# World model security and GUI agents

Area: [World models](https://mlsanity.com/wm/index.md). HTML: https://mlsanity.com/wm/world-model-security-and-gui-agents/

## Key facts

- World model security and GUI agents: 32 papers on arXiv since 2020 (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- 9 of its 32 mapped papers (28%) cite “ViMo: A Generative Visual GUI World Model for App Agents” (2025, arXiv 2504.13936).
- 7 of its 32 mapped papers (22%) cite “MobileWorldBench: Towards Semantic World Modeling For Mobile Agents” (2025, arXiv 2512.14014).
- 8 new papers 17 Sep–14 Oct.

## Most cited here

- [ViMo: A Generative Visual GUI World Model for App Agents](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2504.13936/) (2025), cited by 9 papers here
- [MobileWorldBench: Towards Semantic World Modeling For Mobile Agents](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2512.14014/) (2025), cited by 7 papers here
- [MobileDreamer: Generative Sketch World Model for GUI Agent](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2601.04035/) (2026), cited by 7 papers here
- [When World Models Dream Wrong: Physical-Conditioned Adversarial Attacks against World Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2602.18739/) (2026), cited by 7 papers here
- [Code2World: A GUI World Model via Renderable Code Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2602.09856/) (2026), cited by 4 papers here
- [Generative Visual Code Mobile World Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2602.01576/) (2026), cited by 3 papers here
- [TRAP: Tail-aware Ranking Attack for World-Model Planning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2605.01950/) (2026), cited by 3 papers here
- [WMAttack: Automated Attack Search for Adversarial Evaluation of World-Model Agents](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2605.23220/) (2026), cited by 3 papers here
- [SafePred: A Predictive Guardrail for Computer-Using Agents via World Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2602.01725/) (2026), cited by 2 papers here
- [How Mobile World Model Guides GUI Agents?](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2605.10347/) (2026), cited by 2 papers here

## New (17 Sep–14 Oct)

- [Right Screen, Wrong Transition: World Models as Verifiers for GUI Agents](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2610.11942/) (2026-10-08)
- [World Models Dream of Success: Diagnosing and Repairing Failure Insensitivity in Robot World Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2610.09134/) (2026-10-06)
- [AdvSim2Real : Training Web Agents Against Adaptive Prompt Injection in a Web World Model](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2610.08773/) (2026-10-06)
- [Mind the Execution Gap: Action-Semantic Mismatch in World-Model Control](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2610.06582/) (2026-10-05)
- [Imagine to Act: High-Fidelity Data Synthesis via Image Editing World Model for Scalable GUI Agent Training](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2610.05861/) (2026-10-05)
- [AutoGUIWorld: Image Generators as Visual World Models for GUI Agent](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2610.01215/) (2026-10-01)
- [The GUI Is Not the State: Diagnosing State Aliasing in GUI World Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2609.32679/) (2026-09-26)
- [CyberWorld: World Models for Sample-Efficient Autonomous Cyber Defense](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2609.31893/) (2026-09-25)