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
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- CVPR 20254DTAM: Non-Rigid Tracking and Mapping via Dynamic Surface Gaussians
- CVPR 2025Aesthetic Post-Training Diffusion Models from Generic Preferences with Step-by-step Preference Optimization
- CVPR 2025AesthetiQ: Enhancing Graphic Layout Design via Aesthetic-Aware Preference Alignment of Multi-modal Large Language Models
- CVPR 2025AlignMamba: Enhancing Multimodal Mamba with Local and Global Cross-modal Alignment
- CVPR 2025Alignment, Mining and Fusion: Representation Alignment with Hard Negative Mining and Selective Knowledge Fusion for Medical Visual Question Answering
- CVPR 2025AniMer: Animal Pose and Shape Estimation Using Family Aware Transformer
- CVPR 2025Antidote: A Unified Framework for Mitigating LVLM Hallucinations in Counterfactual Presupposition and Object Perception
- CVPR 2025Any6D: Model-free 6D Pose Estimation of Novel Objects
- CVPR 2025AnyCam: Learning to Recover Camera Poses and Intrinsics from Casual Videos
- CVPR 2025ASAP: Advancing Semantic Alignment Promotes Multi-Modal Manipulation Detecting and Grounding
- CVPR 2025Asynchronous Collaborative Graph Representation for Frames and Events
- CVPR 2025Automatic Joint Structured Pruning and Quantization for Efficient Neural Network Training and Compression
- CVPR 2025Automatic Spectral Calibration of Hyperspectral Images: Method, Dataset and Benchmark
- CVPR 2025Balancing Two Classifiers via A Simplex ETF Structure for Model Calibration
- CVPR 2025BOE-ViT: Boosting Orientation Estimation with Equivariance in Self-Supervised 3D Subtomogram Alignment
- CVPR 2025Boost Your Human Image Generation Model via Direct Preference Optimization
- CVPR 2025Boosting Point-Supervised Temporal Action Localization through Integrating Query Reformation and Optimal Transport
- CVPR 2025Bridge Frame and Event: Common Spatiotemporal Fusion for High-Dynamic Scene Optical Flow
- CVPR 2025CADCrafter: Generating Computer-Aided Design Models from Unconstrained Images
- CVPR 2025Calibrated Multi-Preference Optimization for Aligning Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2025Camera Resection from Known Line Pencils and a Radially Distorted Scanline
- CVPR 2025Camouflage Anything: Learning to Hide using Controlled Out-painting and Representation Engineering
- CVPR 2025Can Text-to-Video Generation help Video-Language Alignment?
- CVPR 2025CAV-MAE Sync: Improving Contrastive Audio-Visual Mask Autoencoders via Fine-Grained Alignment
- CVPR 2025Chat-based Person Retrieval via Dialogue-Refined Cross-Modal Alignment
- CVPR 2025Chebyshev Attention Depth Permutation Texture Network with Latent Texture Attribute Loss
- CVPR 2025ComRoPE: Scalable and Robust Rotary Position Embedding Parameterized by Trainable Commuting Angle Matrices
- CVPR 2025Continual SFT Matches Multimodal RLHF with Negative Supervision
- CVPR 2025Critic-V: VLM Critics Help Catch VLM Errors in Multimodal Reasoning
- CVPR 2025CrossOver: 3D Scene Cross-Modal Alignment
- CVPR 2025Curriculum Direct Preference Optimization for Diffusion and Consistency Models
- CVPR 2025DART: Disease-aware Image-Text Alignment and Self-correcting Re-alignment for Trustworthy Radiology Report Generation
- CVPR 2025Debiasing Multimodal Large Language Models via Noise-Aware Preference Optimization
- CVPR 2025Decoder Gradient Shield: Provable and High-Fidelity Prevention of Gradient-Based Box-Free Watermark Removal
- CVPR 2025Detecting Backdoor Attacks in Federated Learning via Direction Alignment Inspection
- CVPR 2025DH-Set: Improving Vision-Language Alignment with Diverse and Hybrid Set-Embeddings Learning
- CVPR 2025Disentangling Safe and Unsafe Image Corruptions via Anisotropy and Locality
- CVPR 2025Do We Really Need Curated Malicious Data for Safety Alignment in Multi-modal Large Language Models?
- CVPR 2025Doppelgangers and Adversarial Vulnerability
- CVPR 2025DUNE: Distilling a Universal Encoder from Heterogeneous 2D and 3D Teachers
- CVPR 2025EBS-EKF: Accurate and High Frequency Event-based Star Tracking
- CVPR 2025EchoMimicV2: Towards Striking, Simplified, and Semi-Body Human Animation
- CVPR 2025Enduring, Efficient and Robust Trajectory Prediction Attack in Autonomous Driving via Optimization-Driven Multi-Frame Perturbation Framework
- CVPR 2025Enhancing SAM with Efficient Prompting and Preference Optimization for Semi-supervised Medical Image Segmentation
- CVPR 2025Escaping Plato's Cave: Towards the Alignment of 3D and Text Latent Spaces
- CVPR 2025EventPSR: Surface Normal and Reflectance Estimation from Photometric Stereo Using an Event Camera
- CVPR 2025Factored-NeuS: Reconstructing Surfaces, Illumination, and Materials of Possibly Glossy Objects
- CVPR 2025Flexible Group Count Enables Hassle-Free Structured Pruning
- CVPR 2025Font-Agent: Enhancing Font Understanding with Large Language Models
- CVPR 2025Fortifying Federated Learning Towards Trustworthiness via Auditable Data Valuation and Verifiable Client Contribution
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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.