Step 5 Preview tops HoneyBench among Chinese models with lowest 64.9% reward-hacking rate

teortaxesTex · x · 2026-11-12

Step 5 Preview is claimed SOTA among tested Chinese models on HoneyBench v0.2, with the lowest reward-hacking rate at 64.9%. teortaxesTex argues the model isn't SOTA on other evals due to insufficient RL, expects Step5-non-preview to be strong, and stresses everyone needs better anti-reward-hacking discipline.

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