Machine Heart
Machine Heart
Apr 7, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

How LaSM Pulls GUI Agents’ Attention Back from Deceptive Pop‑up Attacks

The paper introduces LaSM (Layer‑wise Scaling Mechanism), a training‑free weight‑scaling patch that restores GUI agents’ focus by selectively amplifying attention and MLP weights in critical middle layers, effectively defending against pop‑up‑style environment injection attacks without retraining or altering model architecture.

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How LaSM Pulls GUI Agents’ Attention Back from Deceptive Pop‑up Attacks