Evaluation across 1.1 million instances shows sycophancy rates spike in low-resource languages, remain topic-agnostic, and correlate with tokenizer fertility.
The Language Barrier: Dissecting Safety Challenges of
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Low-resource safety failures are action failures because the harmfulness representation transfers but the decision calibration does not; this is fixed by recalibrating a high-resource gate with 1-4 target-language examples.
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Sycophancy as a Multilingual Alignment Failure: How Safety Degrades Across Languages, Topics, and Models
Evaluation across 1.1 million instances shows sycophancy rates spike in low-resource languages, remain topic-agnostic, and correlate with tokenizer fertility.
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Low-Resource Safety Failures Are Action Failures, Not Representation Failures
Low-resource safety failures are action failures because the harmfulness representation transfers but the decision calibration does not; this is fixed by recalibrating a high-resource gate with 1-4 target-language examples.