arXiv:2606. 09043v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reward models trained from pairwise preferences often exploit superficial shortcut cues rather than learning true response quality.
By Fengyuan Liu, Yongliang Miao, Zirui He, Yanguang Liu, Fei Sun, Mengnan Du
This paper studies what discriminatively trained reward models (RMs) memorize by measuring counterfactual memorization on two human preference datasets. We show that RMs 1) misallocate memorization to easy, high margin preference pairs, 2) memorize dataset-specific shortcuts (e.
arXiv:2607. 24484v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper studies what discriminatively trained reward models (RMs) memorize by measuring counterfactual memorization on two human preference datasets.
By Ivo Verhoeven, Pushkar Mishra, Ekaterina Shutova
arXiv:2509. 22851v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Margin-based optimization is fundamental to improving generalization and robustness in classification tasks.
By Yaswanth Chittepu, Prasann Singhal, Greg Durrett, Scott Niekum
arXiv:2504.20106v4 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Ensuring that large language models (LLMs) are both helpful and harmless is a critical challenge, as overly strict constraints can lead to excessiv...
By Ren-Wei Liang, Chin-Ting Hsu, Chan-Hung Yu, Saransh Agrawal, Shih-Cheng Huang, Chieh-Yen Lin, Shang-Tse Chen, Kuan-Hao Huang, Shao-Hua Sun
arXiv:2605.16339v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Preference learning in large language models relies on reward models as proxies for human judgment. However, these models frequently exhibit prefer...
By Shunchang Liu, Xin Chen, Belen Martin Urcelay, Francesco Croce