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arXiv AI By Bingxin Xu, Yuzhang Shang, Binghui Wang, Emilio Ferrara

SilentDrift: Exploiting Action Chunking for Stealthy Backdoor Attacks on Vision-Language-Action Models

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arXiv:2601. 14323v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models are increasingly deployed in safety-critical robotic applications, yet their security vulnerabilities remain underexplored.

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