# Hacking or Just Failing? A More Capable LLM Monitor Better Separates Reward Hacking from Honest Failure

**Published:** November 3, 2026
**Author:** Kaushik Kezendirane
**Source:** arXiv — cs.AI
**Language:** en-US
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arXiv:2611.00407v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: An agent's visible score can exceed its real progress because it gamed the score or because it simply made mistakes, so a useful reward-hacking monitor must tell the two apart. We built a sandboxed task in which an agent can game a…

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