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

131 papers, page 3 of 3

101. NeurIPS 2025Smoothed Differentiation Efficiently Mitigates Shattered Gradients in Explanations
102. NeurIPS 2025SpEx: A Spectral Approach to Explainable Clustering
103. NeurIPS 2025Spurious-Aware Prototype Refinement for Reliable Out-of-Distribution Detection
104. NeurIPS 2025STEAD: Robust Provably Secure Linguistic Steganography with Diffusion Language Model
105. NeurIPS 2025StegoZip: Enhancing Linguistic Steganography Payload in Practice with Large Language Models
106. NeurIPS 2025Strategic Classification with Non-Linear Classifiers
107. NeurIPS 2025Strategic Cost Selection in Participatory Budgeting
108. NeurIPS 2025Strategic Hypothesis Testing
109. NeurIPS 2025TAI3: Testing Agent Integrity in Interpreting User Intent
110. NeurIPS 2025Taming Hyperparameter Sensitivity in Data Attribution: Practical Selection Without Costly Retraining
111. NeurIPS 2025Taught Well Learned Ill: Towards Distillation-conditional Backdoor Attack
112. NeurIPS 2025The Future Unmarked: Watermark Removal in AI-Generated Images via Next-Frame Prediction
113. NeurIPS 2025The VLLM Safety Paradox: Dual Ease in Jailbreak Attack and Defense
114. NeurIPS 2025Towards Resilient Safety-driven Unlearning for Diffusion Models against Downstream Fine-tuning
115. NeurIPS 2025Towards Understanding Safety Alignment: A Mechanistic Perspective from Safety Neurons
116. NeurIPS 2025Transformer Key-Value Memories Are Nearly as Interpretable as Sparse Autoencoders
117. NeurIPS 2025Uncovering a Universal Abstract Algorithm for Modular Addition in Neural Networks
118. NeurIPS 2025Unlearning-Aware Minimization
119. NeurIPS 2025Unmasking Puppeteers: Leveraging Biometric Leakage to Expose Impersonation in AI-Based Videoconferencing
120. NeurIPS 2025Unveiling Environmental Sensitivity of Individual Gains in Influence Maximization
121. NeurIPS 2025Vector Database Watermarking
122. NeurIPS 2025Versatile Transferable Unlearnable Example Generator
123. NeurIPS 2025Video-SafetyBench: A Benchmark for Safety Evaluation of Video LVLMs
124. NeurIPS 2025Virus Infection Attack on LLMs: Your Poisoning Can Spread "VIA" Synthetic Data
125. NeurIPS 2025VLMs can Aggregate Scattered Training Patches
126. NeurIPS 2025What is Your Data Worth to GPT? LLM-Scale Data Valuation with Influence Functions
127. NeurIPS 2025What Really is a Member? Discrediting Membership Inference via Poisoning
128. NeurIPS 2025Whose View of Safety? A Deep DIVE Dataset for Pluralistic Alignment of Text-to-Image Models
129. NeurIPS 2025Why Do Some Language Models Fake Alignment While Others Don't?
130. NeurIPS 2025Wisdom is Knowing What not to Say: Hallucination-Free LLMs Unlearning via Attention Shifting
131. NeurIPS 2025World Models Should Prioritize the Unification of Physical and Social Dynamics

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.