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
331 papers, page 2 of 7
- ICLR 2026Noise Tolerance of Distributionally Robust Learning
- ICLR 2026Noise-Aware Generalization: Robustness to In-Domain Noise and Out-of-Domain Generalization
- ICLR 2026Obfuscated Activations Bypass LLM Latent-Space Defenses
- ICLR 2026On Discovering Algorithms for Adversarial Imitation Learning
- ICLR 2026On the Bayes Inconsistency of Disagreement Discrepancy Surrogates
- ICLR 2026On the Impact of the Utility in Semivalue-based Data Valuation
- ICLR 2026On the Interaction of Compressibility and Adversarial Robustness
- ICLR 2026ON THE ROLE OF IMPLICIT REGULARIZATION OF STOCHASTIC GRADIENT DESCENT IN GROUP ROBUSTNESS
- ICLR 2026On the Tension Between Optimality and Adversarial Robustness in Policy Optimization
- ICLR 2026Online Conformal Prediction with Adversarial Feedback via Regret Minimization
- ICLR 2026Pay Less Attention to Function Words for Free Robustness of Vision-Language Models
- ICLR 2026QUEST: A robust attention formulation using query-modulated spherical attention
- ICLR 2026RedTeamCUA: Realistic Adversarial Testing of Computer-Use Agents in Hybrid Web-OS Environments
- ICLR 2026Reducing information dependency does not cause training data privacy. Adversarially non-robust features do.
- ICLR 2026Robust Adversarial Attacks Against Unknown Disturbance via Inverse Gradient Sample
- ICLR 2026Robust Adversarial Quantification via Conflict-Aware Evidential Deep Learning
- ICLR 2026Robust Deep Reinforcement Learning against Adversarial Behavior Manipulation
- ICLR 2026Robust Federated Inference
- ICLR 2026Robust Fine-Tuning from Non-Robust Pretrained Models: Mitigating Suboptimal Transfer With Epsilon-Scheduling
- ICLR 2026Robust LLM Unlearning via Post Judgment and Multi-round Thinking
- ICLR 2026Robust Spiking Neural Networks Against Adversarial Attacks
- ICLR 2026Robustness in Text-Attributed Graph Learning: Insights, Trade-offs, and New Defenses
- ICLR 2026Robustness of Probabilistic Models to Low-Quality Data: A Multi-Perspective Analysis
- ICLR 2026Sampling-aware Adversarial Attacks Against Large Language Models
- ICLR 2026Set Representation Auxiliary Learning with Adversarial Encoding Perturbation and Optimization
- ICLR 2026Stretching Beyond the Obvious: A Gradient-Free Framework to Unveil the Hidden Landscape of Visual Invariance
- ICLR 2026Testing Most Influential Sets
- ICLR 2026The Price of Robustness: Stable Classifiers Need Overparameterization
- ICLR 2026The Shape of Adversarial Influence: Characterizing LLM Latent Spaces with Persistent Homology
- ICLR 2026Time Is All It Takes: Spike-Retiming Attacks on Event-Driven Spiking Neural Networks
- ICLR 2026Time-To-Inconsistency: A Survival Analysis of Large Language Model Robustness to Adversarial Attacks
- ICLR 2026Training Dynamics Impact Post-Training Quantization Robustness
- ICLR 2026Transferable and Stealthy Adversarial Attacks on Large Vision-Language Models
- ICLR 2026TriQDef: Disrupting Semantic and Gradient Alignment to Prevent Adversarial Patch Transferability in Quantized Neural Networks
- ICLR 2026Tug-of-War No More: Harmonizing Accuracy and Robustness in Vision-Language Models via Stability-Aware Task Vector Merging
- ICLR 2026Understanding and Improving Continuous LLM Adversarial Training via In-context Learning Theory
- ICLR 2026Understanding Sensitivity of Differential Attention through the Lens of Adversarial Robustness
- ICLR 2026Untraceable DeepFakes via Traceable Fingerprint Elimination
- ICLR 2026VEAttack: Downstream-agnostic Vision Encoder Attack against Large Vision Language Models
- ICLR 2026Watch your steps: Dormant Adversarial Behaviors that Activate upon LLM Finetuning
- ICLR 2026When Flatness Does (Not) Guarantee Adversarial Robustness
- ICLR 2026Why Adversarially Train Diffusion Models?
- ICLR 2026Why Do Unlearnable Examples Work: A Novel Perspective of Mutual Information
- ICLR 2026Zero-Sacrifice Persistent-Robustness Adversarial Defense for Pre-Trained Encoders
- ICLR 2025$\sigma$-zero: Gradient-based Optimization of $\ell_0$-norm Adversarial Examples
- ICLR 2025ADBM: Adversarial Diffusion Bridge Model for Reliable Adversarial Purification
- ICLR 2025Adversarial Attacks on Data Attribution
- ICLR 2025Adversarial Latent Feature Augmentation for Fairness
- ICLR 2025Adversarial Machine Unlearning
- ICLR 2025Adversarial Mixup Unlearning
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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.