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Causal Reward Adjustment: Mitigating Reward Hacking in External Reasoning via Backdoor Correction

As of 8 August 2026, this Paper Citation Record lists 43 of 43 outbound references and 2 inbound Pith citation observations for arXiv:2508.04216.

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Causal Reward Adjustment: Mitigating Reward Hacking in External Reasoning via Backdoor Correction write newline

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This paper cites Concrete Problems in AI Safety.

Causal Reward Adjustment: Mitigating Reward Hacking in External Reasoning via Backdoor Correction Concrete Problems in AI Safety

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This paper cites E.; Hume, T.; Carter, S.; Henighan, T.; and Olah, C.

Causal Reward Adjustment: Mitigating Reward Hacking in External Reasoning via Backdoor Correction E.; Hume, T.; Carter, S.; Henighan, T.; and Olah, C

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This paper cites Large Language Monkeys: Scaling Inference Compute with Repeated Sampling.

Causal Reward Adjustment: Mitigating Reward Hacking in External Reasoning via Backdoor Correction Large Language Monkeys: Scaling Inference Compute with Repeated Sampling

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This paper cites Training Verifiers to Solve Math Word Problems.

Causal Reward Adjustment: Mitigating Reward Hacking in External Reasoning via Backdoor Correction Training Verifiers to Solve Math Word Problems

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This paper cites Sparse Autoencoders Find Highly Interpretable Features in Language Models.

Causal Reward Adjustment: Mitigating Reward Hacking in External Reasoning via Backdoor Correction Sparse Autoencoders Find Highly Interpretable Features in Language Models

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This paper cites DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning.

Causal Reward Adjustment: Mitigating Reward Hacking in External Reasoning via Backdoor Correction DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning

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This paper cites The Llama 3 Herd of Models.

Causal Reward Adjustment: Mitigating Reward Hacking in External Reasoning via Backdoor Correction The Llama 3 Herd of Models

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This paper cites Inverse Reward Design.

Causal Reward Adjustment: Mitigating Reward Hacking in External Reasoning via Backdoor Correction Inverse Reward Design

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This paper cites Let's Verify Step by Step.

Causal Reward Adjustment: Mitigating Reward Hacking in External Reasoning via Backdoor Correction Let's Verify Step by Step

Reference 14

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This paper cites Can 1B LLM Surpass 405B LLM? Rethinking Compute-Optimal Test-Time Scaling.

Causal Reward Adjustment: Mitigating Reward Hacking in External Reasoning via Backdoor Correction Can 1B LLM Surpass 405B LLM? Rethinking Compute-Optimal Test-Time Scaling

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This paper cites RRM: Robust Reward Model Training Mitigates Reward Hacking.

Causal Reward Adjustment: Mitigating Reward Hacking in External Reasoning via Backdoor Correction RRM: Robust Reward Model Training Mitigates Reward Hacking

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Causal Reward Adjustment: Mitigating Reward Hacking in External Reasoning via Backdoor Correction P.; Hermann, K.; Welleck, S.; Yazdanbakhsh, A.; and Clark, P

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This paper cites Towards Principled Evaluations of Sparse Autoencoders for Interpretability and Control.

Causal Reward Adjustment: Mitigating Reward Hacking in External Reasoning via Backdoor Correction Towards Principled Evaluations of Sparse Autoencoders for Interpretability and Control

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Causal Reward Adjustment: Mitigating Reward Hacking in External Reasoning via Backdoor Correction Feedback Loops With Language Models Drive In-Context Reward Hacking

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Causal Reward Adjustment: Mitigating Reward Hacking in External Reasoning via Backdoor Correction Self-critiquing models for assisting human evaluators

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Causal Reward Adjustment: Mitigating Reward Hacking in External Reasoning via Backdoor Correction DeepSeekMath: Pushing the Limits of Mathematical Reasoning in Open Language Models

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Causal Reward Adjustment: Mitigating Reward Hacking in External Reasoning via Backdoor Correction Scaling LLM Test-Time Compute Optimally can be More Effective than Scaling Model Parameters

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Causal Reward Adjustment: Mitigating Reward Hacking in External Reasoning via Backdoor Correction V.; Lee, J.; Xu, K.; and Kumar, A

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Causal Reward Adjustment: Mitigating Reward Hacking in External Reasoning via Backdoor Correction L.; McDougall, C.; MacDiarmid, M.; Freeman, C

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Causal Reward Adjustment: Mitigating Reward Hacking in External Reasoning via Backdoor Correction Solving math word problems with process- and outcome-based feedback

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Causal Reward Adjustment: Mitigating Reward Hacking in External Reasoning via Backdoor Correction Math-Shepherd: Verify and Reinforce LLMs Step-by-step without Human Annotations

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Causal Reward Adjustment: Mitigating Reward Hacking in External Reasoning via Backdoor Correction V.; and Zhou, D

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Causal Reward Adjustment: Mitigating Reward Hacking in External Reasoning via Backdoor Correction Qwen2.5-Math Technical Report: Toward Mathematical Expert Model via Self-Improvement

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Causal Reward Adjustment: Mitigating Reward Hacking in External Reasoning via Backdoor Correction L.; Cao, Y.; and Narasimhan, K

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Causal Reward Adjustment: Mitigating Reward Hacking in External Reasoning via Backdoor Correction Automatic Chain of Thought Prompting in Large Language Models

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Causal Reward Adjustment: Mitigating Reward Hacking in External Reasoning via Backdoor Correction The Lessons of Developing Process Reward Models in Mathematical Reasoning

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Causal Reward Adjustment: Mitigating Reward Hacking in External Reasoning via Backdoor Correction A Survey of Large Language Models

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Factored Causal Representation Learning for Robust Reward Modeling in RLHF cites this paper.

Factored Causal Representation Learning for Robust Reward Modeling in RLHF Causal Reward Adjustment: Mitigating Reward Hacking in External Reasoning via Backdoor Correction

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Reward Bias Substitution: Single-Axis Bias Mitigations Redirect Optimization Pressure cites this paper.

Reward Bias Substitution: Single-Axis Bias Mitigations Redirect Optimization Pressure Causal Reward Adjustment: Mitigating Reward Hacking in External Reasoning via Backdoor Correction

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