New paper: simple difference-of-means vectors detect reward hacking from LLM internals before it happens
burny_tech · x · 2026-09-21
A new arXiv paper shows simple difference-of-means vectors can cheaply detect reward hacking from an LLM's internal representations and even predict hacks before they occur — cutting monitoring compute for eval pipelines and long-horizon agents.
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