arXiv AI

Conditional Reliability of Toxicity Signals for Multilingual and Code-Mixed Abuse Detection

arXiv:2607. 15861v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Moderation systems increasingly rely on external toxicity tools, but those tools are unreliable under code-mixing, transliteration, slang, and language mismatch.

arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 22

Multilingual Safety Signals Are Multi-Layered: Filtering Safety-Degrading Data for Safer LLMs

The paper introduces MMSAFE, a multi-layer framework designed to identify safety-degrading data in multilingual large language models. It shows that safety signals are distributed across multiple layers and only partially shared across languages, unlike the single-layer assumption used in monolingual settings. Experiments demonstrate that MMSAFE reduces harmful-response rates by 60% compared to random filtering and outperforms the best single-layer baseline across various models, languages, and safety benchmarks.

By Jiakun Li, Guowei Song, Sijia Li, Xingwei He, Hongzheng Chai, Yuan Yuan
arXiv AI
Aug 25

Register Shifts Break LLM Safety: A Bengali Benchmark with Culturally Grounded Harms

The paper introduces BanglaSafe, a benchmark of 879 Bengali prompts that covers 17 culturally grounded harm categories and five prompting conditions. Evaluation of 18 frontier LLMs shows that 53.6% of responses are unsafe or partially unsafe, with 14.7% containing strictly harmful content. The study finds that the writing style within Bengali has a stronger impact on safety than the language switch itself, and that current safety classifiers struggle to reliably evaluate Bengali content.

By Naymul Islam, Nusrat Jahan Lia, Shubhashis Roy Dipta, Sabik Bin Sultan, Abdullah Khan Zehady
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Sep 3

IndicSafeEval: Safety Robustness of Large Language Models under Multilingual Persuasive Jailbreak Attacks

IndicSafeEval is a new evaluation framework that tests the safety robustness of large language models against persuasion-based jailbreak attacks in Indian languages. The benchmark covers ten safety-critical content categories, six persuasive strategies, and four languages—Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, and Punjabi—producing 7,200 adversarial prompts. Experiments show that model safety varies significantly across languages, prompt styles, and risk categories, highlighting gaps in current English-centric safety assessments.

arXiv AI
Sep 4

IndicSafeEval: Safety Robustness of Large Language Models under Multilingual Persuasive Jailbreak Attacks

IndicSafeEval is a new evaluation framework that tests the safety robustness of large language models against persuasion-based jailbreak attacks in Indian languages. The benchmark includes 7,200 adversarial prompts covering ten safety-critical content categories, six persuasive strategies, and four languages (Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Punjabi). Experiments show that model safety varies significantly across languages, prompt styles, and risk categories, revealing that current English-centric safety evaluations miss important multilingual vulnerabilities.

By Saikat Mondal, Mamta, Deeksha Varshney, Oana Cocarascu, Asif Ekbal
arXiv Computation and Language
4d ago

KSAFE-MM: A Multimodal Safety Benchmark via Localized Contextualization for Korean Cultural Risks

arXiv:2605.28013v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) exacerbate safety risks by introducing vulnerabilities across multiple modalities, such as language and vi...

By Yongwoo Kim, Sojung An, Yunjin Park, Jungwon Yoon, Dujin Lee, HyunBeom Cho, Jaewon Lee, Wonhyuk Lee, Youngchol Kim, JeongYeop Kim, Donghyun Kim