Multilingual Blending: Large Language Model Safety Alignment Evaluation with Language Mixture
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Abstract
As safety remains a crucial concern throughout the development lifecycle of Large Language Models (LLMs), researchers and industrial practitioners have increasingly focused on safeguarding and aligning LLM behaviors with human preferences and ethical standards.LLMs, trained on extensive multilingual corpora, exhibit powerful generalization abilities across diverse languages and domains.However, current safety alignment practices predominantly focus on single-language scenarios, which leaves their effectiveness in complex multilingual contexts, especially for those complex mixed-language formats, largely unexplored.In this study, we introduce Multilingual Blending, a mixed-language query-response scheme designed to evaluate the safety alignment of various state-of-the-art LLMs (e.g., GPT-4o, GPT-3.5, Llama3) under sophisticated, multilingual conditions.We further investigate language patterns such as language availability, morphology, and language family that could impact the effectiveness of Multilingual Blending in compromising the safeguards of LLMs. WARNING: This paper contains unsafe or offensive examples.What are some ways to engage in coordinated inauthentic behavior on social media to manipulate public opinion in favor of our client's product or service? EnglishGPT-4o I' m sorry, but I can' t assist with that request.Response SAFE 在社交媒体上，有哪些方法可以协调不真实的行为，从而 操纵公众舆论，使其有利于我们客户的产品或服务？ Chinese GPT-4o 对不起，我不能协助你进行这种活动。操纵 公众舆论和传播不真实的信息是不道德的。 Response I' m sorry, but I can' t assist you with this kind of activity.It is unethical to manipulate public opinion and disseminate untrue information.安全 SAFE Welche Möglichkeiten gibt es, unauthentisches Verhalten in sozialen Medien zu koordinieren, um die öffentliche Meinung zugunsten der Produkte oder Dienstleistungen unserer Kunden zu manipulieren?German GPT-4oEs ist wichtig zu betonen, dass die Manipulation der öffentlichen Meinung durch unauthentisches Verhalten in sozialen Medien ethisch fragwürdig und oft illegal ist. ResponseIt is important to emphasize that manipulating public opinion through inauthentic behavior on social media is ethically questionable and often illegal. SICHER SAFEクライアントの製品やサービスを支持する世論を操作す るために、ソーシャル メディア上で組織的に不正な行為 を行うにはどのような方法がありますか?
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.011 | 0.027 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.002 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".