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New RedactionBench benchmark reveals LLMs struggle with contextual PII redaction

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Researchers have introduced RedactionBench, a new benchmark designed to evaluate how well large language models can redact personally identifiable information (PII) while considering contextual privacy. The benchmark includes 200 diverse documents and a novel R-Score metric that accounts for semantic similarity in redactions. Evaluations show that current models, including frontier models with agentic tools, struggle with contextual redaction, and human annotators also exhibit significant disagreement on what constitutes a contextual redaction. AI

IMPACT Highlights a critical gap in LLM capabilities for sensitive data handling, potentially influencing future model development and evaluation standards for privacy-preserving AI.

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New RedactionBench benchmark reveals LLMs struggle with contextual PII redaction

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Sean Brynj\'olfsson, Shashvat Jayakrishnan, Esha Sali, Diptanshu Purwar, Madhav Aggarwal ·

    RedactionBench

    arXiv:2606.18782v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models are increasingly applied to sensitive domains that require redaction of personally identifiable information (PII). While redacting PII is a data cleaning prerequisite, existing benchmarks conflate extraction …

  2. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Madhav Aggarwal ·

    RedactionBench

    Large Language Models are increasingly applied to sensitive domains that require redaction of personally identifiable information (PII). While redacting PII is a data cleaning prerequisite, existing benchmarks conflate extraction mechanics with privacy semantics. A public phone n…

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