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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301. ICML 2025PASS: Private Attributes Protection with Stochastic Data Substitution
302. ICML 2025Pointwise Information Measures as Confidence Estimators in Deep Neural Networks: A Comparative Study
303. ICML 2025POROver: Improving Safety and Reducing Overrefusal in Large Language Models with Overgeneration and Preference Optimization
304. ICML 2025Position: AI Safety Must Embrace an Antifragile Perspective
305. ICML 2025Position: AI Safety should prioritize the Future of Work
306. ICML 2025Position: Editing Large Language Models Poses Serious Safety Risks
307. ICML 2025Position: Generative AI Regulation Can Learn from Social Media Regulation
308. ICML 2025Position: Humanity Faces Existential Risk from Gradual Disempowerment
309. ICML 2025Position: Political Neutrality in AI Is Impossible — But Here Is How to Approximate It
310. ICML 2025Position: Strong Consumer Protection is an Inalienable Defense for AI Safety in the United States
311. ICML 2025Position: The Right to AI
312. ICML 2025Position: We Need Responsible, Application-Driven (RAD) AI Research
313. ICML 2025Prediction via Shapley Value Regression
314. ICML 2025Preference learning made easy: Everything should be understood through win rate
315. ICML 2025Provably Cost-Sensitive Adversarial Defense via Randomized Smoothing
316. ICML 2025Ranked from Within: Ranking Large Multimodal Models Without Labels
317. ICML 2025Relative Error Fair Clustering in the Weak-Strong Oracle Model
318. ICML 2025Representative Ranking for Deliberation in the Public Sphere
319. ICML 2025Rethinking the Temperature for Federated Heterogeneous Distillation
320. ICML 2025SafeArena: Evaluating the Safety of Autonomous Web Agents
321. ICML 2025Safety Alignment Can Be Not Superficial With Explicit Safety Signals
322. ICML 2025Safety Reasoning with Guidelines
323. ICML 2025SafetyAnalyst: Interpretable, Transparent, and Steerable Safety Moderation for AI Behavior
324. ICML 2025Scaling Trends in Language Model Robustness
325. ICML 2025Selective Preference Aggregation
326. ICML 2025SEMU: Singular Value Decomposition for Efficient Machine Unlearning
327. ICML 2025ShieldAgent: Shielding Agents via Verifiable Safety Policy Reasoning
328. ICML 2025Speak Easy: Eliciting Harmful Jailbreaks from LLMs with Simple Interactions
329. ICML 2025SPRI: Aligning Large Language Models with Context-Situated Principles
330. ICML 2025STAIR: Improving Safety Alignment with Introspective Reasoning
331. ICML 2025Statistical Collusion by Collectives on Learning Platforms
332. ICML 2025STD-FD: Spatio-Temporal Distribution Fitting Deviation for AIGC Forgery Identification
333. ICML 2025Stealix: Model Stealing via Prompt Evolution
334. ICML 2025Suitability Filter: A Statistical Framework for Classifier Evaluation in Real-World Deployment Settings
335. ICML 2025Sum-of-Parts: Self-Attributing Neural Networks with End-to-End Learning of Feature Groups
336. ICML 2025Tensor Product Neural Networks for Functional ANOVA Model
337. ICML 2025Test-Time Multimodal Backdoor Detection by Contrastive Prompting
338. ICML 2025The Elicitation Game: Evaluating Capability Elicitation Techniques
339. ICML 2025The Illusion of Role Separation: Hidden Shortcuts in LLM Role Learning (and How to Fix Them)
340. ICML 2025The Jailbreak Tax: How Useful are Your Jailbreak Outputs?
341. ICML 2025The Limits of Predicting Agents from Behaviour
342. ICML 2025The Perils of Optimizing Learned Reward Functions: Low Training Error Does Not Guarantee Low Regret
343. ICML 2025TOPLOC: A Locality Sensitive Hashing Scheme for Trustless Verifiable Inference
344. ICML 2025Towards Attributions of Input Variables in a Coalition
345. ICML 2025Towards Black-Box Membership Inference Attack for Diffusion Models
346. ICML 2025Towards flexible perception with visual memory
347. ICML 2025Towards Global-level Mechanistic Interpretability: A Perspective of Modular Circuits of Large Language Models
348. ICML 2025TRUST-VLM: Thorough Red-Teaming for Uncovering Safety Threats in Vision-Language Models
349. ICML 2025Trustworthy Machine Learning through Data-Specific Indistinguishability
350. ICML 2025Uncertainty-Based Extensible Codebook for Discrete Federated Learning in Heterogeneous Data Silos

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.