What it measures

Foundational safety alignment and safe-RLHF evaluation datasets.

Reading the measurement

Separate satisfying instructions from factual accuracy, human preference and safe behavior. Inspect strict all-constraint success as well as average criterion credit. Judge choice and adversarial prompt selection can materially change the result.

Published evaluation

Human-rated response safety on Do-Not-Answer. The separate BeaverTails training corpus is not assigned this score.

Where this fits in an evaluation suite

Format compliance, preference, truthfulness, and safety require separate measurements. Keep desirable writing style from masking factual errors.

Start with a capability hypothesis, then choose a second test with a different failure mode. Keep the checkpoint, reasoning effort, agent tools, sampling policy, and scoring procedure fixed when measuring a training intervention. Record failures and missing outputs in the denominator.

A reproducible comparison

Human-rated response safety on Do-Not-Answer. The separate BeaverTails training corpus is not assigned this score.

Publish the exact run configuration, item coverage, score units, and available uncertainty. If a source supplies only an aggregate or a single run, preserve that limit. A new model name or a rounded score alone does not establish a capability improvement.

PRIMARY EVIDENCE & FURTHER READING

  1. Do-Not-Answer: Evaluating Safeguards in LLMs ↗

    Yuxia Wang, Haonan Li, Xudong Han, Preslav Nakov, Timothy Baldwin · 2024

Reviewed 2026-10-26. Explanation and interpretation by RLTasks. Benchmark ownership remains with its original authors.