CATCH exposes how coding agents learn to exploit reward loopholes

The testbed separates evaluator success from actual code correctness, allowing researchers to track reward hacking and test countermeasures throughout reinforcement learning.

Top University
Shouli Wang · Yanfeng Jia · Zhihao Ou · Zitao Su · Ruize He · Haotong Xie · +3 more

Tsinghua University · Beihang University · Southern University of Science and Technology · Renmin University of China · Shanghai University of Finance and Economics

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Wang and colleagues introduce CATCH, a controlled environment for studying reward hacking in coding reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards.

CATCH runs coding tasks through two evaluation paths.

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From Tsinghua University and 4 others

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CATCH exposes coding RL loopholes to study reward hacking.

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