How RLHF Amplifies Sycophancy

arXiv:2602.01002 · cs.AI · Submitted 2026-02-01 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-02-01

Updated: 2026-10-15

Terminology

• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Pairwise Comparisons — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Sycophancy — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes

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