LionGuard: Building a Contextualized Moderation Classifier to Tackle Localized Unsafe Content
<|reference_start|>LionGuard: Building a Contextualized Moderation Classifier to Tackle Localized Unsafe Content: As large language models (LLMs) become increasingly prevalent in a wide variety of applications, concerns about the safety of their outputs have become more significant. Most efforts at safety-tuning or moderation today take on a predominantly Western-centric view of safety, especially for toxic, hateful, or violent speech. In this paper, we describe LionGuard, a Singapore-contextualized moderation classifier that can serve as guardrails against unsafe LLM outputs. When assessed on Singlish data, LionGuard outperforms existing widely-used moderation APIs, which are not finetuned for the Singapore context, by 14% (binary) and up to 51% (multi-label). Our work highlights the benefits of localization for moderation classifiers and presents a practical and scalable approach for low-resource languages.<|reference_end|>
@article{foo2024lionguard:,
    title={LionGuard: Building a Contextualized Moderation Classifier to Tackle
  Localized Unsafe Content},
    author={Jessica Foo and Shaun Khoo},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.10995},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2407.10995},
    primaryClass={cs.CL cs.AI}
}