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
93 papers, page 1 of 2
- ICML 2026``Someone Hid It!'': Query-Agnostic Black-Box Attacks on LLM-Based Retrieval
- ICML 2026A Coin Flip for Safety: LLM Judges Fail to Reliably Measure Adversarial Robustness
- ICML 2026Adaptive Probe-based Steering for Robust LLM Jailbreaking
- ICML 2026Adaptively Robust Resettable Streaming
- ICML 2026Adversarial Attacks and Robust Training for Hypergraph Neural Networks
- ICML 2026Adversarial Robustness of Implicit Neural Representation-Based Classifiers
- ICML 2026Adversarial Vulnerability from Interference Between Features in Superposition
- ICML 2026AliMark: Enhancing Robustness of Sentence-Level Watermarking Against Text Paraphrasing
- ICML 2026Benign Overfitting in Adversarial Training for Vision Transformers
- ICML 2026Bias in Zeroth-Order Normal Estimation for Decision-Based Attacks
- ICML 2026BiRQA: Bidirectional Robust Quality Assessment for Images
- ICML 2026BOCLOAK: Optimal Transport-Guided Adversarial Attacks on Graph Neural Network-Based Bot Detection
- ICML 2026Budget-Efficient Attacks and Robustness Training for Cooperative MARL
- ICML 2026Bulk-Calibrated Credal Ambiguity Sets: Fast, Tractable Decision Making under Out-of-Sample Contamination
- ICML 2026Calibrating Uncertainty for Zero-Shot Adversarial CLIP
- ICML 2026CaliDist: Calibrating Large Language Models via Behavioral Robustness to Distraction
- ICML 2026Certified Robustness under Heterogeneous Perturbations via Hybrid Randomized Smoothing
- ICML 2026Certifying Graph Neural Networks Against Label and Structure Poisoning
- ICML 2026Contrastive Spectral Rectification: Test-Time Defense towards Zero-shot Adversarial Robustness of CLIP
- ICML 2026CORE: Context-Robust Remasking for Diffusion Language Models
- ICML 2026Corruption-Tolerant Asynchronous Q-Learning with Near-Optimal Rates
- ICML 2026DART: Distribution-Aware Adaptive Relational Transfer for Adversarial Attacks against Closed-Source MLLMs
- ICML 2026DDGA: Dirichlet Distributional Gradient Aggregation for Transferable Vision-Language Adversarial Attacks
- ICML 2026DF-LoGiT: Data-Free Logic-Gated Backdoor Attacks in Vision Transformers
- ICML 2026Disentangling Intent from Role: Adversarial Self-Play for Persona-Invariant Safety Alignment
- ICML 2026Distributionally Robust Markov Games with Average Reward
- ICML 2026Does a Hybrid Space-Aware Randomized Defense Improve Empirical and Certified Adversarial Robustness?
- ICML 2026Dual-branch Robust Unlearnable Examples
- ICML 2026Enhanced Latent-Space Adversarial Training for Super-Resolution
- ICML 2026Feature Collapse Under Corruption: An Entropy Perspective on Robust Neural Networks
- ICML 2026Fingerprinting Pre-trained Encoders under Arbitrary Downstream Fine-Tuning via Adversarial Shifting
- ICML 2026From Internal Diagnosis to External Auditing: A VLM-Driven Paradigm for Data-Free Online Backdoor Defense
- ICML 2026Geometry-Aware Contrastive Learning for Few-Shot Automatic Modulation Recognition
- ICML 2026Harnessing Non-Adversarial Robustness in Large Language Models
- ICML 2026Hearing Without Noticing? Attention-Aware Stealthy Black-Box Adversarial Audio Attacks
- ICML 2026High-Dimensional Sensitivity Analysis for Genomic Studies: An Adversarial Framework for Learning Worst-Case Latent Confounders
- ICML 2026Higher-Order Certified Robustness for Regression
- ICML 2026Identifiable Smooth Conjugacy Learning via Adversarial Orthogonality
- ICML 2026Improving Adversarial Robustness of Attribution via Implicit Regularization
- ICML 2026Improving the Robustness-Utility Trade-off in Decentralized Learning over Sparse Networks
- ICML 2026Improving the Sensitivity of Backdoor Detectors via Class Subspace Orthogonalization
- ICML 2026Learning to Emulate Chaos: Adversarial Optimal Transport Regularization
- ICML 2026Localize and Neutralize: Gradient-Guided Token Suppression Against Visual Prompt Injection Attack
- ICML 2026Logit Distance Bounds Representational Similarity
- ICML 2026MaMa: A Game-Theoretic Approach for Designing Safe Agentic Systems
- ICML 2026MEDUSA: Motion Elimination in Diffusion Using Spectral Attack
- ICML 2026Mind Your Margin and Boundary: Are Your Distilled Datasets Truly Robust?
- ICML 2026MoCo-EA: Exploiting Adversarial Mode Connectivity for Efficient Evolutionary Attacks
- ICML 2026Near-Minimax Multi-Objective RL under Predictable Adversarial Preferences and Preference-Free Exploration in Linear MDPs
- ICML 2026Non-Parametric Probabilistic Robustness: A Conservative Risk Estimator under Unknown Perturbation Distributions
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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.