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
- 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.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 138 | 87 | 101 | 112 | 438 |
| 2024 | 348 | 156 | 246 | 125 | 875 |
| 2025 | 455 | 473 | 300 | 135 | 1,363 |
| 2026 | 480 | 623 | 551 | 228 | 1,882 |
Representative papers
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- 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
875 papers, page 1 of 18
- CVPR 20241-Lipschitz Layers Compared: Memory Speed and Certifiable Robustness
- CVPR 2024A Call to Reflect on Evaluation Practices for Age Estimation: Comparative Analysis of the State-of-the-Art and a Unified Benchmark
- CVPR 2024A Semi-supervised Nighttime Dehazing Baseline with Spatial-Frequency Aware and Realistic Brightness Constraint
- CVPR 2024A Theory of Joint Light and Heat Transport for Lambertian Scenes
- CVPR 2024Absolute Pose from One or Two Scaled and Oriented Features
- CVPR 2024Adversarial Distillation Based on Slack Matching and Attribution Region Alignment
- CVPR 2024AiOS: All-in-One-Stage Expressive Human Pose and Shape Estimation
- CVPR 2024Align and Aggregate: Compositional Reasoning with Video Alignment and Answer Aggregation for Video Question-Answering
- CVPR 2024Aligning and Prompting Everything All at Once for Universal Visual Perception
- CVPR 2024Alpha Invariance: On Inverse Scaling Between Distance and Volume Density in Neural Radiance Fields
- CVPR 2024Amodal Ground Truth and Completion in the Wild
- CVPR 2024ARTrackV2: Prompting Autoregressive Tracker Where to Look and How to Describe
- CVPR 2024Beyond Seen Primitive Concepts and Attribute-Object Compositional Learning
- CVPR 2024BilevelPruning: Unified Dynamic and Static Channel Pruning for Convolutional Neural Networks
- CVPR 2024Bridging the Gap Between End-to-End and Two-Step Text Spotting
- CVPR 2024Byzantine-robust Decentralized Federated Learning via Dual-domain Clustering and Trust Bootstrapping
- CVPR 2024Close Imitation of Expert Retouching for Black-and-White Photography
- CVPR 2024Data Valuation and Detections in Federated Learning
- CVPR 2024Decompose-and-Compose: A Compositional Approach to Mitigating Spurious Correlation
- CVPR 2024Denoising Point Clouds in Latent Space via Graph Convolution and Invertible Neural Network
- CVPR 2024Diffusion Model Alignment Using Direct Preference Optimization
- CVPR 2024DiG-IN: Diffusion Guidance for Investigating Networks - Uncovering Classifier Differences Neuron Visualisations and Visual Counterfactual Explanations
- CVPR 2024DiLiGenRT: A Photometric Stereo Dataset with Quantified Roughness and Translucency
- CVPR 2024Doodle Your 3D: From Abstract Freehand Sketches to Precise 3D Shapes
- CVPR 2024Driving-Video Dehazing with Non-Aligned Regularization for Safety Assistance
- CVPR 2024DS-NeRV: Implicit Neural Video Representation with Decomposed Static and Dynamic Codes
- CVPR 2024Eclipse: Disambiguating Illumination and Materials using Unintended Shadows
- CVPR 2024Efficient and Effective Weakly-Supervised Action Segmentation via Action-Transition-Aware Boundary Alignment
- CVPR 2024Enhancing Video Super-Resolution via Implicit Resampling-based Alignment
- CVPR 2024Equivariant Plug-and-Play Image Reconstruction
- CVPR 2024EvDiG: Event-guided Direct and Global Components Separation
- CVPR 2024Evidential Active Recognition: Intelligent and Prudent Open-World Embodied Perception
- CVPR 2024FaceCom: Towards High-fidelity 3D Facial Shape Completion via Optimization and Inpainting Guidance
- CVPR 2024Facial Identity Anonymization via Intrinsic and Extrinsic Attention Distraction
- CVPR 2024Fair Federated Learning under Domain Skew with Local Consistency and Domain Diversity
- CVPR 2024Fantastic Animals and Where to Find Them: Segment Any Marine Animal with Dual SAM
- CVPR 2024FAR: Flexible Accurate and Robust 6DoF Relative Camera Pose Estimation
- CVPR 2024FC-GNN: Recovering Reliable and Accurate Correspondences from Interferences
- CVPR 2024FedAS: Bridging Inconsistency in Personalized Federated Learning
- CVPR 2024Flexible Biometrics Recognition: Bridging the Multimodality Gap through Attention Alignment and Prompt Tuning
- CVPR 2024FoundationPose: Unified 6D Pose Estimation and Tracking of Novel Objects
- CVPR 2024FREE: Faster and Better Data-Free Meta-Learning
- CVPR 2024From a Bird's Eye View to See: Joint Camera and Subject Registration without the Camera Calibration
- CVPR 2024From Variance to Veracity: Unbundling and Mitigating Gradient Variance in Differentiable Bundle Adjustment Layers
- CVPR 2024Generalized Large-Scale Data Condensation via Various Backbone and Statistical Matching
- CVPR 2024GenHowTo: Learning to Generate Actions and State Transformations from Instructional Videos
- CVPR 2024GeoReF: Geometric Alignment Across Shape Variation for Category-level Object Pose Refinement
- CVPR 2024Gradient Alignment for Cross-Domain Face Anti-Spoofing
- CVPR 2024Gradient Reweighting: Towards Imbalanced Class-Incremental Learning
- CVPR 2024High-Quality Facial Geometry and Appearance Capture at Home
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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.