'Model Unmerging': Reward Hacking Detection as One Layer of a Mitigation Stack
voooooogel · x · 2026-10-20
voooooogel argues that while reward hacking detectors are not foolproof, they can serve as one layer in a mitigation stack, following the 'Swiss cheese model'—jokingly likening this to the dual operation of model merging: 'model unmerging'.
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