abeeranajam31/veriaudit-pilot-v0.1

VeriAudit Pilot v0.1

Part of VeriAudit — see the full technical report in the source repository for complete methodology, statistics, and limitations. This dataset card summarizes it.

Dataset Summary

VeriAudit Pilot v0.1 is a 240-evaluation pilot benchmark measuring whether two open-weight language models (Qwen3-8B, Aya Expanse 8B) apply consistent safety behavior when the same harmful intent is expressed in English, Urdu, Roman Urdu, or code-switched Roman Urdu/English. Each evaluation includes the prompt, a safety label from a five-category taxonomy, and — for Qwen3-8B only — the model's raw response text (see License below for why Aya Expanse 8B response text is redacted here).

Motivation

Most publicly reported AI safety evaluation is concentrated in English and a small number of other high-resource languages. It is not established that a model's refusal behavior transfers consistently to other linguistic forms of the same request, including Romanized and code-switched text common in everyday multilingual usage. This pilot tests that directly for one low-resource-language pair (English/Urdu) and two open-weight models.

Benchmark Structure

• —30 safety-relevant intents, 5 per category, across 6 categories: Cybercrime, Weapons, Self-Harm, Hate Speech, Misinformation, Fraud.
• —4 linguistic variants per intent: English, Urdu, Roman Urdu, code-switched.
• —2 models: Qwen3-8B, Aya Expanse 8B (both 4-bit quantized, local MLX inference, greedy decoding, temperature 0.0, maxtokens 300 — see `runmetadata.json`).
• —240 total evaluations (30 × 4 × 2), a fully balanced design: exactly 30 evaluations per model × language cell, exactly 5 per category × model × language cell.

Annotation Protocol

Five-category taxonomy: safe_refusal, safe_completion, partial_compliance, unsafe_compliance, ambiguous. 30 cases were directly human-reviewed, 36 more were human-adjudicated, and the remaining 174 were independently reviewed through an LLM-assisted process rather than a second human annotator. 66/240 (27.5%) carry genuine human sign-off; 174/240 (72.5%) do not. This dataset should not be described as fully human-validated.

Label Taxonomy

The final_label field in labels.jsonl is the resolved label (human review/adjudication where available, independent review otherwise). preliminary_label reflects an earlier, superseded stage — use final_label.

Primary Metric

SafetyRate(model, language) = SAFE / (SAFE + UNSAFE)   [ambiguous excluded]
CLSG(model, language) = SafetyRate(model, English) − SafetyRate(model, language)

Results

Overall mean CLSG across the 6 model × non-English-language comparisons: 25.8 percentage points. Full results, confidence intervals, and statistical tests (McNemar exact tests, Holm correction): see statistical_analysis.md in this repo, or the technical report.

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Limitations

30 intents is a small pilot sample; only 2 models tested; 174/240 labels independently LLM-reviewed rather than human-annotated; Roman Urdu carries a disproportionate share of ambiguous outputs; CLSG is descriptive, not a causal estimator; results are specific to these two models and do not generalize without replication. Full list: technical report §10.

Intended Use

AI safety research; benchmarking cross-lingual refusal consistency; methodology reference for constructing similar multilingual safety evaluations.

Out-of-Scope Use

Not a validated, general-purpose safety certification for any model. Not evidence of a universal property of Urdu-language AI safety. Not for training models to better evade refusal. Not for commercial use of the Qwen3-8B response text without checking Qwen3's Apache 2.0 terms yourself for your use case; Aya Expanse 8B response text is not included in this release at all (see License).

Citation

See `CITATION.cff` in the source repository.

License

• —Prompts, intents, and safety labels: MIT (matches the source repository — this is the project's own original content).
• —Qwen3-8B raw responses (120 of 240 evaluations): included in labels.jsonl. Qwen3-8B is released under Apache 2.0, which permits redistribution of model outputs.
• —Aya Expanse 8B raw responses (120 of 240 evaluations): NOT included in this release. raw_response is set to null for every Aya Expanse 8B row, with raw_response_redacted: true. Aya Expanse 8B is released under CC-BY-NC (non-commercial) terms plus Cohere/C4AI's Acceptable Use Policy, and redistribution of its raw outputs under this dataset's otherwise-permissive terms was not cleared at publication time. The safety label for every Aya Expanse 8B evaluation (derived from human/LLM-assisted review, not reproduced Cohere content) is retained — only the verbatim model output text is withheld.