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
85 papers, page 1 of 2
- 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?
- ICML 2025CAT: Contrastive Adversarial Training for Evaluating the Robustness of Protective Perturbations in Latent Diffusion Models
- ICML 2025DiffAdvMAP: Flexible Diffusion-Based Framework for Generating Natural Unrestricted Adversarial Examples
- ICML 2025Diffusion-based Adversarial Purification from the Perspective of the Frequency Domain
- ICML 2025Diverse Prototypical Ensembles Improve Robustness to Subpopulation Shift
- ICML 2025Efficient Robust Conformal Prediction via Lipschitz-Bounded Networks
- ICML 2025Enhancing Adversarial Robustness with Conformal Prediction: A Framework for Guaranteed Model Reliability
- ICML 2025Enhancing Certified Robustness via Block Reflector Orthogonal Layers and Logit Annealing Loss
- ICML 2025Explaining the role of Intrinsic Dimensionality in Adversarial Training
- ICML 2025Exploring and Mitigating Adversarial Manipulation of Voting-Based Leaderboards
- ICML 2025Generalization and Robustness of the Tilted Empirical Risk
- ICML 2025Guardians of Image Quality: Benchmarking Defenses Against Adversarial Attacks on Image Quality Metrics
- ICML 2025Identifying and Understanding Cross-Class Features in Adversarial Training
- ICML 2025Improving Zero-Shot Adversarial Robustness in Vision-Language Models by Closed-form Alignment of Adversarial Path Simplices
- ICML 2025Learning Adversarial MDPs with Stochastic Hard Constraints
- ICML 2025Learning Gaussian DAG Models without Condition Number Bounds
- ICML 2025Learning to Incentivize in Repeated Principal-Agent Problems with Adversarial Agent Arrivals
- ICML 2025LEVIS: Large Exact Verifiable Input Spaces for Neural Networks
- ICML 2025Mechanistic Unlearning: Robust Knowledge Unlearning and Editing via Mechanistic Localization
- ICML 2025MemFreezing: A Novel Adversarial Attack on Temporal Graph Neural Networks under Limited Future Knowledge
- ICML 2025Multi-Armed Bandits with Interference: Bridging Causal Inference and Adversarial Bandits
- ICML 2025Near-Optimal Consistency-Robustness Trade-Offs for Learning-Augmented Online Knapsack Problems
- ICML 2025Nearly Optimal Algorithms for Contextual Dueling Bandits from Adversarial Feedback
- ICML 2025NeuronTune: Towards Self-Guided Spurious Bias Mitigation
- ICML 2025Not All Wrong is Bad: Using Adversarial Examples for Unlearning
- ICML 2025Off-Policy Actor-Critic for Adversarial Observation Robustness: Virtual Alternative Training via Symmetric Policy Evaluation
- ICML 2025Omni-Angle Assault: An Invisible and Powerful Physical Adversarial Attack on Face Recognition
- ICML 2025On the Adversarial Robustness of Multi-Kernel Clustering
- ICML 2025On the Alignment between Fairness and Accuracy: from the Perspective of Adversarial Robustness
- ICML 2025On the Clean Generalization and Robust Overfitting in Adversarial Training from Two Theoretical Views: Representation Complexity and Training Dynamics
- ICML 2025On the Diversity of Adversarial Ensemble Learning
- ICML 2025On the Impact of Hard Adversarial Instances on Overfitting in Adversarial Training
- ICML 2025On the Importance of Gaussianizing Representations
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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.