Quantization
426. NeurIPS 2023Towards Robust and Expressive Whole-body Human Pose and Shape Estimation
427. NeurIPS 2023Trajectory Alignment: Understanding the Edge of Stability Phenomenon via Bifurcation Theory
428. NeurIPS 2023TRIAGE: Characterizing and auditing training data for improved regression
429. NeurIPS 2023Trust Region-Based Safe Distributional Reinforcement Learning for Multiple Constraints
430. NeurIPS 2023Tuning Multi-mode Token-level Prompt Alignment across Modalities
431. NeurIPS 2023UDC-SIT: A Real-World Dataset for Under-Display Cameras
432. NeurIPS 2023Unbiased Compression Saves Communication in Distributed Optimization: When and How Much?
433. NeurIPS 2023Understanding and Mitigating Copying in Diffusion Models
434. NeurIPS 2023Understanding Multi-phase Optimization Dynamics and Rich Nonlinear Behaviors of ReLU Networks
435. NeurIPS 2023Unlocking Feature Visualization for Deep Network with MAgnitude Constrained Optimization
436. NeurIPS 2023VisAlign: Dataset for Measuring the Alignment between AI and Humans in Visual Perception
437. NeurIPS 2023What You See is What You Read? Improving Text-Image Alignment Evaluation
438. NeurIPS 2023Worst-case Performance of Popular Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search Implementations: Guarantees and Limitations

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.