Backdoor Attacks papers, 2023–2026
Triggers and detection
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 381 papers are tagged with this topic.
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.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 21 | 15 | 11 | 26 | 73 |
| 2024 | 36 | 27 | 24 | 18 | 105 |
| 2025 | 31 | 25 | 17 | 19 | 92 |
| 2026 | 36 | 20 | 36 | 19 | 111 |
Representative papers
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- 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
36 papers, page 1 of 1
- NeurIPS 20242D-OOB: Attributing Data Contribution Through Joint Valuation Framework
- NeurIPS 2024Amnesia as a Catalyst for Enhancing Black Box Pixel Attacks in Image Classification and Object Detection
- NeurIPS 2024BackdoorAlign: Mitigating Fine-tuning based Jailbreak Attack with Backdoor Enhanced Safety Alignment
- NeurIPS 2024BackTime: Backdoor Attacks on Multivariate Time Series Forecasting
- NeurIPS 2024Bag of Tricks: Benchmarking of Jailbreak Attacks on LLMs
- NeurIPS 2024BAN: Detecting Backdoors Activated by Adversarial Neuron Noise
- NeurIPS 2024Bileve: Securing Text Provenance in Large Language Models Against Spoofing with Bi-level Signature
- NeurIPS 2024Breaking the False Sense of Security in Backdoor Defense through Re-Activation Attack
- NeurIPS 2024Data Free Backdoor Attacks
- NeurIPS 2024Efficient Availability Attacks against Supervised and Contrastive Learning Simultaneously
- NeurIPS 2024Faster Repeated Evasion Attacks in Tree Ensembles
- NeurIPS 2024Feature-Level Adversarial Attacks and Ranking Disruption for Visible-Infrared Person Re-identification
- NeurIPS 2024Full-Distance Evasion of Pedestrian Detectors in the Physical World
- NeurIPS 2024Gradient Cuff: Detecting Jailbreak Attacks on Large Language Models by Exploring Refusal Loss Landscapes
- NeurIPS 2024Improved Few-Shot Jailbreaking Can Circumvent Aligned Language Models and Their Defenses
- NeurIPS 2024Intruding with Words: Towards Understanding Graph Injection Attacks at the Text Level
- NeurIPS 2024LT-Defense: Searching-free Backdoor Defense via Exploiting the Long-tailed Effect
- NeurIPS 2024Membership Inference Attacks against Fine-tuned Large Language Models via Self-prompt Calibration
- NeurIPS 2024Mitigating Backdoor Attack by Injecting Proactive Defensive Backdoor
- NeurIPS 2024OSLO: One-Shot Label-Only Membership Inference Attacks
- NeurIPS 2024Parameter Disparities Dissection for Backdoor Defense in Heterogeneous Federated Learning
- NeurIPS 2024Pseudo-Private Data Guided Model Inversion Attacks
- NeurIPS 2024Reconstruction Attacks on Machine Unlearning: Simple Models are Vulnerable
- NeurIPS 2024Reproducibility Study on Adversarial Attacks Against Robust Transformer Trackers
- NeurIPS 2024Revisiting Adversarial Patches for Designing Camera-Agnostic Attacks against Person Detection
- NeurIPS 2024SampDetox: Black-box Backdoor Defense via Perturbation-based Sample Detoxification
- NeurIPS 2024Scanning Trojaned Models Using Out-of-Distribution Samples
- NeurIPS 2024SleeperNets: Universal Backdoor Poisoning Attacks Against Reinforcement Learning Agents
- NeurIPS 2024Stealth edits to large language models
- NeurIPS 2024Trap-MID: Trapdoor-based Defense against Model Inversion Attacks
- NeurIPS 2024Tree of Attacks: Jailbreaking Black-Box LLMs Automatically
- NeurIPS 2024Uncovering, Explaining, and Mitigating the Superficial Safety of Backdoor Defense
- NeurIPS 2024Unelicitable Backdoors via Cryptographic Transformer Circuits
- NeurIPS 2024Unveiling and Mitigating Backdoor Vulnerabilities based on Unlearning Weight Changes and Backdoor Activeness
- NeurIPS 2024Watch Out for Your Agents! Investigating Backdoor Threats to LLM-Based Agents
- NeurIPS 2024WaveAttack: Asymmetric Frequency Obfuscation-based Backdoor Attacks Against Deep Neural Networks
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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.