arXiv:2606. 16605v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World models are widely used in robotic and agentic engineering control systems due to their ability to learn latent dynamics for planning and decision-making.
By Junjian Zhang, Hao Tan, Ruonan Li, Dong Zhu, Aiping Li, Zhaoquan Gu
arXiv:2605.23220v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Despite the growing use of world models as decision-making agents, their adversarial robustness remains underexplored due to the lack of dedicated...
By Zhixiang Guo, Siyuan Liang, Shi Fu, Cheng Guo, Andras Balogh, Mark Jelasity, Dacheng Tao
arXiv:2609.15781v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Pretrained world models, learned simulators that encode an observation into a latent state and predict how it evolves under actions, are beginning to...
By Roberto Ria\~no, Gorka Abad, Stjepan Picek, Aitor Urbieta
World models give embodied AI a predictive core: they compress observations into states, simulate action-conditioned futures, and enable planning beyond reactive control. This predictive layer, however, opens a new security boundary-compromise can propagate from data, sensors, prompts, or feedback into physical action.
arXiv:2607. 16242v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Fine-Tuning-as-a-Service (FTaaS) platforms let users train large language models (LLMs) on customized tasks, but this pipeline could erode models' safety alignment.
By Changyue Li, Jiaming He, Youliang Yuan, Jialin Wu, Boxi Yu, Zhicong Huang, Pinjia He
arXiv:2607. 15207v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World-action models (WAMs) are emerging as a promising foundation for embodied control: rather than predicting actions alone, they learn representations that couple action generation with future world prediction.
By Qi Li, Xingyi Yang, Xinchao Wang
arXiv:2609.23753v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Generative world models aim to predict future states conditioned on actions, where action controllability is fundamental for reliable dynamics modeli...
By Yikun Miao, Fangqi Zhu, Quanxin Shou, Xiaoyi Pang, Zhengyang Yan, Junhao Li, Haodong Wang, Zicong Hong, Song Guo
arXiv:2608.22421v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: World models predict action-conditioned futures and serve as critical internal simulators for downstream planning and control. However, catastrophic pr...
By Zhanpeng Shi, Zi Liang, Rong Feng, Shiqin Tang, Xuyang Chen, Hongzong Li
As large language models (LLMs) are deployed in high-stakes domains, adversaries may poison training data to implant backdoors: hidden triggers that covertly manipulate model behavior at inference time. We ask whether a defender can recover such a trigger under realistic affordances, namely white-box access to the weights and knowledge of the behavior of concern, but no training data, no trusted reference model, no knowledge of the trigger, and no certainty that the model is poisoned.
TrojanWorld is a backdoor framework that targets world-model agents by steering their internal imagination toward attacker-specified actions when a physical trigger is present. The attack uses Decision-Reflective Induction, Clean Behavior Anchoring, and Causal Propagation to maintain stealth, persistence, and high performance. Experiments on TD-MPC2, DreamerV3, and R2-Dreamer across several benchmarks show that the attack can induce target actions with minimal performance loss and can keep agents on a malicious trajectory even after the trigger is removed.
By Wenkai Huang, Siyuan Liang, Gaolei Li, Yiming Li, Tianhao Peng, Jianhua Li, Dacheng Tao
arXiv:2606. 04929v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM post-training proceeds through multiple stages, e.
By Jack Sanderson, Yihan Wang, Xiaoqian Lu, Gautam Kamath, Yiwei Lu
arXiv:2607. 26849v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As large language models (LLMs) are deployed in high-stakes domains, adversaries may poison training data to implant backdoors: hidden triggers that covertly manipulate model behavior at inference time.
By Anthony Hughes, Nicole Xing, Collin Francel, Andy Kim, Andrew Draganov