Adversarial Robustness papers, 2023–2026
Adversarial examples and defenses
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 1,291 papers are tagged with this topic.
Key findings
- Adversarial Robustness went from 313 papers in 2023 to 317 in 2026, roughly 1.0x in three years.
- NeurIPS publishes the most Adversarial Robustness work: 422 papers from 2023 to 2026, 33% of the four-venue total.
- The fastest-growing overlap is with Alignment and Safety: papers tagged with both rose from 13 in 2023 to 56 in 2026.
- Among the 5 topics under Security and Trust, it ranks #1 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Watermarking, is up 9.3x versus 1.0x here.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 100 | 79 | 60 | 74 | 313 |
| 2024 | 131 | 70 | 73 | 60 | 334 |
| 2025 | 110 | 88 | 85 | 44 | 327 |
| 2026 | 81 | 94 | 93 | 49 | 317 |
Representative papers
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- NeurIPS 2026A Little Robustness Is All You Need: Leveraging Predictions for Contextual Optimization
- ICML 2026Bias in Zeroth-Order Normal Estimation for Decision-Based Attacks
- ICLR 2026CERTIFIED VS. EMPIRICAL ADVERSARIAL ROBUSTNESS VIA HYBRID CONVOLUTIONS WITH ATTENTION STOCHASTICITY
- CVPR 2026A Combination of Noise and Bilateral Filters Achieve Supralinear and
- NeurIPS 2025A Unified Approach to Submodular Maximization Under Noise
- ICML 2025Adversarial Perturbations Are Formed by Iteratively Learning Linear Combinations of the Right Singular Vectors of the Adversarial Jacobian
- ICLR 2025$\sigma$-zero: Gradient-based Optimization of $\ell_0$-norm Adversarial Examples
- CVPR 2025A Unified, Resilient, and Explainable Adversarial Patch Detector
- NeurIPS 2024A StrongREJECT for Empty Jailbreaks
- ICML 2024Adversarial Attacks on Combinatorial Multi-Armed Bandits
- ICLR 2024An LLM can Fool Itself: A Prompt-Based Adversarial Attack
- CVPR 2024Defense Against Adversarial Attacks on No-Reference Image Quality Models with Gradient Norm Regularization
- NeurIPS 2023A Closer Look at the Robustness of Contrastive Language-Image Pre-Training (CLIP)
- ICML 2023A Law of Robustness beyond Isoperimetry
- ICLR 2023A law of adversarial risk, interpolation, and label noise
- CVPR 2023Adversarial Normalization: I Can Visualize Everything (ICE)
- NeurIPS 2026A Regularization-Based Approach to Public Belief State Search for Adversarial Games
- ICML 2026CaliDist: Calibrating Large Language Models via Behavioral Robustness to Distraction
- ICLR 2026Conformal Robustness Control: A New Strategy for Robust Decision
- CVPR 2026A Provable Energy-Guided Test-Time Defense Boosting Adversarial Robustness of Large
All Adversarial Robustness papers
1,290 papers, page 11 of 26
- ICML 2025On the Tension between Byzantine Robustness and No-Attack Accuracy in Distributed Learning
- ICML 2025One Stone, Two Birds: Enhancing Adversarial Defense Through the Lens of Distributional Discrepancy
- ICML 2025Optimal Fair Learning Robust to Adversarial Distribution Shift
- ICML 2025Optimizing Robustness and Accuracy in Mixture of Experts: A Dual-Model Approach
- ICML 2025Phase and Amplitude-aware Prompting for Enhancing Adversarial Robustness
- ICML 2025Pixel-level Certified Explanations via Randomized Smoothing
- ICML 2025Pixel2Feature Attack (P2FA): Rethinking the Perturbed Space to Enhance Adversarial Transferability
- ICML 2025Position: Certified Robustness Does Not (Yet) Imply Model Security
- ICML 2025Probably Approximately Global Robustness Certification
- ICML 2025Provably Cost-Sensitive Adversarial Defense via Randomized Smoothing
- ICML 2025Quadratic Upper Bound for Boosting Robustness
- ICML 2025REINFORCE Adversarial Attacks on Large Language Models: An Adaptive, Distributional, and Semantic Objective
- ICML 2025Robust Automatic Modulation Classification with Fuzzy Regularization
- ICML 2025RobustLight: Improving Robustness via Diffusion Reinforcement Learning for Traffic Signal Control
