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Shieldstral: Small multimodal safety classifier outperforms larger models

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Researchers have introduced Shieldstral, a 3-billion parameter multimodal safety classifier designed for content moderation. This model formulates safety classification as a binary question-answering task, unifying diverse moderation datasets into a single training framework. Shieldstral demonstrates performance comparable to or exceeding models seven times its size on text safety benchmarks and establishes a new state-of-the-art in multimodal safety classification. The development involved constructing approximately 54.1 million samples for training and a fine-grained evaluation set to assess policy adaptability. AI

IMPACT This model's approach to policy-adaptive safety classification could lead to more efficient and effective content moderation systems.

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 Nederlands(NL) · Antonia Calvi, Avinash Sooriyarachchi, Giada Pistilli, Guillaume Lample, Maarten Buyl, Maximilian Augustin, Maximilian M\"uller, Pierre Stock, Tom Bewley, Wassim Bouaziz, Yimu Pan ·

    Shieldstral

    arXiv:2607.25857v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce Shieldstral, a 3B-parameter policy-adaptive multimodal safety classifier that matches or outperforms models nearly 7$\times$ its size on text safety benchmarks and sets a new state of the art on multimodal safety classi…

  2. Hugging Face Daily Papers TIER_1 Nederlands(NL) ·

    Shieldstral

    We introduce Shieldstral, a 3B-parameter policy-adaptive multimodal safety classifier that matches or outperforms models nearly 7times its size on text safety benchmarks and sets a new state of the art on multimodal safety classification. Shieldstral formulates content moderation…

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