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
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- NeurIPS 2026A Little Robustness Is All You Need: Leveraging Predictions for Contextual Optimization
- NeurIPS 2026A Margin Perspective on LoRA: Robustness to Catastrophic Forgetting and Adapter Merging (MaLoRA)
- NeurIPS 2026A Regularization-Based Approach to Public Belief State Search for Adversarial Games
- NeurIPS 2026A Retained-Signal Interface for LLM Watermark Robustness under Paraphrase
- NeurIPS 2026A Simple Class-Agnostic Approach to Enhance Fair Adversarial Training
- NeurIPS 2026A Solver-Efficient Neural Adversarial Attack on Subgraph Matching Models
- NeurIPS 2026Adversarial Corpus Selection to Attack Subgraph Matching based Graph Retrieval
- NeurIPS 2026Adversarial Group Fairness in Contextual Bandits: When Robust is Not Fair
- NeurIPS 2026AI Models Can Provably Hide Arbitrary Capabilities
- NeurIPS 2026AnchorRep: Defending LLMs Against Cross-Model Adversarial Transfer via Representation Repulsion
- NeurIPS 2026Assessing the robustness of heterogeneous treatment effects in survival analysis under informative censoring
- NeurIPS 2026BayesAT: Bayes-Guided Progressive Distillation for Semi-Supervised Adversarial Training
- NeurIPS 2026Benchmarking Sensor-Fault Robustness in Forecasting
- NeurIPS 2026Beyond Correctness: Robustness-Driven Evolutionary Self-Training for Large Language Models
- NeurIPS 2026Beyond Ground Truth: Evaluating Non-Verifiable Reasoning in LLMs through Moral Robustness
- NeurIPS 2026BodyBench: Evaluating Adversarial Image Defenses Against AI Nudification Inpainting
- NeurIPS 2026Brenier Meets Adversarial Training: Optimal Transport Geometry for Robust Learning
- NeurIPS 2026Brittlebench: Quantifying LLM robustness via prompt sensitivity
- NeurIPS 2026Catch-Only-One: Non-Transferable Examples for Model-Specific Authorization
- NeurIPS 2026Claudini: Autoresearch Discovers State-of-the-Art Adversarial Attack Algorithms for LLMs
- NeurIPS 2026Contrastive Adversarial Training for Robust Graph Neural Networks under Label Poisoning
- NeurIPS 2026D-GAP: Improving Out-of-Domain Robustness via Dataset-Agnostic and Gradient-Guided Augmentation in Amplitude and Pixel Spaces
- NeurIPS 2026DECEIVE-AFC: Adversarial Claim Attacks against Search-Enabled LLM-based Fact-Checking Systems
- NeurIPS 2026Distributionally Robust Mixture-of-Experts Training
- NeurIPS 2026Do More Modalities Always Help? A Geometric Perspective on Missing-Modality Robustness
- NeurIPS 2026Do Robust LVLMs Hallucinate More? Uncovering Robustness-Induced Hallucination in Large Vision-Language Models
- NeurIPS 2026Embedding Security Properties into AI-Enabled Cyber-Physical Systems
- NeurIPS 2026Even Sailors Need Calm Seas: Taming the Geometry of VLMs for Fast Adversarial Fine-Tuning
- NeurIPS 2026Exploiting Fine-Tuning Structures to Improve Adversarial Transferability on Downstream SAM
- NeurIPS 2026Fingerprinting Inference Systems of Large Language Models
- NeurIPS 2026FocusBranch: Combinatorial Branch-and-Bound for $\ell_0$ Neural Network Robustness Verification
- NeurIPS 2026From Inexact Gradients to Byzantine Robustness: Acceleration and Optimization under Similarity
- NeurIPS 2026From Tokens to Tactics: Adversarial Text Optimization in an Axis-Aligned Rhetorical Strategy Space for Harmful Content Detection
- NeurIPS 2026FusionAudit: Pathway-Conditioned Robustness Auditing for Native Multimodal Models
- NeurIPS 2026G-PAC: Constructing Cohesive Pseudo-Features for Generalizable Physical Adversarial Camouflage
- NeurIPS 2026Improving Context-Shift Robustness of Convolutional Networks via Context-Regularized Cross-Entropy
- NeurIPS 2026Joint Certification for Attributed Graphs: Beyond Topology-Only Robustness
- NeurIPS 2026Learning Better Certified Models from Empirically-Robust Teachers
- NeurIPS 2026Learning Data-free Universal Adversarial Perturbation with Hybrid Priors and Gradient-Guided Sharpness Regularization
- NeurIPS 2026Learning Recoverable Neural Networks against Weight Corruption via Simple Zero-Sum Projection
- NeurIPS 2026Learning Robust Reasoning through Guided Adversarial Self-Play
- NeurIPS 2026Learning Robust Representations for Defending White-Box Adversarial Attacks in Continual Learning
- NeurIPS 2026Learning-Augmented Online Portfolio Selection: Optimal Robustness-Consistency Tradeoffs
- NeurIPS 2026Logit-Gap Steering: A Forward-Pass Diagnostic for Alignment Robustness
- NeurIPS 2026LPS-Bench: Benchmarking Safety Awareness of Computer-Use Agents in Long-Horizon Planning under Benign and Adversarial Scenarios
- NeurIPS 2026Malicious Node Injection: A Transferable Adversarial Attack on GNN Fairness
- NeurIPS 2026Manifold-Aligned Adversarial Perturbation for Anti-Customization under Diffusion-based Purification
- NeurIPS 2026Measuring Robustness and Efficiency in a Connectome-Constrained Fly Visual System Model on a Collision-Detection Task
- NeurIPS 2026My Video Stays Mine: Temporally Consistent Universal Adversarial Perturbations against Video Customization
- NeurIPS 2026Natural Jammers: When Non-Robust Features Become Antagonistic
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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.