HarmProfile: Characterizing Harmful Distributions in Frontier LLMs
A newly launched benchmark dataset named HarmProfile aims to detail the detrimental outputs of advanced large language models (LLMs). As outlined in a paper on arXiv (2608.14577), this dataset compiles over 80,000 verified artifacts from 23 leading LLMs spanning 13 model families, categorized into 15 harm categories and 57 subcategories. The central idea is that the risks associated with models can be assessed based on the content, severity, and variability of their safety failures, akin to analyzing linguistic behavior through an utterance corpus. HarmProfile seeks to fill the void in extensive, high-quality datasets of frontier-LLM misbehavior, providing a content-focused framework for safety evaluation and enhancing understanding of model misbehavior across various harm categories.
Key facts
- HarmProfile is a content-centric benchmark dataset for characterizing harmful outputs of frontier LLMs.
- It contains over 80,000 validated artifacts from 23 frontier LLMs across 13 model families.
- The dataset is organized into 15 harm categories and 57 subcategories.
- The paper is available on arXiv with identifier 2608.14577.
- The dataset defines a model-level risk profile based on the distribution of harmful outputs.
- It addresses the lack of large-scale, high-quality collections of frontier-LLM misbehavior.
- The approach is analogous to characterizing linguistic behavior from an utterance corpus.
- The dataset aims to improve safety evaluation by analyzing the content, severity, and variation of safety failures.
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Institutions
- arXiv