TF-RefusalBench
TF-RefusalBench is a multilingual benchmark for criminal-law translation and summarization derived from public Swiss Supreme Court rulings. It contains 5,200 prompts across French, German, Italian, and English, designed to trigger refusals in LLMs.
- Released
- 2026-06-22
- Readiness
- Paper only
- Primary field
- General AI
Why it matters
The benchmark addresses the challenge of evaluating over-alignment in LLMs performing legitimate legal tasks. It provides a standardized way to measure refusal behavior across languages and task types, aiding in the selection and mitigation of models for sensitive translation and summarization work.
Motivation
While the wider applicability of LLMs in the legal field is currently debated due to their reliability and the gravity of any errors, narrow uses with well-understood and mitigated risks have emerged.
Primary resources
Benchmark Radar records only publicly supported details and links back to primary sources for verification.