OutSafe-Bench: A Benchmark for Multimodal Offensive Content Detection in Large Language Models

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Main Authors: Yan, Yuping, Xie, Yuhan, Li, Yuanshuai, Yu, Yingchao, Lyu, Lingjuan, Jin, Yaochu
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author Yan, Yuping
Xie, Yuhan
Li, Yuanshuai
Yu, Yingchao
Lyu, Lingjuan
Jin, Yaochu
author_facet Yan, Yuping
Xie, Yuhan
Li, Yuanshuai
Yu, Yingchao
Lyu, Lingjuan
Jin, Yaochu
contents Since Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) are increasingly being integrated into everyday tools and intelligent agents, growing concerns have arisen regarding their possible output of unsafe contents, ranging from toxic language and biased imagery to privacy violations and harmful misinformation. Current safety benchmarks remain highly limited in both modality coverage and performance evaluations, often neglecting the extensive landscape of content safety. In this work, we introduce OutSafe-Bench, the first most comprehensive content safety evaluation test suite designed for the multimodal era. OutSafe-Bench includes a large-scale dataset that spans four modalities, featuring over 18,000 bilingual (Chinese and English) text prompts, 4,500 images, 450 audio clips and 450 videos, all systematically annotated across nine critical content risk categories. In addition to the dataset, we introduce a Multidimensional Cross Risk Score (MCRS), a novel metric designed to model and assess overlapping and correlated content risks across different categories. To ensure fair and robust evaluation, we propose FairScore, an explainable automated multi-reviewer weighted aggregation framework. FairScore selects top-performing models as adaptive juries, thereby mitigating biases from single-model judgments and enhancing overall evaluation reliability. Our evaluation of nine state-of-the-art MLLMs reveals persistent and substantial safety vulnerabilities, underscoring the pressing need for robust safeguards in MLLMs.
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spellingShingle OutSafe-Bench: A Benchmark for Multimodal Offensive Content Detection in Large Language Models
Yan, Yuping
Xie, Yuhan
Li, Yuanshuai
Yu, Yingchao
Lyu, Lingjuan
Jin, Yaochu
Machine Learning
Computation and Language
Since Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) are increasingly being integrated into everyday tools and intelligent agents, growing concerns have arisen regarding their possible output of unsafe contents, ranging from toxic language and biased imagery to privacy violations and harmful misinformation. Current safety benchmarks remain highly limited in both modality coverage and performance evaluations, often neglecting the extensive landscape of content safety. In this work, we introduce OutSafe-Bench, the first most comprehensive content safety evaluation test suite designed for the multimodal era. OutSafe-Bench includes a large-scale dataset that spans four modalities, featuring over 18,000 bilingual (Chinese and English) text prompts, 4,500 images, 450 audio clips and 450 videos, all systematically annotated across nine critical content risk categories. In addition to the dataset, we introduce a Multidimensional Cross Risk Score (MCRS), a novel metric designed to model and assess overlapping and correlated content risks across different categories. To ensure fair and robust evaluation, we propose FairScore, an explainable automated multi-reviewer weighted aggregation framework. FairScore selects top-performing models as adaptive juries, thereby mitigating biases from single-model judgments and enhancing overall evaluation reliability. Our evaluation of nine state-of-the-art MLLMs reveals persistent and substantial safety vulnerabilities, underscoring the pressing need for robust safeguards in MLLMs.
title OutSafe-Bench: A Benchmark for Multimodal Offensive Content Detection in Large Language Models
topic Machine Learning
Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.10287