When RLHF Fails: A Mechanistic Taxonomy of Reward Hacking, Collapse, and Evaluator Gaming

The study presents a mechanistic taxonomy and diagnostic pipeline to track how failures like reward hacking and policy collapse emerge during reinforcement learning from human feedback.

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