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
Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up
- 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
422 papers, page 2 of 9
- NeurIPS 2026Near-Optimal Regret in Adversarial Kernel Bandits
- NeurIPS 2026Near-Optimal Stochastic Linear Bandits with Delay
- NeurIPS 2026Nearly-Optimal Algorithm for Adversarial Kernelized Bandits
- NeurIPS 2026On Lipschitz Explosion in Deep Neural Networks with Normalization: Consequences for Optimization and Robustness
- NeurIPS 2026Optimal In-context Adaptivity and Distributional Robustness of Transformers
- NeurIPS 2026Pan-FM: A Pan-Organ Foundation Model with Saliency-Guided Masking for Missing Robustness
- NeurIPS 2026Practical Adversarial Attacks on Stochastic Bandits via Fake Data Injection
- NeurIPS 2026Prudent-Banker: No Extra Fees for Baseline Safety in Adversarial Bandits With and Without Delays
- NeurIPS 2026Reliable Abstention under Adversarial Injections: Lower Bounds and New Upper Bounds
- NeurIPS 2026Residual Calibration via Local Feature-Space Refinement
- NeurIPS 2026Revisiting On-policy Adversarial Black-Box Distillation: Calibrating Groupwise Reward Geometry for Effective Advantage Construction
- NeurIPS 2026Robust and Scalable Collaborative Learning via Pull-Based Epidemic Communication
- NeurIPS 2026Robust Satisficing Ensemble: Scalable Model Aggregation Under Distribution Shifts
- NeurIPS 2026SAFE-FEC: Semantically Constrained Adversarial Frontier Evolution for Factual Error Correction
- NeurIPS 2026Should We Pay This Much for Robustness? Efficient Proxy Certificates with Marginal Guarantees
- NeurIPS 2026Stable Alpha: Adversarial Invariant Representation Learning for Nonlinear Asset Pricing under Temporal Distribution Shifts
- NeurIPS 2026Statistical Estimation of Adversarial Risk in Large Language Models under Best-of-N Sampling
- NeurIPS 2026Surrogate Calibration for Transferable Adversarial Attacks against Black-Box MLLMs
- NeurIPS 2026SynDORBench: Evaluating LVLM Perceptual Robustness Under Physically Constrained Visibility Conditions
- NeurIPS 2026Synthetic Pre-Pre-Training Improves Language Model Robustness to Noisy Pre-Training Data
- NeurIPS 2026Test-Time Defense Against Adversarial Attacks via Stochastic Resonance of Latent Ensembles
- NeurIPS 2026The Adversarial Gait: Detecting Visual Adversarial Attacks against Vision-Language Models via Self-Targeted Gradient Characterization
- NeurIPS 2026The Web Doesn't Sit Still: Adversarial Self-Evolving Attacks on Search Agents
- NeurIPS 2026Token by Token, Compromised: Backdoor Vulnerabilities in Unified Autoregressive Models
- NeurIPS 2026Universal Cross-Prompt Adversarial Attacks on Promptable Concept Segmentation
- NeurIPS 2026Variational Cover Modification Steganography
- NeurIPS 2026When and Why Adversarial Training Improves PINNs: A Neural Tangent Kernel Perspective
- NeurIPS 2026When Are Semivalue-Based Decisions Identifiable? Robust Data Selection under Utility Ambiguity
- NeurIPS 2026When Think-with-Image Meets Safety: What Determines Multimodal Jailbreak Robustness?
- NeurIPS 2026When to Inject the Target: Stage-Decoupled Guidance for Diffusion-Based Targeted Adversarial Attacks
- NeurIPS 2026When Uncertainty Is the Target: Adversarial Attacks on Uncertainty-Aware Predictors
- 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
- NeurIPS 2025AutoRedTeamer: Autonomous Red Teaming with Lifelong Attack Integration
- NeurIPS 2025Backdoor Mitigation via Invertible Pruning Masks
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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.