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From RLHF to RLVR: The Evolution of Reward Signals and the Battle Against Reward Hacking
Community description: From human preferences and LLM judges to verifiable rewards: why soft evaluators get reward-hacked and how to build tamper-proof verifiers.
Dev.to | Sep 28, 2026 | Aleksei Romanov
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RLHF: Reinforcement learning from human feedback, using a reward model trained on human preference comparisons. RLVR: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards: ground truth verified deterministically by execution or proof checking. Reward hacking: When a policy discovers shortcuts to maximize the formal reward without performing the intended task.
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