% Key papers for Training-time backdoor defense (scime atlas, https://atlas.scime.ai). Authors are not included: add them from the paper pages. @inproceedings{iclr2021_neural_30070, title = {{Neural Attention Distillation: Erasing Backdoor Triggers from Deep Neural Networks}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)}, year = {2021}, url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2021/poster/2760}, } @inproceedings{cvpr2023_backdoor_20444, title = {{Backdoor Defense via Adaptively Splitting Poisoned Dataset}}, booktitle = {IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)}, year = {2023}, url = {https://cvpr.thecvf.com/virtual/2023/poster/22486}, } @inproceedings{cvpr2023_backdoor_20445, title = {{Backdoor Defense via Deconfounded Representation Learning}}, booktitle = {IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)}, year = {2023}, url = {https://cvpr.thecvf.com/virtual/2023/poster/22160}, } @inproceedings{cvpr2022_few_18847, title = {{Few-Shot Backdoor Defense Using Shapley Estimation}}, booktitle = {IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)}, year = {2022}, } @inproceedings{neurips2021_anti_62697, title = {{Anti-Backdoor Learning: Training Clean Models on Poisoned Data}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2021}, url = {https://nips.cc/virtual/2021/poster/27835}, } @inproceedings{cvpr2023_detecting_20775, title = {{Detecting Backdoors During the Inference Stage Based on Corruption Robustness Consistency}}, booktitle = {IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)}, year = {2023}, url = {https://cvpr.thecvf.com/virtual/2023/poster/20970}, } @inproceedings{neurips2021_adversarial_61321, title = {{Adversarial Neuron Pruning Purifies Backdoored Deep Models}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2021}, url = {https://nips.cc/virtual/2021/poster/27055}, } @inproceedings{cvpr2023_backdoor_20443, title = {{Backdoor Cleansing With Unlabeled Data}}, booktitle = {IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)}, year = {2023}, url = {https://cvpr.thecvf.com/virtual/2023/poster/21829}, } @inproceedings{cvpr2023_progressive_21923, title = {{Progressive Backdoor Erasing via Connecting Backdoor and Adversarial Attacks}}, booktitle = {IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)}, year = {2023}, url = {https://cvpr.thecvf.com/virtual/2023/poster/21203}, } @inproceedings{iclr2023_scale_33164, title = {{SCALE-UP: An Efficient Black-box Input-level Backdoor Detection via Analyzing Scaled Prediction Consistency}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)}, year = {2023}, url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2023/poster/11731}, } @inproceedings{iclr2022_aeva_31216, title = {{AEVA: Black-box Backdoor Detection Using Adversarial Extreme Value Analysis}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)}, year = {2022}, url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2022/poster/6929}, } @inproceedings{aaai2024_progressive_7003, title = {{Progressive Poisoned Data Isolation for Training-Time Backdoor Defense}}, booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/29023}, } @inproceedings{aaai2024_inspecting_6325, title = {{Inspecting Prediction Confidence for Detecting Black-Box Backdoor Attacks}}, booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/27780}, } @inproceedings{iclr2022_how_30992, title = {{How to Inject Backdoors with Better Consistency: Logit Anchoring on Clean Data}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)}, year = {2022}, url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2022/poster/6256}, } @inproceedings{aaai2025_adversarial_8063, title = {{Adversarial-Inspired Backdoor Defense via Bridging Backdoor and Adversarial Attacks}}, booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)}, year = {2025}, url = {https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/33030}, } @inproceedings{cvpr2024_backdoor_22815, title = {{Backdoor Defense via Test-Time Detecting and Repairing}}, booktitle = {IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://cvpr.thecvf.com/virtual/2024/poster/29483}, } @inproceedings{neurips2023_neural_68338, title = {{Neural Polarizer: A Lightweight and Effective Backdoor Defense via Purifying Poisoned Features}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2023}, url = {https://nips.cc/virtual/2023/poster/71467}, } @inproceedings{neurips2023_towards_67072, title = {{Towards Stable Backdoor Purification through Feature Shift Tuning}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2023}, url = {https://nips.cc/virtual/2023/poster/72630}, } @inproceedings{neurips2022_pre_66390, title = {{Pre-activation Distributions Expose Backdoor Neurons}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2022}, url = {https://nips.cc/virtual/2022/poster/54164}, } @inproceedings{neurips2024_ban_72880, title = {{BAN: Detecting Backdoors Activated by Adversarial Neuron Noise}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://neurips.cc/virtual/2024/poster/94526}, } @inproceedings{iclr2024_badexpert_35407, title = {{BaDExpert: Extracting Backdoor Functionality for Accurate Backdoor Input Detection}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2024/poster/17666}, } @inproceedings{icml2024_ibd_44673, title = {{IBD-PSC: Input-level Backdoor Detection via Parameter-oriented Scaling Consistency}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2024/poster/33779}, } @inproceedings{neurips2024_breaking_71167, title = {{Breaking the False Sense of Security in Backdoor Defense through Re-Activation Attack}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://neurips.cc/virtual/2024/poster/96060}, } @inproceedings{aaai2025_fusing_9258, title = {{Fusing Pruned and Backdoored Models: Optimal Transport-based Data-free Backdoor Mitigation}}, booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)}, year = {2025}, url = {https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/34828}, } @inproceedings{neurips2024_unveiling_71796, title = {{Unveiling and Mitigating Backdoor Vulnerabilities based on Unlearning Weight Changes and Backdoor Activeness}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://neurips.cc/virtual/2024/poster/95499}, } @inproceedings{neurips2024_uncovering_74034, title = {{Uncovering, Explaining, and Mitigating the Superficial Safety of Backdoor Defense}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://neurips.cc/virtual/2024/poster/93490}, } @inproceedings{neurips2025_backdoor_80034, title = {{Backdoor Mitigation via Invertible Pruning Masks}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2025}, url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=vOAtjgCAAO}, } @inproceedings{icml2025_circumventing_47991, title = {{Circumventing Backdoor Space via Weight Symmetry}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2025}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2025/poster/44614}, } @inproceedings{icml2026_statistically_50480, title = {{Statistically Undetectable Backdoors in Deep Neural Networks}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2026}, url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=Clh5CRZpjD}, } @inproceedings{neurips2025_losplit_74996, title = {{LoSplit: Loss-Guided Dynamic Split for Training-Time Defense Against Graph Backdoor Attacks}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2025}, url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=3Cpw7YftBm}, } @inproceedings{iclr2025_refine_80748, title = {{REFINE: Inversion-Free Backdoor Defense via Model Reprogramming}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)}, year = {2025}, url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2025/poster/31020}, } @inproceedings{aaai2026_bedkd_108550, title = {{BeDKD: Backdoor Defense Based on Directional Mapping Module and Adversarial Knowledge Distillation}}, booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)}, year = {2026}, url = {https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/40902}, } @inproceedings{icml2024_energy_44474, title = {{Energy-based Backdoor Defense without Task-Specific Samples and Model Retraining}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2024/poster/33978}, } @inproceedings{icml2025_bi_46877, title = {{Bi-perspective Splitting Defense: Achieving Clean-Seed-Free Backdoor Security}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2025}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2025/poster/45701}, } @inproceedings{cvpr2026_logit_99047, title = {{Logit-Margin Repulsion for Backdoor Defense}}, booktitle = {IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)}, year = {2026}, url = {https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/CVPR2026/html/Yang_Logit-Margin_Repulsion_for_Backdoor_Defense_CVPR_2026_paper.html}, }