arxivcs.ROcs.AIcs.CLcs.CRcs.LG2026-07-05
!Imperio, smolVLA: The Implications of Data Poisoning on Open Source Robotics
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. A few poisoned samples can silently embed a backdoor that disable…