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
311 papers, page 2 of 7
- ICML 2026On Robustness and Chain-of-Thought Consistency of RL-Finetuned VLMs
- ICML 2026On the Adversarial Robustness of Large Vision-Language Models under Visual Token Compression
- ICML 2026On the Existence of Consistent Adversarial Attacks in High-Dimensional Linear Classification
- ICML 2026On the Robustness of Langevin Dynamics to Score Function Error
- ICML 2026Optimal Attention Temperature Improves the Robustness of In-Context Learning under Distribution Shift in High Dimensions
- ICML 2026Posterior Mismatch Matters: Adversarial Training for Long-Tailed Robustness
- ICML 2026Proactive Defense Benchmark against Deepfake Generation
- ICML 2026Probabilistic Robustness Certificates against Adversarial Attacks
- ICML 2026Provably Efficient Policy-Reward Co-Pretraining for Adversarial Imitation Learning
- ICML 2026PSMix: Robust Point Cloud Recognition through Spectral Domain Mixing
- ICML 2026RADAR: Defending RAG Dynamically against Retrieval Corruption
- ICML 2026Regret Minimization With a Crowd of Awakening Experts
- ICML 2026Reward Under Attack: Analyzing the Robustness and Hackability of Process Reward Models
- ICML 2026Ripple Perturbations Through Structure: Likelihood-Constrained Adversarial Attacks on Heterogeneous Tabular Data
- ICML 2026Robust Bayesian Optimisation with Unbounded Corruptions
- ICML 2026Robust Linear Dueling Bandits with Post-serving Context under Unknown Delays and Adversarial Corruptions
- ICML 2026Robust Vision-Language Models via Manifold-Adversarial Adapters
- ICML 2026Robustness of Mixtures of Experts to Feature Noise
- ICML 2026Safety-Efficacy Trade Off: Robustness against Data-Poisoning
- ICML 2026Scalable GANs with Transformers
- ICML 2026Security--Fidelity Tradeoffs: The Hidden Cost of Prompt Injection Defense
- ICML 2026Segment Anything with Robust Uncertainty-Accuracy Correlation
- ICML 2026Self-Calibrated Consistency can Fight Back for Adversarial Robustness in Vision-Language Models
- ICML 2026Semantic Router: On the Feasibility of Hijacking MLLMs via a Single Adversarial Perturbation
- ICML 2026Ski Rental with Distributional Predictions of Unknown Quality
- ICML 2026SORA: Free Second-Order Attacks in Fast Adversarial Training
- ICML 2026SS-TPT: Stability and Suitability-Guided Test-Time Prompt Tuning for Adversarially Robust Vision-Language Models
- ICML 2026Statistically Undetectable Backdoors in Deep Neural Networks
- ICML 2026Steering Beyond the Support: Adversarial Training on Unsupervised Jailbroken Activation Simulation
- ICML 2026Stochastic Order Learning: An Approach to Rank Estimation Using Noisy Data
- ICML 2026Suppress and Diversify: Refining Robust Pathways for Corruption Robustness
- ICML 2026SWE-ABS: Adversarial Benchmark Strengthening Exposes Inflated Success Rates on Test-based Benchmark
- ICML 2026The Latent Guardian: Defending Collaborative Perception via Feature-Level Consistency Verification
- ICML 2026Toward Understanding Adversarial Distillation: Why Robust Teachers Fail
- ICML 2026Towards Fine-Grained Robustness: Attention-Guided Test-Time Prompt Tuning for Vision-Language Models
- ICML 2026Towards Optimal Robustness in Learning-Augmented Paging
- ICML 2026Towards Understanding Generalization of Federated Adversarial Learning: Perspective of Algorithmic Stability
- ICML 2026Training with Honeypots: Reshaping How LLMs Fail Under Adversarial Attacks
- ICML 2026Training-Free Adversarial Robustness in Computational MRI
- ICML 2026Two Modalities Are Better Than One: Efficient Adversarial Purification via Multimodal Diffusion Models
- ICML 2026Unifying Adversarial Robustness and Training Across Text Scoring Models
- ICML 2026When Can You Poison Rewards? A Tight Characterization of Reward Poisoning in Linear MDPs
- ICML 2026You Don't Protect if You Don't Expect: Breaking the Key Assumption behind CLIP's Test-Time Defenses
- ICML 2025Adapting to Evolving Adversaries with Regularized Continual Robust Training
- ICML 2025Adaptive Median Smoothing: Adversarial Defense for Unlearned Text-to-Image Diffusion Models at Inference Time
- ICML 2025Adversarial Combinatorial Semi-bandits with Graph Feedback
- ICML 2025Adversarial Inputs for Linear Algebra Backends
- ICML 2025Adversarial Perturbations Are Formed by Iteratively Learning Linear Combinations of the Right Singular Vectors of the Adversarial Jacobian
- ICML 2025Adversarial Reasoning at Jailbreaking Time
- ICML 2025Adversarial Robust Generalization of Graph Neural Networks
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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.