Detecting and Suppressing Reward Hacking with Gradient Fingerprints
Read the original on arXiv Computation and Language →The paper introduces Gradient Fingerprint (GRIFT), a technique that uses a model’s internal gradient computations to detect reward hacking in reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards. GRIFT compresses gradients of a chain-of-thought (CoT) conditioned on a prompt into a compact representation, which is then used to assess whether the CoT reflects reward hacking. Experiments on math, code, and logical reasoning benchmarks show GRIFT outperforms baselines by over 25% and, when integrated into a rejection fine‑tuning pipeline, reduces reward hacking while improving task performance.
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