Privacy Attacks papers, 2023–2026
Membership inference and attacks
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 698 papers are tagged with this topic.
Key findings
- Privacy Attacks went from 124 papers in 2023 to 219 in 2026, roughly 1.8x in three years.
- ICLR publishes the most Privacy Attacks work: 262 papers from 2023 to 2026, 38% of the four-venue total.
- The fastest-growing overlap is with Alignment and Safety: papers tagged with both rose from 2 in 2023 to 80 in 2026.
- Among the 5 topics under Federated and Privacy, it ranks #1 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Secure Aggregation, is up 1.8x versus 1.8x here.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 46 | 24 | 29 | 25 | 124 |
| 2024 | 63 | 53 | 42 | 22 | 180 |
| 2025 | 45 | 83 | 29 | 18 | 175 |
| 2026 | 55 | 102 | 38 | 24 | 219 |
Representative papers
Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up
- NeurIPS 2026A Private Empirical Defense Against Privacy Audits
- ICML 2026A Statistical Framework for Analyzing Specification Resistance to Learnware-Inversion Risks
- ICLR 2026(Token-Level) \textbf{InfoRMIA}: Stronger Membership Inference and Privacy Assessment for LLMs
- CVPR 2026Out of Sight Out of Track Adversarial Attacks on Propagation-based
- NeurIPS 2025A Reliable Cryptographic Framework for Empirical Machine Unlearning Evaluation
- ICML 2025A Certified Unlearning Approach without Access to Source Data
- ICLR 2025Adversarial Attacks on Data Attribution
- CVPR 2025Adv-CPG: A Customized Portrait Generation Framework with Facial Adversarial Attacks
- NeurIPS 2024Reproducibility Study on Adversarial Attacks Against Robust Transformer Trackers
- ICML 2024Collective Certified Robustness against Graph Injection Attacks
- ICLR 2024Be Careful What You Smooth For: Label Smoothing Can Be a Privacy Shield but Also a Catalyst for Model Inversion Attacks
- CVPR 2024Efficient Privacy-Preserving Visual Localization Using 3D Ray Clouds
- NeurIPS 2023Bounding the Invertibility of Privacy-preserving Instance Encoding using Fisher Information
- ICML 2023Data Poisoning Attacks Against Multimodal Encoders
- ICLR 2023Adversarial Attacks on Adversarial Bandits
- CVPR 2023Can't Steal? Cont-Steal! Contrastive Stealing Attacks Against Image Encoders
- NeurIPS 2026Adaptive Target-Charging with Privacy Filters and Individual Accounting
- ICML 2026How does Bayesian Sampling help Membership Inference Attacks?
- ICLR 2026Beyond Membership: Limitations of Add/Remove Adjacency in Differential Privacy
- CVPR 2026Revisiting Geometric Obfuscation with Dual Convergent Lines for Privacy-Preserving Image
All Privacy Attacks papers
55 papers, page 1 of 2
- NeurIPS 2026A Private Empirical Defense Against Privacy Audits
- NeurIPS 2026A Unified Framework for Adversary-Aware Differential Privacy Bounds
- NeurIPS 2026Adaptive Target-Charging with Privacy Filters and Individual Accounting
- NeurIPS 2026Aegis: Generative Gradient Masking for Privacy-Preserving Medical Federated Learning
- NeurIPS 2026Assessing Per-Sample Membership Inference Vulnerability without Retraining
- NeurIPS 2026Asymmetric Invertible Threat: Learning Reversible Privacy Defense for Face Recognition
- NeurIPS 2026Asymptotically Optimal Best Arm Identification with Fixed-Budget under Differential Privacy
- NeurIPS 2026Auditing Privacy Leakage in Tabular Foundation Model Embeddings
- NeurIPS 2026Backdoor Attacks under Lossy Compression: From Failure to Reactivation and Adaptation
- NeurIPS 2026Bayesian Low-Rank Posteriors for Scalable Membership Inference
- NeurIPS 2026Benchmarking Membership Privacy Risks in Preference-Based LLM Post-Training
- NeurIPS 2026Beyond Fixed Benchmarks and Worst-Case Attacks: Dynamic Boundary Evaluation for Language Models
- NeurIPS 2026Causal Evaluation of Membership Inference Attacks
- NeurIPS 2026Cyclic Denoising Reveals Ultrastable Memories in Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2026ERIS: Enhancing Privacy and Scalability in Federated Learning via Federated Shard Aggregation
- NeurIPS 2026Estimating Model-Level Membership Inference Vulnerability Without Reference Models
