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ShieldGemma: Generative AI Content Moderation Based on Gemma

Introduces ShieldGemma, a suite of content-moderation models built on Gemma 2 (roughly 2B to 27B parameters) that classify safety risks across four harm types in both user inputs and model outputs. The paper also describes a synthetic data-curation pipeline for building moderation training sets. The authors report improved area-under-PR-curve over Llama Guard and WildGuard on their evaluations.

Publisher

Google

Published

31 Jul 2024

Added

3 months ago

DOI

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Key Findings

  • A family of moderation classifiers at multiple sizes (about 2B-27B) built on Gemma 2, covering four harm types for both inputs and outputs
  • Reports area-under-PR-curve gains of roughly 10.8% over Llama Guard and 4.3% over WildGuard on the authors' benchmarks
  • Describes an LLM-based data-curation pipeline for generating moderation training data

Methodology Notes

Technical report (arXiv) from the model's developers; benchmark comparisons are the authors' own runs, not independent evaluations. A later ShieldGemma 2 covers image moderation.

Authors

Wenjun Zeng, Yuchi Liu, Ryan Mullins, Ludovic Peran, Joe Fernandez, Hamza Harkous, Karthik Narasimhan, Drew Proud, Piyush Kumar, Bhaktipriya Radharapu, Olivia Sturman, Oscar Wahltinez

Tags

shieldgemmagooglegemmaguardrail-modelcontent-moderationopen-weights

Cite This

APA

Wenjun Zeng et al. (2024). ShieldGemma: Generative AI Content Moderation Based on Gemma. Google. https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.21772