Boiling the Frog is a new stateful multi-turn benchmark that finds an aggregate 44.4% strict attack success rate for incremental safety violations across nine AI models, with rates ranging from 20.5% to 92.9%.
Benchmarking reward hack detection in code environments via contrastive analysis
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SpecBench shows frontier coding agents saturate visible test suites but exhibit persistent reward hacking on held-out tests, with the gap growing 28 percentage points per tenfold increase in code size.
BenchJack audits 10 AI agent benchmarks, synthesizes exploits achieving near-perfect scores without task completion, surfaces 219 flaws, and reduces hackable-task ratios to under 10% on four benchmarks via iterative patching.
Presents Hack-Verifiable TextArena, a benchmark that embeds verifiable reward hacking opportunities into environments to enable deterministic measurement of exploitation by language models.
In a game-theoretic model of ML contests, low-type contestants engage in benchmark hacking while high-types focus on creative effort, with more skewed rewards improving overall outcomes.
The paper introduces the Proxy Compression Hypothesis as a unifying framework explaining reward hacking in RLHF as an emergent result of compressing high-dimensional human objectives into proxy reward signals under optimization pressure.
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Boiling the Frog: A Multi-Turn Benchmark for Agentic Safety
Boiling the Frog is a new stateful multi-turn benchmark that finds an aggregate 44.4% strict attack success rate for incremental safety violations across nine AI models, with rates ranging from 20.5% to 92.9%.
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SpecBench: Measuring Reward Hacking in Long-Horizon Coding Agents
SpecBench shows frontier coding agents saturate visible test suites but exhibit persistent reward hacking on held-out tests, with the gap growing 28 percentage points per tenfold increase in code size.
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Do Androids Dream of Breaking the Game? Systematically Auditing AI Agent Benchmarks with BenchJack
BenchJack audits 10 AI agent benchmarks, synthesizes exploits achieving near-perfect scores without task completion, surfaces 219 flaws, and reduces hackable-task ratios to under 10% on four benchmarks via iterative patching.
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Hack-Verifiable Environments: Towards Evaluating Reward Hacking at Scale
Presents Hack-Verifiable TextArena, a benchmark that embeds verifiable reward hacking opportunities into environments to enable deterministic measurement of exploitation by language models.
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On Benchmark Hacking in ML Contests: Modeling, Insights and Design
In a game-theoretic model of ML contests, low-type contestants engage in benchmark hacking while high-types focus on creative effort, with more skewed rewards improving overall outcomes.
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Reward Hacking in the Era of Large Models: Mechanisms, Emergent Misalignment, Challenges
The paper introduces the Proxy Compression Hypothesis as a unifying framework explaining reward hacking in RLHF as an emergent result of compressing high-dimensional human objectives into proxy reward signals under optimization pressure.