- NeurIPS 2026Evaluating an Evaluation: Membership Inference Attacks as Machine Unlearning Diagnostics
- NeurIPS 2026GitInject: Real-World Prompt Injection Attacks in AI-Powered CI/CD Pipelines
- NeurIPS 2026Guarding the Life Code: Preserving Membership Privacy in Genomic Foundation Models
- NeurIPS 2026HelpBench: Assessing the Ability of LLMs to Provide Privacy, Safety, and Security Advice
- NeurIPS 2026How Far Are VLMs from Privacy Awareness in the Physical World? An Empirical Study
- NeurIPS 2026HPE: Hallucinated Positive Entanglement for Backdoor Attacks in Federated Self-Supervised Learning
- NeurIPS 2026Improved Regret bounds in Tabular Reinforcement Learning under Local Differential Privacy
- NeurIPS 2026Latent-space Attacks for Refusal Evasion in Language Models
- NeurIPS 2026Learning Lotteries with Minimal Violations from Membership Queries
- NeurIPS 2026Learning Robust Representations for Defending White-Box Adversarial Attacks in Continual Learning
- NeurIPS 2026Learning the Signature of Memorization in Autoregressive Language Models
- NeurIPS 2026Leveraging Soft Prompts for Privacy Attacks in Federated Prompt Tuning
- NeurIPS 2026Local FDR Membership Inference Attacks: Multiple Testing and the Role of Ridge Regularization
- NeurIPS 2026MPCI-Bench: A Benchmark for Multimodal Pairwise Contextual Integrity Privacy Evaluation of Language Model Agents
- NeurIPS 2026MVPISplat: Multi-View Photometric Inconsistency for Defending 3D Gaussian Splatting Attacks
- NeurIPS 2026Neural Reconstruction of LiDAR Point Clouds under Jamming Attacks via Full-Waveform Representation and Simultaneous Laser Sensing
- NeurIPS 2026Poisoning Attacks on LLMs Require a Near-constant Number of Poison Samples
- NeurIPS 2026Practical Adversarial Attacks on Stochastic Bandits via Fake Data Injection
- NeurIPS 2026Privacy by Postprocessing the Discrete Laplace Mechanism
- NeurIPS 2026Privacy Meets Hierarchy: Differentially Private Distributed Trilevel Learning
- NeurIPS 2026Privacy Risk Scales with Effective Dimension in Federated Learning
- NeurIPS 2026Provable Robustness against Backdoor Attacks via the Primal-Dual Perspective on Differential Privacy
- NeurIPS 2026Sampling-Free Privacy Accounting for Matrix Mechanisms under Random Allocation
- NeurIPS 2026Sequential Membership Inference Attacks
- NeurIPS 2026Shuffle and Joint Differential Privacy for Generalized Linear Contextual Bandits
- NeurIPS 2026Skill-Inject: Measuring Agent Vulnerability to Skill File Attacks
- NeurIPS 2026SMI: Statistical Membership Inference for Reliable Unlearned Model Auditing
- NeurIPS 2026Sort, Partition, Randomize: Optimal Binary Hypothesis Testing under Local Differential Privacy
- NeurIPS 2026Stage-wise Attention-Guided Region Sequencing for Adversarial Attacks on Large Vision-Language Models
- NeurIPS 2026Surrogate Calibration for Transferable Adversarial Attacks against Black-Box MLLMs
- NeurIPS 2026The Price of Locality in Label Privacy: Optimal Rates for Classification and Regression
- NeurIPS 2026The Web Doesn't Sit Still: Adversarial Self-Evolving Attacks on Search Agents
- NeurIPS 2026Towards Universal Black-box Attacks on Graph Neural Networks
- NeurIPS 2026TRACE: Data-Free Text Reconstruction Attacks against Approximate Unlearning in LLMs
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FAQ
- How many Privacy Attacks papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?
- 698 in total: 124 in 2023, 180 in 2024, 175 in 2025, 219 in 2026.
- How many Privacy Attacks papers are at NeurIPS 2026?
- NeurIPS 2026 has 55 Privacy Attacks papers, versus 45 the year before.
- How many Privacy Attacks papers are at ICLR 2026?
- ICLR 2026 has 102 Privacy Attacks papers, versus 83 the year before.
- How many Privacy Attacks papers are at ICML 2026?
- ICML 2026 has 38 Privacy Attacks papers, versus 29 the year before.
- How many Privacy Attacks papers are at CVPR 2026?
- CVPR 2026 has 24 Privacy Attacks papers, versus 18 the year before.
- Which conference publishes the most Privacy Attacks papers?
- ICLR, with 262 papers from 2023 to 2026.