Backdoor Attacks papers, 2023–2026

Key findings

• Backdoor Attacks went from 73 papers in 2023 to 111 in 2026, roughly 1.5x in three years.
• NeurIPS publishes the most Backdoor Attacks work: 124 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 0 in 2023 to 16 in 2026.
• Among the 5 topics under Security and Trust, it ranks #2 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Watermarking, is up 9.3x versus 1.5x here.

Representative papers

Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up

• NeurIPS 2026A Theoretical Analysis of Backdoor Learning as Simplicity-Biased Optimization Dynamics
• ICML 2026Coupled Trigger Optimization and Vulnerable Parameter Alignment for Persistent Backdoor Attacks on Federated Learning
• ICLR 2026Defending against Backdoor Attacks via Module Switching
• CVPR 2026Eliminate Distance Differences Induced by Backdoor Attacks Layer-Selective Training and
• NeurIPS 2025A Set of Generalized Components to Achieve Effective Poison-only Clean-label Backdoor Attacks with Collaborative Sample Selection and Triggers
• ICML 2025A Closer Look at Backdoor Attacks on CLIP
• ICLR 2025Activation Gradient based Poisoned Sample Detection Against Backdoor Attacks
• CVPR 2025BadToken: Token-level Backdoor Attacks to Multi-modal Large Language Models
• NeurIPS 2024Reproducibility Study on Adversarial Attacks Against Robust Transformer Trackers
• ICML 2024Better Safe than Sorry: Pre-training CLIP against Targeted Data Poisoning and Backdoor Attacks
• ICLR 2024Adversarial Feature Map Pruning for Backdoor
• CVPR 2024Data Poisoning based Backdoor Attacks to Contrastive Learning
• NeurIPS 2023A Unified Detection Framework for Inference-Stage Backdoor Defenses
• ICML 2023Data Poisoning Attacks Against Multimodal Encoders
• ICLR 2023Adversarial Attacks on Adversarial Bandits
• CVPR 2023Architectural Backdoors in Neural Networks
• NeurIPS 2026AI Models Can Provably Hide Arbitrary Capabilities
• ICML 2026DF-LoGiT: Data-Free Logic-Gated Backdoor Attacks in Vision Transformers
• ICLR 2026Don't Shift the Trigger: Robust Gradient Ascent for Backdoor Unlearning
• CVPR 2026Logit-Margin Repulsion for Backdoor Defense

All Backdoor Attacks papers

88 papers, page 2 of 2

51. ICML 2025Test-Time Multimodal Backdoor Detection by Contrastive Prompting
52. ICML 2025The Ripple Effect: On Unforeseen Complications of Backdoor Attacks
53. ICML 2025Trustworthy Machine Learning through Data-Specific Indistinguishability
54. ICML 2024A Theoretical Analysis of Backdoor Poisoning Attacks in Convolutional Neural Networks
55. ICML 2024BadPart: Unified Black-box Adversarial Patch Attacks against Pixel-wise Regression Tasks
56. ICML 2024Better Safe than Sorry: Pre-training CLIP against Targeted Data Poisoning and Backdoor Attacks
57. ICML 2024Causality Based Front-door Defense Against Backdoor Attack on Language Models
58. ICML 2024Data Poisoning Attacks against Conformal Prediction
59. ICML 2024DataFreeShield: Defending Adversarial Attacks without Training Data
60. ICML 2024Defense against Backdoor Attack on Pre-trained Language Models via Head Pruning and Attention Normalization
61. ICML 2024Energy-based Backdoor Defense without Task-Specific Samples and Model Retraining
62. ICML 2024Exact Soft Analytical Side-Channel Attacks using Tractable Circuits
63. ICML 2024Fast Adversarial Attacks on Language Models In One GPU Minute
64. ICML 2024FedREDefense: Defending against Model Poisoning Attacks for Federated Learning using Model Update Reconstruction Error
65. ICML 2024Generalization Bound and New Algorithm for Clean-Label Backdoor Attack
66. ICML 2024IBD-PSC: Input-level Backdoor Detection via Parameter-oriented Scaling Consistency
67. ICML 2024Layer-Aware Analysis of Catastrophic Overfitting: Revealing the Pseudo-Robust Shortcut Dependency
68. ICML 2024Low-Cost High-Power Membership Inference Attacks
69. ICML 2024Membership Inference Attacks on Diffusion Models via Quantile Regression
70. ICML 2024Privacy Attacks in Decentralized Learning
71. ICML 2024Revisiting Character-level Adversarial Attacks for Language Models
72. ICML 2024SHINE: Shielding Backdoors in Deep Reinforcement Learning
73. ICML 2024SignSGD with Federated Defense: Harnessing Adversarial Attacks through Gradient Sign Decoding
74. ICML 2024TERD: A Unified Framework for Safeguarding Diffusion Models Against Backdoors
75. ICML 2024The Pitfalls and Promise of Conformal Inference Under Adversarial Attacks
76. ICML 2024The Stronger the Diffusion Model, the Easier the Backdoor: Data Poisoning to Induce Copyright BreachesWithout Adjusting Finetuning Pipeline
77. ICML 2024Toward Availability Attacks in 3D Point Clouds
78. ICML 2023Are Diffusion Models Vulnerable to Membership Inference Attacks?
79. ICML 2023Data Poisoning Attacks Against Multimodal Encoders
80. ICML 2023Exploring the Limits of Model-Targeted Indiscriminate Data Poisoning Attacks
81. ICML 2023Graph Contrastive Backdoor Attacks
82. ICML 2023MultiRobustBench: Benchmarking Robustness Against Multiple Attacks
83. ICML 2023Preprocessors Matter! Realistic Decision-Based Attacks on Machine Learning Systems
84. ICML 2023Reconstructive Neuron Pruning for Backdoor Defense
85. ICML 2023Rethinking Backdoor Attacks
86. ICML 2023Run-off Election: Improved Provable Defense against Data Poisoning Attacks
87. ICML 2023UMD: Unsupervised Model Detection for X2X Backdoor Attacks
88. ICML 2023Understanding Backdoor Attacks through the Adaptability Hypothesis

FAQ

How many Backdoor Attacks papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?

381 in total: 73 in 2023, 105 in 2024, 92 in 2025, 111 in 2026.

How many Backdoor Attacks papers are at NeurIPS 2026?

NeurIPS 2026 has 36 Backdoor Attacks papers, versus 31 the year before.

How many Backdoor Attacks papers are at ICLR 2026?

ICLR 2026 has 20 Backdoor Attacks papers, versus 25 the year before.

How many Backdoor Attacks papers are at ICML 2026?

ICML 2026 has 36 Backdoor Attacks papers, versus 17 the year before.

How many Backdoor Attacks papers are at CVPR 2026?

CVPR 2026 has 19 Backdoor Attacks papers, versus 19 the year before.

Which conference publishes the most Backdoor Attacks papers?

NeurIPS, with 124 papers from 2023 to 2026.