構造認識型ロバスト微調整:物理的注意ハイジャックに対する視覚言語行動ロボットの防御
Structure-Aware Robust Fine-Tuning: Defending Vision-Language-Action Robots Against Physical Attention Hijacking
物理的な敵対的パッチ攻撃がVLAロボットの注意を乗っ取る問題を特定し、攻撃手法AGSDと防御手法SARFを提案。SARFは視覚エンコーダのみを微調整し、攻撃下での失敗率を大幅に低減する。
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著者: Jinquan Zhang, Dongfu Yin, Run Yang, Yufeng Yan, Zhen Tian, F. Richard Yu
分類: cs.RO, cs.AI
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Vision-Language-Action (VLA) policies promise general robotic manipulation, but their robustness against physical-world attacks remains fragile. In particular, we show that physically realizable adversarial patches can reliably induce failures by triggering a mechanism we call policy-critical action-to-vision attention hijacking, where action-conditioned attention is diverted from task-relevant regions to a localized patch. To demonstrate the threat, we propose Attention-Guided Semantic Disruption (AGSD), an Expectation-over-Transformation (EOT) optimized printable patch that jointly (i) concentrates action-to-vision attention on the patch and (ii) disrupts vision-language semantic alignment, yielding strong cross-task and cross-architecture transfer. To mitigate such attacks, we introduce Structure-Aware Robust Fine-Tuning (SARF), a zero-inference-overhead defense that fine-tunes only the visual encoder using feature anchoring, policy-critical attention correction, and language-guided geometric consistency restricted to semantically relevant regions. On LIBERO, SARF reduces OpenVLA's failure rate under AGSD from 100% to 14.2%-56.8% (28.6% average) across suites while preserving clean performance, and on a real PiPER manipulator it improves average success under AGSD from 23.0% to 65.0%. These results highlight mechanism-level robustness as a practical path to securing VLA robots against physical attention hijacking.