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

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1. ICML 2025A Closer Look at Backdoor Attacks on CLIP
2. ICML 2025Adversarial Inception Backdoor Attacks against Reinforcement Learning
3. ICML 2025Backdoor Attacks in Token Selection of Attention Mechanism
4. ICML 2025Bi-perspective Splitting Defense: Achieving Clean-Seed-Free Backdoor Security
5. ICML 2025Circumventing Backdoor Space via Weight Symmetry
6. ICML 2025CROW: Eliminating Backdoors from Large Language Models via Internal Consistency Regularization
7. ICML 2025Does Low Rank Adaptation Lead to Lower Robustness against Training-Time Attacks?
8. ICML 2025Emoji Attack: Enhancing Jailbreak Attacks Against Judge LLM Detection
9. ICML 2025Flexible, Efficient, and Stable Adversarial Attacks on Machine Unlearning
10. ICML 2025HyperNear: Unnoticeable Node Injection Attacks on Hypergraph Neural Networks
11. ICML 2025ICLShield: Exploring and Mitigating In-Context Learning Backdoor Attacks
12. ICML 2025Optimizing Adaptive Attacks against Watermarks for Language Models
13. ICML 2025PoisonBench: Assessing Language Model Vulnerability to Poisoned Preference Data
14. ICML 2025SPMC: Self-Purifying Federated Backdoor Defense via Margin Contribution
15. ICML 2025Test-Time Multimodal Backdoor Detection by Contrastive Prompting
16. ICML 2025The Ripple Effect: On Unforeseen Complications of Backdoor Attacks
17. ICML 2025Trustworthy Machine Learning through Data-Specific Indistinguishability

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.