RLVR 中跨提示共享如何双向影响奖励破解：arXiv 新研究给出统一解释
Wrong the Same Way: Cross-Prompt Sharing Both Suppresses and Amplifies Reward Hacking in RLVR
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一项 NeurIPS 2026 工作坊论文在可精确计算整个响应分布的受控小环境中研究 RLVR 与不完美验证器的交互。研究发现，在 KL 正则最优处 RLVR 只是过滤器，奖励破解率完全继承自基座模型；而参数共享使跨提示耦合放大高接受度的泄漏、抑制低接受度的泄漏，最终破解水平取决于学习率。据此作者提出，验证器修补应针对模型跨提示重复的错误——错误数相同的两个补丁在真实准确率上相差最多 38 个点。
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Abstract:Two accounts of how reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) interacts with an imperfect verifier coexist: in one, reward hacking is inherited from the base model; in the other, RL amplifies it. We study both in a controlled environment small enough to compute the entire response distribution exactly. We vary the universality of a leak, or the fraction of prompts that accept the same wrong response, and the verifier's static false-positive rate. At its KL-regularized optimum, RLVR acts as a filter that reweights the accepted set without altering its composition, so the hack rate is inherited exactly. Taking that as a null model, a known decomposition writes the drift from it as a sum over prompts of covariances between reward and the empirical tangent kernel. The terms from other prompts vanish without parameter sharing. With sharing, every prompt that accepts a wrong answer pushes it up and every prompt that rejects it pushes it down through the baseline, in proportion to the model's probability of producing it there. A shared-parameter policy thus drives a leak that few prompts accept below the base rate and amplifies one that most prompts accept. At every convergent learning rate under Adam, SGD, and sampled GRPO, hacking ends higher at high universality than at low, but whether either end crosses the base rate depends on the step size. Independent per-prompt copies remove the dependence. The direction of this push depends on neither the verifier's error rate nor universality alone, but on how much of the model's kernel-weighted probability of a wrong answer falls on prompts that accept it, which frozen base model controls support. Verifier fixes should target the mistakes the model repeats across prompts: two patches that remove equally many errors differ by up to 38 points of true accuracy. We propose this alignment as a hypothesis for why earlier studies disagree.
| Comments: | Accepted at the Transitioning from Pre-Training to Post-Training Workshop at NeurIPS 2026 |
| Subjects: | Machine Learning (cs.LG); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) |
| Cite as: | arXiv:2611.13218 [cs.LG] |
| (or arXiv:2611.13218v1 [cs.LG] for this version) | |
| https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2611.13218 arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) |
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From: Michael Li [view email]
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来源：arXiv cs.AI · arxiv.org