Alignment and Safety papers, 2023–2026

RLHF, preference optimization, red-teaming, and safety alignment

Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 4,558 papers are tagged with this topic.

Key findings

Papers per year

Papers per venue

Counts by year and venue

Alignment and Safety papers by year and venue
YearNeurIPSICLRICMLCVPRTotal
202313887101112438
2024348156246125875
20254554733001351,363
20264806235512281,882

Representative papers

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All Alignment and Safety papers

246 papers, page 1 of 5

  1. ICML 2024A connection between Tempering and Entropic Mirror Descent
  2. ICML 2024A Global Geometric Analysis of Maximal Coding Rate Reduction
  3. ICML 2024A Mechanistic Understanding of Alignment Algorithms: A Case Study on DPO and Toxicity
  4. ICML 2024A Minimaximalist Approach to Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback
  5. ICML 2024A Neural-Preconditioned Poisson Solver for Mixed Dirichlet and Neumann Boundary Conditions
  6. ICML 2024A Unified Linear Programming Framework for Offline Reward Learning from Human Demonstrations and Feedback
  7. ICML 2024Accelerated Algorithms for Constrained Nonconvex-Nonconcave Min-Max Optimization and Comonotone Inclusion
  8. ICML 2024Active Preference Learning for Large Language Models
  9. ICML 2024Active Ranking and Matchmaking, with Perfect Matchings
  10. ICML 2024Advancing DRL Agents in Commercial Fighting Games: Training, Integration, and Agent-Human Alignment
  11. ICML 2024Adversarial Robustness Limits via Scaling-Law and Human-Alignment Studies
  12. ICML 2024Agent Smith: A Single Image Can Jailbreak One Million Multimodal LLM Agents Exponentially Fast
  13. ICML 2024Agnostic Learning of Mixed Linear Regressions with EM and AM Algorithms
  14. ICML 2024AI Alignment with Changing and Influenceable Reward Functions
  15. ICML 2024AI Control: Improving Safety Despite Intentional Subversion
  16. ICML 2024Algorithm and Hardness for Dynamic Attention Maintenance in Large Language Models
  17. ICML 2024Aligning Transformers with Weisfeiler-Leman
  18. ICML 2024AlphaZero-Like Tree-Search can Guide Large Language Model Decoding and Training
  19. ICML 2024An Online Optimization Perspective on First-Order and Zero-Order Decentralized Nonsmooth Nonconvex Stochastic Optimization
  20. ICML 2024Assessing the Brittleness of Safety Alignment via Pruning and Low-Rank Modifications
  21. ICML 2024AutoOS: Make Your OS More Powerful by Exploiting Large Language Models
  22. ICML 2024Balanced Resonate-and-Fire Neurons
  23. ICML 2024Balancing Similarity and Complementarity for Federated Learning
  24. ICML 2024Bootstrapping Fisher Market Equilibrium and First-Price Pacing Equilibrium
  25. ICML 2024BRAIn: Bayesian Reward-conditioned Amortized Inference for natural language generation from feedback
  26. ICML 2024Bridging Mini-Batch and Asymptotic Analysis in Contrastive Learning: From InfoNCE to Kernel-Based Losses
  27. ICML 2024Byzantine-Robust Federated Learning: Impact of Client Subsampling and Local Updates
  28. ICML 2024Can AI Assistants Know What They Don't Know?
  29. ICML 2024Can Machines Learn the True Probabilities?
  30. ICML 2024CARTE: Pretraining and Transfer for Tabular Learning
  31. ICML 2024Catapults in SGD: spikes in the training loss and their impact on generalization through feature learning
  32. ICML 2024Causal Bandits: The Pareto Optimal Frontier of Adaptivity, a Reduction to Linear Bandits, and Limitations around Unknown Marginals
  33. ICML 2024Characterizing Large Language Model Geometry Helps Solve Toxicity Detection and Generation
  34. ICML 2024Classification under Nuisance Parameters and Generalized Label Shift in Likelihood-Free Inference
  35. ICML 2024CogBench: a large language model walks into a psychology lab
  36. ICML 2024COLD-Attack: Jailbreaking LLMs with Stealthiness and Controllability
  37. ICML 2024Compressing Large Language Models by Joint Sparsification and Quantization
  38. ICML 2024Conformalized Survival Distributions: A Generic Post-Process to Increase Calibration
  39. ICML 2024Contrastive Predict-and-Search for Mixed Integer Linear Programs
  40. ICML 2024Contrastive Preference Optimization: Pushing the Boundaries of LLM Performance in Machine Translation
  41. ICML 2024Convergence and Complexity Guarantee for Inexact First-order Riemannian Optimization Algorithms
  42. ICML 2024Convergence and Trade-Offs in Riemannian Gradient Descent and Riemannian Proximal Point
  43. ICML 2024Convex and Bilevel Optimization for Neural-Symbolic Inference and Learning
  44. ICML 2024Criterion Collapse and Loss Distribution Control
  45. ICML 2024DecisionNCE: Embodied Multimodal Representations via Implicit Preference Learning
  46. ICML 2024Decoding-time Realignment of Language Models
  47. ICML 2024Decomposable Submodular Maximization in Federated Setting
  48. ICML 2024Deconstructing the Goldilocks Zone of Neural Network Initialization
  49. ICML 2024Decoupling Learning and Decision-Making: Breaking the $\mathcal{O}(\sqrt{T})$ Barrier in Online Resource Allocation with First-Order Methods
  50. ICML 2024Deep Networks Always Grok and Here is Why

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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.

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