Social aspects · safety papers, 2023–2026

Key findings

• Social aspects · safety went from 4 papers in 2023 to 370 in 2026, roughly 93x in three years.
• ICML publishes the most Social aspects · safety work: 364 papers from 2023 to 2026, 53% of the four-venue total.
• The fastest-growing overlap is with Alignment and 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 #3 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Social aspects · privacy, is up 6.6x versus 93x here.

Representative papers

Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up

• NeurIPS 2026BarrierSteer: LLM Safety via Learning Barrier Steering
• ICML 2026Anti-Backdoor Coreset Selection via Cumulative Entropy
• ICLR 2026Bi-Criteria Metric Distortion
• CVPR 2026Omni-MMSI Toward Identity-attributed Social Interaction Understanding
• NeurIPS 2025Safety Pretraining: Toward the Next Generation of Safe AI
• ICML 2025$S^2$FGL: Spatial Spectral Federated Graph Learning
• ICLR 2025The Hidden Cost of Waiting for Accurate Predictions
• CVPR 2025Do We Really Need Curated Malicious Data for Safety Alignment in Multi-modal Large Language Models?
• NeurIPS 2024Quantifying the Bitter Lesson: How Safety Benchmarks Measure Capabilities Instead of Safety
• ICML 2024Optimally Improving Cooperative Learning in a Social Setting
• ICLR 2024The Devil is in the Neurons: Interpreting and Mitigating Social Biases in Language Models
• CVPR 2024Digital Life Project: Autonomous 3D Characters with Social Intelligence
• NeurIPS 2023Strategyproof Voting under Correlated Beliefs
• ICML 2023Adaptive Coordination in Social Embodied Rearrangement
• NeurIPS 2026Beyond Feature Disruption: Boundary-Diverting Unlearnable Examples against Linear Probing
• ICML 2026AutoControl Arena: Synthesizing Executable Test Environments for Frontier AI Risk Evaluation
• ICLR 2026PRISON: Unmasking the Criminal Potential of Large Language Models
• CVPR 2026Spot The Ball A Benchmark for Visual Social Inference
• NeurIPS 2025SAFEx: Analyzing Vulnerabilities of MoE-Based LLMs via Stable Safety-critical Expert Identification
• ICML 2025Adversaries Can Misuse Combinations of Safe Models

All Social aspects · safety papers

130 papers, page 3 of 3

101. ICML 2025ShieldAgent: Shielding Agents via Verifiable Safety Policy Reasoning
102. ICML 2025Speak Easy: Eliciting Harmful Jailbreaks from LLMs with Simple Interactions
103. ICML 2025SPRI: Aligning Large Language Models with Context-Situated Principles
104. ICML 2025STAIR: Improving Safety Alignment with Introspective Reasoning
105. ICML 2025Statistical Collusion by Collectives on Learning Platforms
106. ICML 2025STD-FD: Spatio-Temporal Distribution Fitting Deviation for AIGC Forgery Identification
107. ICML 2025Stealix: Model Stealing via Prompt Evolution
108. ICML 2025Suitability Filter: A Statistical Framework for Classifier Evaluation in Real-World Deployment Settings
109. ICML 2025Sum-of-Parts: Self-Attributing Neural Networks with End-to-End Learning of Feature Groups
110. ICML 2025Tensor Product Neural Networks for Functional ANOVA Model
111. ICML 2025Test-Time Multimodal Backdoor Detection by Contrastive Prompting
112. ICML 2025The Elicitation Game: Evaluating Capability Elicitation Techniques
113. ICML 2025The Illusion of Role Separation: Hidden Shortcuts in LLM Role Learning (and How to Fix Them)
114. ICML 2025The Jailbreak Tax: How Useful are Your Jailbreak Outputs?
115. ICML 2025The Limits of Predicting Agents from Behaviour
116. ICML 2025The Perils of Optimizing Learned Reward Functions: Low Training Error Does Not Guarantee Low Regret
117. ICML 2025TOPLOC: A Locality Sensitive Hashing Scheme for Trustless Verifiable Inference
118. ICML 2025Towards Attributions of Input Variables in a Coalition
119. ICML 2025Towards Black-Box Membership Inference Attack for Diffusion Models
120. ICML 2025Towards flexible perception with visual memory
121. ICML 2025Towards Global-level Mechanistic Interpretability: A Perspective of Modular Circuits of Large Language Models
122. ICML 2025TRUST-VLM: Thorough Red-Teaming for Uncovering Safety Threats in Vision-Language Models
123. ICML 2025Trustworthy Machine Learning through Data-Specific Indistinguishability
124. ICML 2025Uncertainty-Based Extensible Codebook for Discrete Federated Learning in Heterogeneous Data Silos
125. ICML 2025Validating Mechanistic Interpretations: An Axiomatic Approach
126. ICML 2025Weak-to-Strong Jailbreaking on Large Language Models
127. ICML 2025What makes an Ensemble (Un) Interpretable?
128. ICML 2025Which Attention Heads Matter for In-Context Learning?
129. ICML 2025WMarkGPT: Watermarked Image Understanding via Multimodal Large Language Models
130. ICML 2025X-Hacking: The Threat of Misguided AutoML

FAQ

How many Social aspects · safety papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?

688 in total: 4 in 2023, 41 in 2024, 273 in 2025, 370 in 2026.

How many Social aspects · safety papers are at NeurIPS 2026?

NeurIPS 2026 has 121 Social aspects · safety papers, versus 131 the year before.

How many Social aspects · safety papers are at ICLR 2026?

ICLR 2026 has 20 Social aspects · safety papers, versus 11 the year before.

How many Social aspects · safety papers are at ICML 2026?

ICML 2026 has 226 Social aspects · safety papers, versus 130 the year before.

How many Social aspects · safety papers are at CVPR 2026?

CVPR 2026 has 3 Social aspects · safety papers, versus 1 the year before.

Which conference publishes the most Social aspects · safety papers?

ICML, with 364 papers from 2023 to 2026.