#machine learning
Mar 2026
Likelihood hacking in probabilistic program synthesis
This work formalises LH in a core probabilistic programming language (PPL) and gives sufficient syntactic conditions for its prevention, proving that a safe language fragment satisfying these conditions cannot produce likelihood-hacking programs.
Jacek Karwowski, Y. Kaddar, Zihuiwen Ye et al.
· arXiv.org · 2 citations