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

20 papers, page 1 of 1

1. ICLR 2026A2D: Any-Order, Any-Step Safety Alignment for Diffusion Language Models
2. ICLR 2026Any-Depth Alignment: Unlocking Innate Safety Alignment of LLMs to Any-Depth
3. ICLR 2026Beyond Linear Probes: Dynamic Safety Monitoring for Language Models
4. ICLR 2026Bi-Criteria Metric Distortion
5. ICLR 2026Erase or Hide? Suppressing Spurious Unlearning Neurons for Robust Unlearning
6. ICLR 2026GAVEL: Towards Rule-Based Safety through Activation Monitoring
7. ICLR 2026GradShield: Alignment Preserving Finetuning
8. ICLR 2026GuardAlign: Robust Safety Alignment in Multimodal Large Language Models
9. ICLR 2026Invisible Safety Threat: Malicious Finetuning for LLM via Steganography
10. ICLR 2026OffTopicEval: When Large Language Models Enter the Wrong Chat, Almost Always!
11. ICLR 2026On the Impossibility of Separating Intelligence from Judgment: The Computational Intractability of Filtering for AI Alignment
12. ICLR 2026PRISON: Unmasking the Criminal Potential of Large Language Models
13. ICLR 2026ProSafePrune: Projected Safety Pruning for Mitigating Over-Refusal in LLMs
14. ICLR 2026Reasoned Safety Alignment: Ensuring Jailbreak Defense via Answer-Then-Check
15. ICLR 2026Reward Models Inherit Value Biases from Pretraining
16. ICLR 2026Safety Subspaces are Not Linearly Distinct: A Fine-Tuning Case Study
17. ICLR 2026Social Agents: Collective Intelligence Improves LLM Predictions
18. ICLR 2026Steering Language Models with Weight Arithmetic
19. ICLR 2026Superficial Safety Alignment Hypothesis
20. ICLR 2026When Style Breaks Safety: Defending LLMs Against Superficial Style Alignment

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.