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
73 papers, page 1 of 2
- ICML 2024$\texttt{MoE-RBench}$: Towards Building Reliable Language Models with Sparse Mixture-of-Experts
- ICML 2024Adversarial Attacks on Combinatorial Multi-Armed Bandits
- ICML 2024Adversarial Robustness Limits via Scaling-Law and Human-Alignment Studies
- ICML 2024Ai-sampler: Adversarial Learning of Markov kernels with involutive maps
- ICML 2024Attack-free Evaluating and Enhancing Adversarial Robustness on Categorical Data
- ICML 2024BadPart: Unified Black-box Adversarial Patch Attacks against Pixel-wise Regression Tasks
- ICML 2024Be Your Own Neighborhood: Detecting Adversarial Examples by the Neighborhood Relations Built on Self-Supervised Learning
- ICML 2024Benign Overfitting in Adversarial Training of Neural Networks
- ICML 2024Breaking the Barrier: Enhanced Utility and Robustness in Smoothed DRL Agents
- ICML 2024Bridging Data Gaps in Diffusion Models with Adversarial Noise-Based Transfer Learning
- ICML 2024Can Implicit Bias Imply Adversarial Robustness?
- ICML 2024Connect Later: Improving Fine-tuning for Robustness with Targeted Augmentations
- ICML 2024Contamination-Resilient Anomaly Detection via Adversarial Learning on Partially-Observed Normal and Anomalous Data
- ICML 2024Controllable Prompt Tuning For Balancing Group Distributional Robustness
- ICML 2024CosPGD: an efficient white-box adversarial attack for pixel-wise prediction tasks
- ICML 2024DataFreeShield: Defending Adversarial Attacks without Training Data
- ICML 2024Deep Networks Always Grok and Here is Why
- ICML 2024Density Ratio Estimation with Doubly Strong Robustness
- ICML 2024Diffusion Models Demand Contrastive Guidance for Adversarial Purification to Advance
- ICML 2024Effects of Exponential Gaussian Distribution on (Double Sampling) Randomized Smoothing
- ICML 2024Efficient Black-box Adversarial Attacks via Bayesian Optimization Guided by a Function Prior
- ICML 2024Enhancing Adversarial Robustness in SNNs with Sparse Gradients
- ICML 2024Et Tu Certifications: Robustness Certificates Yield Better Adversarial Examples
- ICML 2024Exploration by Optimization with Hybrid Regularizers: Logarithmic Regret with Adversarial Robustness in Partial Monitoring
- ICML 2024Fast Adversarial Attacks on Language Models In One GPU Minute
- ICML 2024Fast White-Box Adversarial Streaming Without a Random Oracle
- ICML 2024Fine-Grained Causal Dynamics Learning with Quantization for Improving Robustness in Reinforcement Learning
- ICML 2024Graph Adversarial Diffusion Convolution
- ICML 2024HarmBench: A Standardized Evaluation Framework for Automated Red Teaming and Robust Refusal
- ICML 2024How Smooth Is Attention?
- ICML 2024Imitation Learning in Discounted Linear MDPs without exploration assumptions
- ICML 2024Improving Accuracy-robustness Trade-off via Pixel Reweighted Adversarial Training
- ICML 2024Improving Adversarial Energy-Based Model via Diffusion Process
- ICML 2024Improving Generalization in Offline Reinforcement Learning via Adversarial Data Splitting
- ICML 2024Improving Group Robustness on Spurious Correlation Requires Preciser Group Inference
- ICML 2024IOI: Invisible One-Iteration Adversarial Attack on No-Reference Image- and Video-Quality Metrics
- ICML 2024Layer-Aware Analysis of Catastrophic Overfitting: Revealing the Pseudo-Robust Shortcut Dependency
- ICML 2024Multigroup Robustness
- ICML 2024No Free Prune: Information-Theoretic Barriers to Pruning at Initialization
- ICML 2024Non-clairvoyant Scheduling with Partial Predictions
- ICML 2024On the Duality Between Sharpness-Aware Minimization and Adversarial Training
- ICML 2024Online Learning in CMDPs: Handling Stochastic and Adversarial Constraints
- ICML 2024Online Matching with Stochastic Rewards: Provable Better Bound via Adversarial Reinforcement Learning
- ICML 2024OODRobustBench: a Benchmark and Large-Scale Analysis of Adversarial Robustness under Distribution Shift
- ICML 2024Position: Exploring the Robustness of Pipeline-Parallelism-Based Decentralized Training
- ICML 2024Precise Accuracy / Robustness Tradeoffs in Regression: Case of General Norms
- ICML 2024Prompting is a Double-Edged Sword: Improving Worst-Group Robustness of Foundation Models
- ICML 2024Provably Better Explanations with Optimized Aggregation of Feature Attributions
- ICML 2024Provably Efficient Reinforcement Learning for Adversarial Restless Multi-Armed Bandits with Unknown Transitions and Bandit Feedback
- ICML 2024Purify Unlearnable Examples via Rate-Constrained Variational Autoencoders
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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.