PolyGuard: A Multilingual Safety Moderation Tool for 17 Languages

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Main Authors:	Kumar, Priyanshu, Jain, Devansh, Yerukola, Akhila, Jiang, Liwei, Beniwal, Himanshu, Hartvigsen, Thomas, Sap, Maarten
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2025
Subjects:	Computation and Language
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