% Key papers for Detecting poisoned samples (scime atlas, https://atlas.scime.ai). Authors are not included: add them from the paper pages. @inproceedings{iclr2022_adversarial_31186, title = {{Adversarial Unlearning of Backdoors via Implicit Hypergradient}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)}, year = {2022}, url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2022/poster/6180}, } @inproceedings{cvpr2023_defending_20756, title = {{Defending Against Patch-Based Backdoor Attacks on Self-Supervised Learning}}, booktitle = {IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)}, year = {2023}, url = {https://cvpr.thecvf.com/virtual/2023/poster/21779}, } @inproceedings{neurips2022_a_65784, title = {{A Unified Evaluation of Textual Backdoor Learning: Frameworks and Benchmarks}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2022}, url = {https://nips.cc/virtual/2022/poster/55741}, } @inproceedings{cvpr2024_nearest_24267, title = {{Nearest is Not Dearest: Towards Practical Defense against Quantization-conditioned Backdoor Attacks}}, booktitle = {IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://cvpr.thecvf.com/virtual/2024/poster/30600}, } @inproceedings{aaai2024_dataelixir_5602, title = {{DataElixir: Purifying Poisoned Dataset to Mitigate Backdoor Attacks via Diffusion Models}}, booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/30186}, } @inproceedings{icml2021_spectre_39910, title = {{SPECTRE: defending against backdoor attacks using robust statistics}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2021}, url = {https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/hayase21a.html}, } @inproceedings{neurips2023_shared_70103, title = {{Shared Adversarial Unlearning: Backdoor Mitigation by Unlearning Shared Adversarial Examples}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2023}, url = {https://nips.cc/virtual/2023/poster/69874}, } @inproceedings{icml2022_constrained_40358, title = {{Constrained Optimization with Dynamic Bound-scaling for Effective NLP Backdoor Defense}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2022}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2022/poster/17165}, } @inproceedings{neurips2022_effective_64229, title = {{Effective Backdoor Defense by Exploiting Sensitivity of Poisoned Samples}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2022}, url = {https://nips.cc/virtual/2022/poster/55199}, } @inproceedings{neurips2023_defending_67546, title = {{Defending Pre-trained Language Models as Few-shot Learners against Backdoor Attacks}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2023}, url = {https://nips.cc/virtual/2023/poster/72193}, } @inproceedings{aaai2017_optimal_100924, title = {{Optimal Personalized Defense Strategy Against Man-In-The-Middle Attack}}, booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)}, year = {2017}, url = {https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/10565}, } @inproceedings{aaai2025_ufid_11127, title = {{UFID: A Unified Framework for Black-box Input-level Backdoor Detection on Diffusion Models}}, booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)}, year = {2025}, url = {https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/34941}, } @inproceedings{neurips2023_parafuzz_67342, title = {{ParaFuzz: An Interpretability-Driven Technique for Detecting Poisoned Samples in NLP}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2023}, url = {https://nips.cc/virtual/2023/poster/72384}, } @inproceedings{iclr2023_distilling_32599, title = {{Distilling Cognitive Backdoor Patterns within an Image}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)}, year = {2023}, url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2023/poster/12155}, } @inproceedings{neurips2024_mitigating_73016, title = {{Mitigating Backdoor Attack by Injecting Proactive Defensive Backdoor}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://neurips.cc/virtual/2024/poster/94407}, } @inproceedings{neurips2023_black_68391, title = {{Black-box Backdoor Defense via Zero-shot Image Purification}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2023}, url = {https://nips.cc/virtual/2023/poster/71421}, } @inproceedings{aaai2025_backdoor_8225, title = {{Backdoor Token Unlearning: Exposing and Defending Backdoors in Pretrained Language Models}}, booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)}, year = {2025}, url = {https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/34605}, } @inproceedings{aaai2025_two_11119, title = {{Two Sides of the Same Coin: Learning the Backdoor to Remove the Backdoor}}, booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)}, year = {2025}, url = {https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/34441}, } @inproceedings{cvpr2024_attack_22789, title = {{Attack To Defend: Exploiting Adversarial Attacks for Detecting Poisoned Models}}, booktitle = {IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://cvpr.thecvf.com/virtual/2024/poster/31253}, } @inproceedings{neurips2023_bird_69280, title = {{BIRD: Generalizable Backdoor Detection and Removal for Deep Reinforcement Learning}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2023}, url = {https://nips.cc/virtual/2023/poster/70618}, } @inproceedings{neurips2024_sampdetox_72666, title = {{SampDetox: Black-box Backdoor Defense via Perturbation-based Sample Detoxification}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://neurips.cc/virtual/2024/poster/94718}, } @inproceedings{aaai2025_honeypotnet_9454, title = {{HoneypotNet: Backdoor Attacks Against Model Extraction}}, booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)}, year = {2025}, url = {https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/32872}, } @inproceedings{cvpr2025_dede_25864, title = {{DeDe: Detecting Backdoor Samples for SSL Encoders via Decoders}}, booktitle = {IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)}, year = {2025}, url = {https://cvpr.thecvf.com/virtual/2025/poster/35109}, } @inproceedings{iclr2024_backdoor_33484, title = {{Backdoor Secrets Unveiled: Identifying Backdoor Data with Optimized Scaled Prediction Consistency}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2024/poster/19591}, } @inproceedings{aaai2026_towards_107241, title = {{Towards Effective, Stealthy, and Persistent Backdoor Attacks Targeting Graph Foundation Models}}, booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)}, year = {2026}, url = {https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/39593}, } @inproceedings{neurips2025_defending_76568, title = {{Defending Multimodal Backdoored Models by Repulsive Visual Prompt Tuning}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2025}, url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=KkONOZwvSU}, } @inproceedings{iclr2025_activation_82374, title = {{Activation Gradient based Poisoned Sample Detection Against Backdoor Attacks}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)}, year = {2025}, url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2025/poster/29418}, } @inproceedings{iclr2026_reliable_88697, title = {{Reliable Poisoned Sample Detection against Backdoor Attacks Enhanced by Sharpness Aware Minimization}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)}, year = {2026}, url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=q5ePtZc9N7}, } @inproceedings{aaai2026_transferable_99843, title = {{Transferable Backdoor Attacks for Code Models via Sharpness-Aware Adversarial Perturbation}}, booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)}, year = {2026}, url = {https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/36964}, } @inproceedings{aaai2026_dift_100090, title = {{DIFT: Protecting Contrastive Learning Against Data Poisoning Backdoor Attacks}}, booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)}, year = {2026}, url = {https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/37141}, } @inproceedings{aaai2026_dup_108014, title = {{DUP: Detection-guided Unlearning for Backdoor Purification in Language Models}}, booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)}, year = {2026}, url = {https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/40366}, } @inproceedings{aaai2026_purmm_108515, title = {{PurMM: Attention-Guided Test-Time Backdoor Purification in Multimodal Large Language Models}}, booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)}, year = {2026}, url = {https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/40867}, } @inproceedings{icml2025_test_45924, title = {{Test-Time Multimodal Backdoor Detection by Contrastive Prompting}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2025}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2025/poster/46621}, }