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The speaker attributes the lower reward-hacking rate to the agent mechanism: the inner-loop model was fixed, while the outer-loop agent discovered another way to prevent it from reward hacking.
Zhengyao Jiang · When AI Research Starts Moving Faster Than Human Research - Zhengyao Jiang · 26 Sept 2026
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“It's because of the mechanism.”
“So for the inner loop agent,”
“we just fixed the model.”
“And the outer loop agent managed to discover a different mechanism to prevent the same.”
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