docs: add RLHF reward hacking evaluation lesson - #157
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Hi maintainers, I opened this as a lightweight prompt-evaluations lesson focused on RLHF reward-hacking failure modes, including sycophancy, unsafe helpfulness, overconfidence, and unsupported confidence. Happy to revise the wording, placement, or scope if you prefer a different structure for the course materials. |
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Summary
This PR adds a lightweight RLHF reward-hacking evaluation lesson to the prompt evaluations materials.
Why
Preference optimization can improve model behavior, but it can also create failure modes where models optimize for surface-level reward signals rather than the underlying objective. This lesson introduces evaluation patterns for sycophancy, unsafe helpfulness, overconfidence, and unsupported confidence.
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