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 91 of 92

4501. NeurIPS 2023Quantus: An Explainable AI Toolkit for Responsible Evaluation of Neural Network Explanations and Beyond
4502. NeurIPS 2023Rank-1 Matrix Completion with Gradient Descent and Small Random Initialization
4503. NeurIPS 2023Red Teaming Deep Neural Networks with Feature Synthesis Tools
4504. NeurIPS 2023Regret Matching+: (In)Stability and Fast Convergence in Games
4505. NeurIPS 2023Residual Alignment: Uncovering the Mechanisms of Residual Networks
4506. NeurIPS 2023Resolving the Tug-of-War: A Separation of Communication and Learning in Federated Learning
4507. NeurIPS 2023Responsible AI (RAI) Games and Ensembles
4508. NeurIPS 2023Revisiting Evaluation Metrics for Semantic Segmentation: Optimization and Evaluation of Fine-grained Intersection over Union
4509. NeurIPS 2023Reward Finetuning for Faster and More Accurate Unsupervised Object Discovery
4510. NeurIPS 2023Rewarded soups: towards Pareto-optimal alignment by interpolating weights fine-tuned on diverse rewards
4511. NeurIPS 2023Robust covariance estimation with missing values and cell-wise contamination
4512. NeurIPS 2023Robust Distributed Learning: Tight Error Bounds and Breakdown Point under Data Heterogeneity
4513. NeurIPS 2023RRHF: Rank Responses to Align Language Models with Human Feedback
4514. NeurIPS 2023Safe Exploration in Reinforcement Learning: A Generalized Formulation and Algorithms
4515. NeurIPS 2023SafeDICE: Offline Safe Imitation Learning with Non-Preferred Demonstrations
4516. NeurIPS 2023Safety Verification of Decision-Tree Policies in Continuous Time
4517. NeurIPS 2023Sample Complexity for Quadratic Bandits: Hessian Dependent Bounds and Optimal Algorithms
4518. NeurIPS 2023Self-supervised video pretraining yields robust and more human-aligned visual representations
4519. NeurIPS 2023Sequential Predictive Two-Sample and Independence Testing
4520. NeurIPS 2023Sequential Preference Ranking for Efficient Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback
4521. NeurIPS 2023SEVA: Leveraging sketches to evaluate alignment between human and machine visual abstraction
4522. NeurIPS 2023SPA: A Graph Spectral Alignment Perspective for Domain Adaptation
4523. NeurIPS 2023SpatialRank: Urban Event Ranking with NDCG Optimization on Spatiotemporal Data
4524. NeurIPS 2023Stability and Generalization of the Decentralized Stochastic Gradient Descent Ascent Algorithm
4525. NeurIPS 2023Stability of Random Forests and Coverage of Random-Forest Prediction Intervals
4526. NeurIPS 2023Statistical and Computational Trade-off in Multi-Agent Multi-Armed Bandits
4527. NeurIPS 2023Statistical Limits of Adaptive Linear Models: Low-Dimensional Estimation and Inference
4528. NeurIPS 2023StEik: Stabilizing the Optimization of Neural Signed Distance Functions and Finer Shape Representation
4529. NeurIPS 2023Stochastic Distributed Optimization under Average Second-order Similarity: Algorithms and Analysis
4530. NeurIPS 2023Stochastic Multi-armed Bandits: Optimal Trade-off among Optimality, Consistency, and Tail Risk
4531. NeurIPS 2023Strong and Precise Modulation of Human Percepts via Robustified ANNs
4532. NeurIPS 2023Temperature Balancing, Layer-wise Weight Analysis, and Neural Network Training
4533. NeurIPS 2023Text Alignment Is An Efficient Unified Model for Massive NLP Tasks
4534. NeurIPS 2023The Behavior and Convergence of Local Bayesian Optimization
4535. NeurIPS 2023The Equivalence of Dynamic and Strategic Stability under Regularized Learning in Games
4536. NeurIPS 2023The Geometry of Neural Nets' Parameter Spaces Under Reparametrization
4537. NeurIPS 2023Theoretical and Practical Perspectives on what Influence Functions Do
4538. NeurIPS 2023Thought Cloning: Learning to Think while Acting by Imitating Human Thinking
4539. NeurIPS 2023Three-Way Trade-Off in Multi-Objective Learning: Optimization, Generalization and Conflict-Avoidance
4540. NeurIPS 2023Time-Reversed Dissipation Induces Duality Between Minimizing Gradient Norm and Function Value
4541. NeurIPS 2023Topological Parallax: A Geometric Specification for Deep Perception Models
4542. NeurIPS 2023Topological RANSAC for instance verification and retrieval without fine-tuning
4543. NeurIPS 2023Towards Automated Circuit Discovery for Mechanistic Interpretability
4544. NeurIPS 2023Towards Better Dynamic Graph Learning: New Architecture and Unified Library
4545. NeurIPS 2023Towards Efficient and Accurate Winograd Convolution via Full Quantization
4546. NeurIPS 2023Towards Robust and Expressive Whole-body Human Pose and Shape Estimation
4547. NeurIPS 2023Trajectory Alignment: Understanding the Edge of Stability Phenomenon via Bifurcation Theory
4548. NeurIPS 2023TRIAGE: Characterizing and auditing training data for improved regression
4549. NeurIPS 2023Trust Region-Based Safe Distributional Reinforcement Learning for Multiple Constraints
4550. NeurIPS 2023Tuning Multi-mode Token-level Prompt Alignment across Modalities

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.