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

226 papers, page 4 of 5

151. ICML 2026Reflector: Internalizing Step-wise Reflection against Indirect Jailbreaks
152. ICML 2026Reverse-Engineering Model Editing on Language Models
153. ICML 2026Revisiting Robustness for LLM Safety Alignment via Selective Geometry Control
154. ICML 2026Reward Hacking Benchmark: Measuring Exploits in LLM Agents with Tool Use
155. ICML 2026Risk Awareness Injection: Calibrating Vision-Language Models for Safety without Compromising Utility
156. ICML 2026Robust AI Evaluation through Maximal Lotteries
157. ICML 2026Robust Human-AI Complementarity under Uncertainty
158. ICML 2026Rotation-Invariant Spherical Watermarking via Third-Order SO(3) Representation Coupling
159. ICML 2026SAEs-BrainMap: Unveiling the Emergence of Specialized Concepts in Deep Models via Brain Alignment
160. ICML 2026Safe Autoregressive Image Generation with Iterative Self-Improving Codebooks
161. ICML 2026SafeSearch: Automated Red-Teaming of LLM-Based Search Agents
162. ICML 2026Safety Generalization Under Distribution Shift in Safe Reinforcement Learning: A Diabetes Testbed
163. ICML 2026Safety-Efficacy Trade Off: Robustness against Data-Poisoning
164. ICML 2026Same Question, Different Lies: Cross-Context Consistency (C³) for Black-Box Sandbagging Detection
165. ICML 2026SARSteer: Safeguarding Large Audio Language Models via Safe-Ablated Refusal Steering
166. ICML 2026SecCodePRM: A Process Reward Model for Code Security
167. ICML 2026Securing Multi-Agent Systems Against Corruptions via Node Contribution Backpropagation
168. ICML 2026Securing Multimodal AI through Internal Information Decomposition
169. ICML 2026Social Hippocampus Memory Learning
170. ICML 2026SOPE: Situation-Aware and Statistically Indistinguishable Privacy Exfiltration for MCP-enabled Agents
171. ICML 2026Sparse and Faithful Local Explanations with Piecewise Linear Surrogates
172. ICML 2026Sparse but Wrong: Incorrect L0 Leads to Incorrect Features in Sparse Autoencoders
173. ICML 2026Sparse Models, Sparse Safety: Unsafe Routes in Mixture-of-Experts LLMs
174. ICML 2026Sparse Tokens Suffice: Jailbreaking Audio Language Models via Token-Aware Gradient Optimization
175. ICML 2026SpatialJB: How Text Distribution Art Becomes The "Jailbreak Key" for LLM Guardrails
176. ICML 2026Speculative Safety Honeypot: Toward Proactive Defense Against Multi-turn Agent Attacks
177. ICML 2026Speech-Audio Compositional Attacks on Multimodal LLMs and Their Defense with SALMONN-Guard
178. ICML 2026Sponge Tool Attack: Stealthy Denial-of-Efficiency against Tool-Augmented Agentic Reasoning
179. ICML 2026State-Dependent Safety Failures in Multi-Turn Language Model Interaction
180. ICML 2026Steering at the Source: Style Modulation Heads for Robust Persona Control
181. ICML 2026Steering Beyond the Support: Adversarial Training on Unsupervised Jailbroken Activation Simulation
182. ICML 2026Steering Out-of-Distribution Generalization with Concept Ablation Fine-Tuning
183. ICML 2026SteeringSafety: Benchmarking Representation Steering in LLMs Across Safety Perspectives
184. ICML 2026Structured Multi-step Jailbreaking under a Hamiltonian Generative Formulation
185. ICML 2026SVD as a Fast Interpretability Method for Transformers
186. ICML 2026Symbal: Detecting Systematic Misalignments in Model-Generated Captions
187. ICML 2026Tackling Fake Forgetting through Uncertainty Quantification
188. ICML 2026Target-Agnostic Calibration under Distribution Shift with Frequency-Aware Gradient Rectification
189. ICML 2026The Assistant Axis: Situating and Stabilizing the Default Persona of Language Models
190. ICML 2026The Double-Edged Nature of the Rashomon Set for Trustworthy Machine Learning
191. ICML 2026The Expert Strikes Back: Interpreting Mixture-of-Experts Language Models at Expert Level
192. ICML 2026The Geometric Origin of Grokking: Accelerating Generalization via Active Structural Reorganization
193. ICML 2026The Heterogeneous Safety Impacts of Benign Multilingual Fine-Tuning
194. ICML 2026The Mechanistic Emergence of Symbol Grounding in Language Models
195. ICML 2026The Obfuscation Atlas: Mapping Where Honesty Emerges in RLVR with Deception Probes
196. ICML 2026The Safety-Aware Denoiser for Text Diffusion Models
197. ICML 2026The Trojan Knowledge: Bypassing Commercial LLM Guardrails via Harmless Prompt Weaving and Adaptive Tree Search
198. ICML 2026Think Twice Before You Act: Enhancing Agent Behavioral Safety with Thought Correction
199. ICML 2026This State Looks Like That: Self-Interpretable Reinforcement Learning Agents using Prototype Soft Actor-Critic
200. ICML 2026Three Years of r/ChatGPT: Societal Impact Evaluations from Social Media Data

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.