构建可验证的测试环境,自动检测语言模型的奖励漏洞行为
Hack-Verifiable Environments: Towards Evaluating Reward Hacking at Scale

- 在环境中嵌入可检测的奖励漏洞,实现自动化验证
- 在多个语言模型上实测,发现普遍存在的奖励滥用现象
- 适合安全评估与对齐研究者使用
将自主智能体与人类意图对齐仍是现代人工智能的核心挑战。其中典型表现是奖励黑客行为:智能体在评估信号下表现良好,却违背了预期目标。此类现象广泛存在,但缺乏可靠的大规模测量方法。本文提出一种新型评估范式,不再依赖事后分析轨迹,而是直接在环境中嵌入可被检测的奖励漏洞,使漏洞利用行为可验证、可量化。我们基于此构建了《TextArena》的可验证版本——Hack-Verifiable TextArena,支持确定性、自动化的奖励黑客检测。通过该基准,我们在多种语言模型和场景中系统分析了奖励黑客行为。代码已开源(https://github.com/MajoRoth/hack-verifiable-environments/)。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Aligning autonomous agents with human intent remains a central challenge in modern AI. A key manifestation of this challenge is reward hacking, whereby agents appear successful under the evaluation signal while violating the intended objective. Reward hacking has been observed across a wide range of settings, yet methods for reliably measuring it at scale remain lacking. In this work, we introduce a new evaluation paradigm for measuring reward hacking. Whereas prior studies have primarily analyzed it post hoc by inspecting agent trajectories, we instead embed detectable reward hacking opportunities directly into environments. This makes their exploitation verifiable by design, enabling deterministic and automated measurement of whether and how agents exploit such vulnerabilities. We instantiate this approach in $\textit{TextArena}$ and release $\textit{Hack-Verifiable TextArena}$, a testbed in which reward hacking can be measured reliably. Using this benchmark, we analyze reward hacking behavior across language models in diverse environments and settings. We open source the code at https://github.com/MajoRoth/hack-verifiable-environments/.
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