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

31 papers, page 1 of 1

1. NeurIPS 2025A Set of Generalized Components to Achieve Effective Poison-only Clean-label Backdoor Attacks with Collaborative Sample Selection and Triggers
2. NeurIPS 2025Adversarial Paraphrasing: A Universal Attack for Humanizing AI-Generated Text
3. NeurIPS 2025Attack by Yourself: Effective and Unnoticeable Multi-Category Graph Backdoor Attacks with Subgraph Triggers Pool
4. NeurIPS 2025Backdoor Mitigation via Invertible Pruning Masks
5. NeurIPS 2025BackdoorDM: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Backdoor Learning on Diffusion Model
6. NeurIPS 2025BackdoorLLM: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Backdoor Attacks and Defenses on Large Language Models
7. NeurIPS 2025BadVLA: Towards Backdoor Attacks on Vision-Language-Action Models via Objective-Decoupled Optimization
8. NeurIPS 2025Competitive Advantage Attacks to Decentralized Federated Learning
9. NeurIPS 2025Defending Multimodal Backdoored Models by Repulsive Visual Prompt Tuning
10. NeurIPS 2025Efficient Federated Learning against Byzantine Attacks and Data Heterogeneity via Aggregating Normalized Gradients
11. NeurIPS 2025Enhancing LLM Watermark Resilience Against Both Scrubbing and Spoofing Attacks
12. NeurIPS 2025FedRACE: A Hierarchical and Statistical Framework for Robust Federated Learning
13. NeurIPS 2025From Dormant to Deleted: Tamper-Resistant Unlearning Through Weight-Space Regularization
14. NeurIPS 2025ICLScan: Detecting Backdoors in Black-Box Large Language Models via Targeted In-context Illumination
15. NeurIPS 2025Latency NMS Attacks: Is It Real Life or Is It Just Fantasy?
16. NeurIPS 2025Lie Detector: Unified Backdoor Detection via Cross-Examination Framework
17. NeurIPS 2025LoSplit: Loss-Guided Dynamic Split for Training-Time Defense Against Graph Backdoor Attacks
18. NeurIPS 2025MARS: A Malignity-Aware Backdoor Defense in Federated Learning
19. NeurIPS 2025Provable Watermarking for Data Poisoning Attacks
20. NeurIPS 2025RepGuard: Adaptive Feature Decoupling for Robust Backdoor Defense in Large Language Models
21. NeurIPS 2025SilentStriker: Toward Stealthy Bit-Flip Attacks on Large Language Models
22. NeurIPS 2025SNEAKDOOR: Stealthy Backdoor Attacks against Distribution Matching-based Dataset Condensation
23. NeurIPS 2025Stealthy Yet Effective: Distribution-Preserving Backdoor Attacks on Graph Classification
24. NeurIPS 2025Taught Well Learned Ill: Towards Distillation-conditional Backdoor Attack
25. NeurIPS 2025Temporal Logic-Based Multi-Vehicle Backdoor Attacks against Offline RL Agents in End-to-end Autonomous Driving
26. NeurIPS 2025The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Meta-Analysis of Watermarks, Transferable Attacks and Adversarial Defenses
27. NeurIPS 2025ToxicTextCLIP: Text-Based Poisoning and Backdoor Attacks on CLIP Pre-training
28. NeurIPS 2025Tracing Back the Malicious Clients in Poisoning Attacks to Federated Learning
29. NeurIPS 2025TransferBench: Benchmarking Ensemble-based Black-box Transfer Attacks
30. NeurIPS 2025Unmasking Puppeteers: Leveraging Biometric Leakage to Expose Impersonation in AI-Based Videoconferencing
31. NeurIPS 2025Who Speaks for the Trigger? Dynamic Expert Routing in Backdoored Mixture-of-Experts Transformers

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.