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YuFeng-XGuard: A Reasoning-Centric, Interpretable, and Flexible Guardrail Model for Large Language Models — Lin et al. (2026) (arXiv:2601.15588, 2026)
What this evaluates
Evaluates the safety classification capabilities of guardrail models across multiple dimensions, including prompt/response safety detection, multilingual robustness, adversarial jailbreak resilience, and safe content completion. It also tests the model's ability to dynamically adapt to new moderation policies without retraining.
Datasets
- Aegis / Aegis2.0 — total ?; splits: test (-1)
- WildGuard — total ?; splits: test (-1)
- StrongReject — total ?; splits: test (-1)
- SEval2.0 — total ?; splits: test (-1)
- E-commerce Benchmark — total ?; splits: test (-1)
- Adaptive Policy Scope Benchmark — total ?; splits: test (-1)
Metrics
F1 score(primary) — range: percent- Harmonic mean of precision and recall: F1 = 2 * (Precision * Recall) / (Precision + Recall). Reported as a percentage across benchmarks.
Input / output format
Input: User prompts and/or model-generated responses.
Output: Binary safety classification label (safe/unsafe), risk category, confidence score, and natural-language explanation.
Scoring recipe
def compute_f1(predictions, gold):
tp = sum(1 for p, g in zip(predictions, gold) if p == 1 and g == 1)
fp = sum(1 for p, g in zip(predictions, gold) if p == 1 and g == 0)
fn = sum(1 for p, g in zip(predictions, gold) if p == 0 and g == 1)
precision = tp / (tp + fp) if (tp + fp) > 0 else 0.0
recall = tp / (tp + fn) if (tp + fn) > 0 else 0.0
f1 = 2 * precision * recall / (precision + recall) if (precision + recall) > 0 else 0.0
return f1 * 100
Common pitfalls
- Using a uniform confidence threshold (0.5 for prompts, 0.8 for responses) without tuning can significantly skew F1 scores across different benchmarks.
- Safe completion benchmarks like SEval2.0 are highly sensitive to 'over-blocking', where benign content is incorrectly flagged, drastically lowering F1 if not carefully calibrated.
- Multilingual performance averages can mask severe drops in specific low-resource or typologically distant languages.
Evidence (verbatim from paper)
To assess foundational safety detection, we evaluated models on a wide range of generic benchmarks. As shown in Table [2], YuFeng-XGuard-8B achieves the highest average F1 score on prompt classification.
Citation
@misc{lin2026yufengxguard,
title={YuFeng-XGuard: A Reasoning-Centric, Interpretable, and Flexible Guardrail Model for Large Language Models},
author={Lin et al. (2026)},
year={2026},
note={arXiv:2601.15588}
}
- arXiv: 2601.15588