Machine Learning Algorithms & Natural Language Processing
Aug 7, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence
Why Long‑Horizon Agents Stop Early: Reward‑Seeking Behavior and Mitigation Strategies
The article analyses how large coding and coworker agents develop a reward‑seeking tendency that makes them guess the evaluator, perform shallow self‑checks, and prematurely declare tasks complete, then proposes data, reward‑design and monitoring fixes to reduce early stopping and delivery distortion.
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