- ICML 2025RobustZero: Enhancing MuZero Reinforcement Learning Robustness to State Perturbations
- ICML 2025ROME is Forged in Adversity: Robust Distilled Datasets via Information Bottleneck
- ICML 2025Sample-specific Noise Injection for Diffusion-based Adversarial Purification
- ICML 2025Scaling Trends in Language Model Robustness
- ICML 2025Self-Consuming Generative Models with Adversarially Curated Data
- ICML 2025Self-supervised Adversarial Purification for Graph Neural Networks
- ICML 2025SGD Jittering: A Training Strategy for Robust and Accurate Model-Based Architectures
- ICML 2025Splitting & Integrating: Out-of-Distribution Detection via Adversarial Gradient Attribution
- ICML 2025Statistical Hypothesis Testing for Auditing Robustness in Language Models
- ICML 2025Towards Robust Influence Functions with Flat Validation Minima
- ICML 2025Towards Robustness and Explainability of Automatic Algorithm Selection
- ICML 2025TtBA: Two-third Bridge Approach for Decision-Based Adversarial Attack
- ICML 2025Understanding Model Ensemble in Transferable Adversarial Attack
- ICML 2025Unified Breakdown Analysis for Byzantine Robust Gossip
- ICML 2025Universal Neural Optimal Transport
- ICML 2025Unveiling AI's Blind Spots: An Oracle for In-Domain, Out-of-Domain, and Adversarial Errors
- ICML 2025Vulnerability-Aware Alignment: Mitigating Uneven Forgetting in Harmful Fine-Tuning
- ICML 2025When and How Does CLIP Enable Domain and Compositional Generalization?
- ICML 2025X-Transfer Attacks: Towards Super Transferable Adversarial Attacks on CLIP
- NeurIPS 2025A data and task-constrained mechanistic model of the mouse outer retina shows robustness to contrast variations
- NeurIPS 2025A Near-optimal, Scalable and Parallelizable Framework for Stochastic Bandits Robust to Adversarial Corruptions and Beyond
- NeurIPS 2025A Unified Approach to Submodular Maximization Under Noise
- NeurIPS 2025Accelerated Vertical Federated Adversarial Learning through Decoupling Layer-Wise Dependencies
- NeurIPS 2025AdaptDel: Adaptable Deletion Rate Randomized Smoothing for Certified Robustness
- NeurIPS 2025Adapting to Stochastic and Adversarial Losses in Episodic MDPs with Aggregate Bandit Feedback
- NeurIPS 2025Adv-SSL: Adversarial Self-Supervised Representation Learning with Theoretical Guarantees
- NeurIPS 2025Adversarial Diffusion for Robust Reinforcement Learning
- NeurIPS 2025Adversarial generalization of unfolding (model-based) networks
- NeurIPS 2025Adversarial Paraphrasing: A Universal Attack for Humanizing AI-Generated Text
- NeurIPS 2025Adversarial Robustness of Nonparametric Regression
- NeurIPS 2025Adversary Aware Optimization for Robust Defense
- NeurIPS 2025AdvPrefix: An Objective for Nuanced LLM Jailbreaks
- NeurIPS 2025Alias-Free ViT: Fractional Shift Invariance via Linear Attention
- NeurIPS 2025An Improved Algorithm for Adversarial Linear Contextual Bandits via Reduction
- NeurIPS 2025AngleRoCL: Angle-Robust Concept Learning for Physically View-Invariant Adversarial Patches
- NeurIPS 2025Attention! Your Vision Language Model Could Be Maliciously Manipulated
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FAQ
- How many Adversarial Robustness papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?
- 1,291 in total: 313 in 2023, 334 in 2024, 327 in 2025, 317 in 2026.
- How many Adversarial Robustness papers are at NeurIPS 2026?
- NeurIPS 2026 has 81 Adversarial Robustness papers, versus 110 the year before.
- How many Adversarial Robustness papers are at ICLR 2026?
- ICLR 2026 has 94 Adversarial Robustness papers, versus 88 the year before.
- How many Adversarial Robustness papers are at ICML 2026?
- ICML 2026 has 93 Adversarial Robustness papers, versus 85 the year before.
- How many Adversarial Robustness papers are at CVPR 2026?
- CVPR 2026 has 49 Adversarial Robustness papers, versus 44 the year before.
- Which conference publishes the most Adversarial Robustness papers?
- NeurIPS, with 422 papers from 2023 to 2026.