Structured Escalation Cuts Agent Reward Hacking to 5.3%
omarsar0 · x · 2026-09-01
A new paper proposes a structured escalation tool for coding agents facing defective test infrastructure. This approach reduced reward hacking from 23.6% to 5.3% across 8 frontier models with no performance overhead.
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