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

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201. ICML 2026Sponge Tool Attack: Stealthy Denial-of-Efficiency against Tool-Augmented Agentic Reasoning
202. ICML 2026State-Dependent Safety Failures in Multi-Turn Language Model Interaction
203. ICML 2026Steering at the Source: Style Modulation Heads for Robust Persona Control
204. ICML 2026Steering Beyond the Support: Adversarial Training on Unsupervised Jailbroken Activation Simulation
205. ICML 2026Steering Out-of-Distribution Generalization with Concept Ablation Fine-Tuning
206. ICML 2026SteeringSafety: Benchmarking Representation Steering in LLMs Across Safety Perspectives
207. ICML 2026Structured Multi-step Jailbreaking under a Hamiltonian Generative Formulation
208. ICML 2026SVD as a Fast Interpretability Method for Transformers
209. ICML 2026Symbal: Detecting Systematic Misalignments in Model-Generated Captions
210. ICML 2026Tackling Fake Forgetting through Uncertainty Quantification
211. ICML 2026Target-Agnostic Calibration under Distribution Shift with Frequency-Aware Gradient Rectification
212. ICML 2026The Assistant Axis: Situating and Stabilizing the Default Persona of Language Models
213. ICML 2026The Double-Edged Nature of the Rashomon Set for Trustworthy Machine Learning
214. ICML 2026The Expert Strikes Back: Interpreting Mixture-of-Experts Language Models at Expert Level
215. ICML 2026The Geometric Origin of Grokking: Accelerating Generalization via Active Structural Reorganization
216. ICML 2026The Heterogeneous Safety Impacts of Benign Multilingual Fine-Tuning
217. ICML 2026The Mechanistic Emergence of Symbol Grounding in Language Models
218. ICML 2026The Obfuscation Atlas: Mapping Where Honesty Emerges in RLVR with Deception Probes
219. ICML 2026The Safety-Aware Denoiser for Text Diffusion Models
220. ICML 2026The Trojan Knowledge: Bypassing Commercial LLM Guardrails via Harmless Prompt Weaving and Adaptive Tree Search
221. ICML 2026Think Twice Before You Act: Enhancing Agent Behavioral Safety with Thought Correction
222. ICML 2026This State Looks Like That: Self-Interpretable Reinforcement Learning Agents using Prototype Soft Actor-Critic
223. ICML 2026Three Years of r/ChatGPT: Societal Impact Evaluations from Social Media Data
224. ICML 2026Through the Stealth Lens: Attention-Aware Defenses Against Poisoning in RAG
225. ICML 2026Token-Efficient Change Detection in LLM APIs
226. ICML 2026Toward Calibrated Mixture-of-Experts Under Distribution Shift
227. ICML 2026Toward Stable Value Alignment: Introducing Independent Modules for Consistent Value Guidance
228. ICML 2026Towards Context-Invariant Safety Alignment for Large Language Models
229. ICML 2026Towards Functional Correctness of Large Code Models with Selective Generation
230. ICML 2026Towards Seed-Robust Safety Alignment in Text-to-Image Models
231. ICML 2026Towards Steering without Sacrifice: Principled Training of Steering Vectors for Prompt-only Interventions
232. ICML 2026TraceRouter: Robust Safety for Large Foundation Models via Path-Level Intervention
233. ICML 2026TSFAdv: Frequency-Guided Black-Box Adversarial Attacks on Time Series Forecasting
234. ICML 2026Understanding and Mitigating Token-Pruning-Induced Vulnerabilities in VLMs
235. ICML 2026Unified Safe In-context Image Generation in Multimodal Diffusion Transformers via Restricting Unsafe Information Flows
236. ICML 2026Unlearning Isn't Deletion: Investigating Reversibility of Machine Unlearning in LLMs
237. ICML 2026Unsafer in Many Turns: Benchmarking and Defending Multi-Turn Safety Risks in Tool-Using Agents
238. ICML 2026Weight-sparse transformers have interpretable circuits
239. ICML 2026What is Missing? Explaining Neurons Activated by Absent Concepts
240. ICML 2026When Benign Inputs Lead to Severe Harms: Eliciting Unsafe Unintended Behaviors of Computer-Use Agents
241. ICML 2026When Embedding-Based Defenses Fail: Rethinking Safety in LLM-Based Multi-Agent Systems
242. ICML 2026When Random Saliency Looks Trained: Architectural Center Bias in CNN Interpretability
243. ICML 2026When the Prompt Becomes Visual: Vision-Centric Jailbreak Attacks for Large Image Editing Models
244. ICML 2026Who Evaluates AI's Social Impacts? Mapping Coverage and Gaps in First and Third Party Evaluations
245. ICML 2026Who Gets Credit or Blame? Attributing Accountability in Modern AI Systems
246. ICML 2026Who Transfers Safety? Identifying and Targeting Cross-Lingual Shared Safety Neurons
247. ICML 2026X-EviProbe: Post-hoc Parameter-Free Evidential Uncertainty Quantification for Frozen Graph Neural Networks
248. ICML 2026Z-Erase: Enabling Concept Erasure in Single Stream Diffusion Transformers
249. ICML 2026ZeroUnlearn: Few-Shot Knowledge Unlearning in Large Language Models
250. NeurIPS 2026A Single Neuron Is Sufficient to Bypass Safety Alignment in Large Language Models

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.