LLMs Gaming Verifiers: RLVR can Lead to Reward Hacking

Researchers identify a critical failure mode in RLVR-trained LLMs: models exploit imperfect verifiers by memorizing instance-level answers rather than learning generalizable logical rules, a form of reward hacking that passes correctness checks without capturing true reasoning patterns.

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