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Research examines reward hacking in rubric-based reinforcement learning, identifying verifier failure and rubric-design limitations as key sources of divergence between training and evaluation metrics.
By Anas Mahmoud, MohammadHossein Rezaei, Zihao Wang and 3 more · arXiv 2605.12474 · PDF
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