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

110 papers, page 3 of 3

101. NeurIPS 2026ShadowFPT: Backdooring Federated Prompt Tuning via Shadow Triggers
102. NeurIPS 2026Skill-Inject: Measuring Agent Vulnerability to Skill File Attacks
103. NeurIPS 2026The Platonic Defense: Backdoor Defense for Self-Supervised Encoders in the Era of Large Scale Pre-training
104. NeurIPS 2026Token by Token, Compromised: Backdoor Vulnerabilities in Unified Autoregressive Models
105. NeurIPS 2026Towards Universal Black-box Attacks on Graph Neural Networks
106. NeurIPS 2026TraceGuard: Defending Multi-Turn Jailbreak Attacks via Prompt-Response Risk Signal Tracking
107. NeurIPS 2026Training-Based Backdoors Are Not Cryptographic
108. NeurIPS 2026VOID: Backdoor Injection through Knowledge Vacuity in Federated Unlearning
109. NeurIPS 2026When Sanitization Becomes the Trigger: Defense-Triggered Backdoor Attacks
110. NeurIPS 2026Your Neighbors Know: Leveraging Local Neighborhoods for Backdoor Detection in Decentralized Learning

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.