VCap pairs reference captions as witnesses with visual signals as adjudicators to deliver hypergeometric-precision rewards for RL in visual captioning, enabling an 8B model to outperform SOTA on benchmarks and improve weak-to-strong generalization.
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The paper introduces the Proxy Compression Hypothesis as a unifying framework explaining reward hacking in RLHF as an emergent result of compressing high-dimensional human objectives into proxy reward signals under optimization pressure.
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VCap: Hypergeometric Rewards for Weak-to-Strong Visual Captioning
VCap pairs reference captions as witnesses with visual signals as adjudicators to deliver hypergeometric-precision rewards for RL in visual captioning, enabling an 8B model to outperform SOTA on benchmarks and improve weak-to-strong generalization.
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Reward Hacking in the Era of Large Models: Mechanisms, Emergent Misalignment, Challenges
The paper introduces the Proxy Compression Hypothesis as a unifying framework explaining reward hacking in RLHF as an emergent result of compressing high-dimensional human objectives into proxy reward signals under optimization pressure.