#artificial intelligence
Feb 2026
Adversarial Reward Auditing for Active Detection and Mitigation of Reward Hacking
Experiments demonstrate that ARA achieves the best alignment-utility tradeoff among all baselines: reducing sycophancy to near-SFT levels while improving helpfulness, decreasing verbosity while achieving the highest ROUGE-L, and suppressing code gaming while improving Pass@1.
M. Beigi, Ming Jin, Jun-Shan Zhang et al.
· arXiv.org · 13 citations