arxivcs.CRcs.AI2026-07-11
Minionese: Comprehensive Benchmark and Mechanistic Study of Multilingual LLM Safety
Chigozirim Ifebi, Brent Kong, Ayushi Mehrotra
Safety alignment in large language models remains brittle across languages: prompts reliably refused in English can elicit harmful compliance in non-English and low-resource settings. We introduce \textsc{Minionese}, a multilingual jailbreak benchmark spanning 18 languages, 4 res…