From Curiosity to Caution: Mitigating Reward Hacking for Best-of-N with Pessimism explores A new method to prevent language models from exploiting reward model flaws when generating multiple responses, improving reliability and performance.. Commercial viability score: 7/10 in LLM Safety & Alignment.
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Subject: From Curiosity to Caution: Mitigating Reward Hacking for Best-of-N with Pessimism
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from-curiosity-to-caution-mitigating-reward-hacking-for-best-of-n-with-pessimism
arXiv id
2604.04648
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2026-04-07T20:12:08.438Z
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