arXiv:2601. 04266v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models are widely deployed in safety-critical embodied AI applications such as robotics.
By Ji Guo, Wenbo Jiang, Yansong Lin, Yijing Liu, Ruichen Zhang, Guomin Lu, Aiguo Chen, Xinshuo Han, Hongwei Li
arXiv:2609.39178v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Recently, Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have revolutionized robotic manipulation by seamlessly integrating visual perception, language understa...
By Songhua Yang, Ziyu Liu, Yuanwei Liu, Xuetao Li, Xuanye Fei, He Huang, Zheng Wang, Miao Li
arXiv:2608. 10393v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have shown strong capabilities in controlling robots across diverse manipulation tasks.
By Jiahui Han, Yuhui Yao, Xin Wang, Jiafei Cao, Mingxuan Zhang, Danfeng Shan, Huiqi Deng, Guanchu Wang, Xia Hu
The paper introduces Configured Failure Trapping, a new backdoor attack targeting Vision‑Language‑Action (VLA) models that activates through subtle textual triggers and forces the robot to fail in a specific, controlled manner. It presents a data engine for generating high‑quality target trajectories, an automated evaluation suite, and two benchmarks—Trap‑LIBERO and Trap‑RoboTwin—covering four failure modes. The authors propose TrapVLA, a method that learns trigger‑induced action residuals to steer policies toward the desired failure behavior, demonstrating effectiveness in both simulation and real‑world robotic experiments while maintaining performance on clean data.
By Jun-Hui Liu, Kun-Yu Lin, Yi-Lin Wei, Xu-Han Chen, Yinghao Li, Zhuohao Li, Yuan-Ming Li, Qing Zhang, Xiaoyi Fan, Dongmei Jiang, Yan Li, Wei-Shi Zheng
arXiv:2609.39047v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Interactive video generation (IVG) models have achieved remarkable progress in producing controllable visual content guided by user-defined actions, ye...
By Zhihang Wu, Zhongqi Wang, Jie Zhang, Fengming Gu, Shiguang Shan, Xilin Chen
arXiv:2607. 11063v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Despite progress in Embodied AI, Vision-and-Language Navigation systems remain vulnerable to adversarial visual disturbances.
By Chenyang Li, Kaige Li, Zeyu Jiang, Changhao Chen
arXiv:2511.18921v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Backdoor attacks undermine the reliability and trustworthiness of machine learning systems by injecting hidden behaviors that can be maliciously ac...
By Juncheng Li, Yige Li, Hanxun Huang, Yunhao Chen, Xin Wang, Yixu Wang, Xingjun Ma, Yu-Gang Jiang
arXiv:2608. 03231v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) policies promise general robotic manipulation, but their robustness against physical-world attacks remains fragile.
By Jinquan Zhang, Dongfu Yin, Run Yang, Yufeng Yan, Zhen Tian, F. Richard Yu
The paper introduces FailureSpot, a label‑efficient method for detecting failures at the timestamp level in vision‑language‑action (VLA) policies. It first generates weak supervision from unlabeled VLA action chunks by identifying abnormal patterns, then employs active learning to annotate only the most uncertain trajectories. Experiments on multiple VLA policies demonstrate improved performance for both timestamp‑level and trajectory‑level failure detection.
By Jie Ma, Zongxi Liu, Yi Zhu
arXiv:2508. 08521v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision Language Models (VLMs) are increasingly being used in a broad range of applications, bringing their security and behavioral control to the forefront.
By Mansi Phute, Ravikumar Balakrishnan
arXiv:2608. 13453v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have emerged as generalist robotic policies capable of following diverse language instructions and performing a wide range of manipulation tasks.
By Yukun Dai, Mingzhe Dai, Tianshi Wang, Fengling Li, Jingjing Li, Lei Zhu
arXiv:2607. 04146v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This work establishes that trigger-word data poisoning of vision language action models is practical, while at the same time the open-source robotics ecosystem holds trust assumptions about community contributions.
By Stefan B\"uhler, Mark Schutera