arXiv Machine Learning June 9, 2026 By Ji Guo, Wenbo Jiang, Yansong Lin, Yijing Liu, Ruichen Zhang, Guomin Lu, Aiguo Chen, Xinshuo Han, Hongwei Li

State Backdoor: Towards Stealthy Real-world Poisoning Attack on Vision-Language-Action Model in State Space

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