arXiv Machine Learning

TRIDENT: Benchmarking LLM Safety in Finance, Medicine, and Law

arXiv:2507. 21134v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: As large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in high-risk domains such as law, finance, and medicine, systematically evaluating their domain-specific safety and compliance becomes critical.

arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 22

SafeTune: A Unified Faithful Library for Auditing and Repairing Safety Drift in Fine-Tuned LLMs

SafeTune is a source‑available library that consolidates four safety‑intervention paradigms—post‑hoc weight recovery, safety‑constrained fine‑tuning, gradient‑based unlearning, and inference‑time steering—into a single, configuration‑driven workflow. It offers shared interpretability, evaluation, and deployment tools, and its modular registry allows easy addition of new methods, benchmarks, judges, models, and fine‑tuning domains. The authors demonstrate SafeTune with controlled comparisons and case studies in finance and medical deployments, showing how it characterizes safety drift, evaluates interventions on refusal‑behavior and capability metrics, and supports calibrated or layered mitigation.

By Pratinav Seth, Saisab Sadhu, Anshul Kaushal, Vinay Kumar Sankarapu
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 18

SAFARI: An Industrial Benchmark for LLM-Assisted Hazard Analysis and Risk Assessment

SAFARI is the first industrial benchmark for evaluating large language models (LLMs) in automotive hazard analysis and risk assessment (HARA) under ISO 26262. It comprises 3,000 de‑identified HARA cases and tests two tasks: open‑ended hazard generation and standards‑grounded risk classification, using a novel reference‑anchored LLM‑as‑a‑judge protocol. Experiments with nine state‑of‑the‑art LLMs show that while hazard narratives are often plausible, risk classification remains weak (best ASIL macro‑F1 = 0.261), with errors mainly due to missing scenario context and misjudged controllability. "whyItMatters":"The benchmark highlights the current limitations of LLMs in safety‑critical engineering workflows, guiding future research and expert oversight in automotive safety analysis."

By Chenxi Wu, Zimu Wang, Haiyang Zhang, Wei Wang, Zhijie Xu
arXiv AI
Jul 22

MEDIC: Comprehensive Evaluation of Leading Indicators for LLM Safety and Utility in Clinical Applications

arXiv:2409. 07314v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: While Large Language Models (LLMs) achieve superhuman performance on standardized medical licensing exams, these static benchmarks have become saturated and increasingly disconnected from the functional requirements of clinical workflows.

By Praveenkumar Kanithi, Cl\'ement Christophe, Marco AF Pimentel, Tathagata Raha, Prateek Munjal, Nada Saadi, Hamza A Javed, Svetlana Maslenkova, Nasir Hayat, Ronnie Rajan, Shadab Khan