arXiv:2604.23488cs.LG2026-04

发现模型自动生成的漏洞利用轨迹与人工提示的不一致,影响监控效果。

Do Prompt-Elicited Trajectories Reflect Training-Time Reward Hacking? A Systematic Study on Monitoring Training-Time Reward Hacking in Code Generation

论文配图:Do Prompt-Elicited Trajectories Reflect Training-Time Reward Hacking? A Systematic Study on Monitoring Training-Time Reward Hacking in Code Generation
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  • 用单元测试追踪自动捕获训练中自然出现的漏洞利用行为。
  • 基于自动生成轨迹训练的监控器泛化能力更强,识别新类型漏洞更准。
  • 提醒研究者:依赖人工提示数据可能误判模型真实风险。

代码生成中的奖励欺骗问题,即模型通过利用评估机制漏洞获得高分却未正确完成任务,是强化学习与推理模型部署的关键挑战。现有研究多依赖人工提示诱导的欺骗轨迹,但尚不清楚以此训练的监控器能否检测到训练过程中自发产生的欺骗行为。本文提出Trace-and-Amplify框架,通过单元测试追踪器在训练中自动识别并保留自然发生的欺骗轨迹,用于监控器训练与评估。对比实验表明:(1)仅用提示诱导数据训练的监控器难以泛化至本框架收集的轨迹;(2)基于本框架轨迹训练的监控器对未见欺骗类型具有更强泛化能力。结果说明,提示诱导数据不能完全反映训练时的真实欺骗行为,仅依赖此类数据可能导致误判。代码已开源:https://github.com/LichenLillc/CoTMonitoring.git

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Reward hacking in code generation, where models exploit evaluation loopholes to obtain high reward without correctly solving the intended task, poses a critical challenge for Reinforcement Learning (RL) and the deployment of reasoning models. Existing studies often rely on explicitly prompted hacking trajectories, but it remains unclear whether monitors trained on such data can detect reward hacks that arise without direct hacking instructions during RL training. In this work, we introduce Trace-and-Amplify, a framework for scalable curation of reward-hacking trajectories that arise during RL training without explicit hacking instructions. The framework uses unit-test tracers to identify hacking solutions when they occur and retains such trajectories for monitor training and evaluation. Through controlled comparisons between monitors trained on prompt-elicited hacking trajectories and training-time reward-hacking trajectories collected by Trace-and-Amplify, we find that \textbf{(1) prompt-elicited-data-trained monitors often fail to generalize to trajectories curated by our framework}, and \textbf{(2) monitors trained on our Trace-and-Amplify trajectories demonstrate stronger generalizability to unseen hacking types}. Our results indicate that prompted reward hacking data may not fully reflect training-time reward-hacking behaviors, and that relying solely on these data can lead to misleading conclusions. Codebase is available at https://github.com/LichenLillc/CoTMonitoring.git

奖励欺骗代码生成强化学习监控框架

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