This report synthesises findings from 14 peer-reviewed papers addressing the following research question: Does Q-shaping maintain robustness in multimodal environments (e.g., VLMBench) when scaling to diverse tasks, and how does it compare to reward shaping in terms of accuracy-score trade-offs. Artificial intelligence (AI) researchers have been developing and refining large language models (LLMs) that exhibit remarkable capabilities across a variety of domains and tasks, challenging our understanding of learning and cognition. The latest model developed by OpenAI. 7 claims were extracted from source literature; 7 were independently verified against retrieved documents. An automated multi-reviewer quality assessment produced a score of 8.7/10. This report is a machine-generated literature synthesis and does not constitute original research.Research goal: Does Q-shaping maintain robustness in multimodal environments (e.g., VLMBench) when scaling to diverse tasks, and how does it compare to reward shaping in terms of accuracy-score trade-offs?Autonomous literature synthesis. Automated review score: 8.7/10. Full text and citation available at Assignee Research.