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
327 papers, page 3 of 7
- ICLR 2025Non-Adversarial Inverse Reinforcement Learning via Successor Feature Matching
- ICLR 2025On Minimizing Adversarial Counterfactual Error in Adversarial Reinforcement Learning
- ICLR 2025Optimizing importance weighting in the presence of sub-population shifts
- ICLR 2025PolyPythias: Stability and Outliers across Fifty Language Model Pre-Training Runs
- ICLR 2025Provable Robust Overfitting Mitigation in Wasserstein Distributionally Robust Optimization
- ICLR 2025Provably Reliable Conformal Prediction Sets in the Presence of Data Poisoning
- ICLR 2025Provably Safeguarding a Classifier from OOD and Adversarial Samples
- ICLR 2025Rethinking Invariance Regularization in Adversarial Training to Improve Robustness-Accuracy Trade-off
- ICLR 2025Robust Feature Learning for Multi-Index Models in High Dimensions
- ICLR 2025Robust LLM safeguarding via refusal feature adversarial training
- ICLR 2025Robust Representation Consistency Model via Contrastive Denoising
- ICLR 2025Robust Transfer of Safety-Constrained Reinforcement Learning Agents
- ICLR 2025Robustness Auditing for Linear Regression: To Singularity and Beyond
- ICLR 2025Robustness Inspired Graph Backdoor Defense
- ICLR 2025Robustness Reprogramming for Representation Learning
- ICLR 2025Selective Unlearning via Representation Erasure Using Domain Adversarial Training
- ICLR 2025Shh, don't say that! Domain Certification in LLMs
- ICLR 2025Speech Robust Bench: A Robustness Benchmark For Speech Recognition
- ICLR 2025Stochastic Bandits Robust to Adversarial Attacks
- ICLR 2025Strong Preferences Affect the Robustness of Preference Models and Value Alignment
- ICLR 2025Tailoring Mixup to Data for Calibration
- ICLR 2025Targeted Attack Improves Protection against Unauthorized Diffusion Customization
- ICLR 2025TASAR: Transfer-based Attack on Skeletal Action Recognition
- ICLR 2025Tight Clusters Make Specialized Experts
- ICLR 2025To Tackle Adversarial Transferability: A Novel Ensemble Training Method with Fourier Transformation
- ICLR 2025Towards Certification of Uncertainty Calibration under Adversarial Attacks
- ICLR 2025Towards Scalable Topological Regularizers
- ICLR 2025Towards Understanding the Robustness of Diffusion-Based Purification: A Stochastic Perspective
- ICLR 2025Training Robust Ensembles Requires Rethinking Lipschitz Continuity
- ICLR 2025Unlearn and Burn: Adversarial Machine Unlearning Requests Destroy Model Accuracy
- ICLR 2025Verifying Properties of Binary Neural Networks Using Sparse Polynomial Optimization
- ICLR 2025Zero-cost Proxy for Adversarial Robustness Evaluation
- 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
- ICML 2025Adversarial Robustness in Two-Stage Learning-to-Defer: Algorithms and Guarantees
- ICML 2025Adversarial Robustness via Deformable Convolution with Stochasticity
- ICML 2025AdvPrompter: Fast Adaptive Adversarial Prompting for LLMs
- ICML 2025All-Purpose Mean Estimation over R: Optimal Sub-Gaussianity with Outlier Robustness and Low Moments Performance
- ICML 2025An Adaptive Orthogonal Convolution Scheme for Efficient and Flexible CNN Architectures
- ICML 2025AutoAdvExBench: Benchmarking Autonomous Exploitation of Adversarial Example Defenses
- ICML 2025Average Certified Radius is a Poor Metric for Randomized Smoothing
- ICML 2025Backdoor Attacks in Token Selection of Attention Mechanism
- ICML 2025Bi-perspective Splitting Defense: Achieving Clean-Seed-Free Backdoor Security
- ICML 2025Boosting Adversarial Robustness with CLAT: Criticality Leveraged Adversarial Training
- ICML 2025Can DBNNs Robust to Environmental Noise for Resource-constrained Scenarios?
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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.