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External reasoning systems combine language models with process reward models (PRMs) to select high-quality reasoning paths for complex tasks such as mathematical problem solving. However, these systems are prone to reward hacking, where…

机器学习 · 计算机科学 2025-08-07 Ruike Song , Zeen Song , Huijie Guo , Wenwen Qiang

Reward hacking, where a reasoning model exploits loopholes in a reward function to achieve high rewards without solving the intended task, poses a significant threat. This behavior may be explicit, i.e. verbalized in the model's…

人工智能 · 计算机科学 2026-03-03 Xinpeng Wang , Nitish Joshi , Barbara Plank , Rico Angell , He He

Aligning AI systems with human preferences typically suffers from the infamous reward hacking problem, where optimization of an imperfect reward model leads to undesired behaviors. In this paper, we investigate reward hacking in offline…

机器学习 · 计算机科学 2024-12-13 Paria Rashidinejad , Yuandong Tian

Reward models play a key role in aligning language model applications towards human preferences. However, this setup creates an incentive for the language model to exploit errors in the reward model to achieve high estimated reward, a…

Reward hacking in code generation, where models exploit evaluation loopholes to obtain full reward without correctly solving the tasks, poses a critical challenge for Reinforcement Learning (RL) and the deployment of reasoning models.…

机器学习 · 计算机科学 2026-04-28 Lichen Li , Hengguang Zhou , Yijun Liang , Tianyi Zhou , Cho-Jui Hsieh

Reward Models (RMs) are crucial for online alignment of language models (LMs) with human preferences. However, RM-based preference-tuning is vulnerable to reward hacking, whereby LM policies learn undesirable behaviors from flawed RMs. By…

计算与语言 · 计算机科学 2026-03-05 Daniel Fein , Max Lamparth , Violet Xiang , Mykel J. Kochenderfer , Nick Haber

Recent studies have demonstrated significant progress in aligning text-to-image diffusion models with human preference via Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback. However, while existing methods achieve high scores on automated reward…

计算机视觉与模式识别 · 计算机科学 2026-03-11 Chubin Chen , Sujie Hu , Jiashu Zhu , Meiqi Wu , Jintao Chen , Yanxun Li , Nisha Huang , Chengyu Fang , Jiahong Wu , Xiangxiang Chu , Xiu Li

Most reinforcement learning algorithms implicitly assume strong synchrony. We present novel attacks targeting Q-learning that exploit a vulnerability entailed by this assumption by delaying the reward signal for a limited time period. We…

机器学习 · 计算机科学 2022-09-09 Anindya Sarkar , Jiarui Feng , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik , Christopher Gill , Ning Zhang

Chain-of-thought explanations are widely used to inspect the decision process of large language models (LLMs) and to evaluate the trustworthiness of model outputs, making them important for effective collaboration between LLMs and humans.…

计算与语言 · 计算机科学 2025-07-16 Pedro Ferreira , Wilker Aziz , Ivan Titov

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) remains vulnerable to reward hacking, where models exploit spurious correlations in learned reward models to achieve high scores while violating human intent. Existing mitigations rely on…

人工智能 · 计算机科学 2026-02-03 Mohammad Beigi , Ming Jin , Junshan Zhang , Qifan Wang , Lifu Huang

A reliable reward model is essential for aligning large language models with human preferences through reinforcement learning from human feedback. However, standard reward models are susceptible to spurious features that are not causally…

机器学习 · 计算机科学 2026-05-19 Yupei Yang , Lin Yang , Wanxi Deng , Lin Qu , Fan Feng , Biwei Huang , Shikui Tu , Lei Xu

Finetuning language models with reinforcement learning (RL), e.g. from human feedback (HF), is a prominent method for alignment. But optimizing against a reward model can improve on reward while degrading performance in other areas, a…

计算与语言 · 计算机科学 2023-12-14 Michael Noukhovitch , Samuel Lavoie , Florian Strub , Aaron Courville

Reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) has proven effective in aligning large language models with human preferences, inspiring the development of reward-centric diffusion reinforcement learning (RDRL) to achieve similar…

机器学习 · 计算机科学 2026-03-24 Kwanyoung Kim , Byeongsu Sim

Reward models (RMs) used in reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) are vulnerable to reward hacking: as the policy maximizes a learned proxy reward, true quality plateaus or degrades. We make the assumption that reward hacking is…

机器学习 · 计算机科学 2026-04-06 Shinnosuke Ono , Johannes Ackermann , Soichiro Nishimori , Takashi Ishida , Masashi Sugiyama

Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a standard approach for post-training large language models and, more recently, for improving image generation models, which uses reward functions to enhance generation quality and human preference…

计算机视觉与模式识别 · 计算机科学 2026-01-08 Yunqi Hong , Kuei-Chun Kao , Hengguang Zhou , Cho-Jui Hsieh

Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithms have led to recent successes in solving complex games, such as Atari or Starcraft, and to a huge impact in real-world applications, such as cybersecurity or autonomous driving. In the side of the…

机器学习 · 计算机科学 2021-02-15 Rubén Majadas , Javier García , Fernando Fernández

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) enables powerful LLM alignment but can introduce reward hacking - models exploit spurious correlations in proxy rewards without genuine alignment. Compounding this, the objectives…

人工智能 · 计算机科学 2026-02-24 Mohammad Beigi , Ming Jin , Junshan Zhang , Jiaxin Zhang , Qifan Wang , Lifu Huang

Training language models via reinforcement learning often relies on imperfect proxy rewards, since ground truth rewards that precisely define the intended behavior are rarely available. Standard metrics for assessing the quality of proxy…

机器学习 · 计算机科学 2026-04-29 Shuning Shang , Hubert Strauss , Stanley Wei , Sanjeev Arora , Noam Razin

Recent advances in aligning Large Language Models with human preferences have benefited from larger reward models and better preference data. However, most of these methodologies rely on the accuracy of the reward model. The reward models…

人工智能 · 计算机科学 2024-11-01 Debangshu Banerjee , Aditya Gopalan

Finding meaningful and accurate dense rewards is a fundamental task in the field of reinforcement learning (RL) that enables agents to explore environments more efficiently. In traditional RL settings, agents learn optimal policies through…

人工智能 · 计算机科学 2025-12-05 Shuyuan Zhang