AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · Mar 95/10
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Revisiting the (Sub)Optimality of Best-of-N for Inference-Time Alignment
Researchers revisited Best-of-N (BoN) sampling for AI alignment and found it's actually optimal when evaluated using win-rate metrics rather than expected true reward. They propose a variant that eliminates reward-hacking vulnerabilities while maintaining optimal performance.