Risky behaviorarXiv 2610.12822
Reward hacking as a transmissible strategy in multi-agent coding systems
Show that reward hacking can propagate through code, memory, and plans in multi-agent coding systems
- arXiv
- 2610.12822
- Published
- Layer
- Application layer
- Setting
- Multi-agent systems, coding agent
- Evaluated models
- Qwen2.5-Coder-14B, Gemma-3-12B, Qwen2.5-Coder-7B and others16
- RiskReward hacking
- ComponentMemory
AbstractThe authors state that reward hacking can spread across models and affect routing and aggregation, and that review can reduce delivery.
Reward hacking induced by coding RL can leave the source agent and enter subsequent collaboration and system coordination.