arxivcs.CVcs.AIcs.CL2026-07-07
PolicyShiftGuard: Benchmarking and Improving Policy-Adaptive Image Guardrails
Mingyang Song, Luxin Xu, Haoyu Sun, Minzhou Pan, Yu Cheng, Bo Li
Image guardrails are typically trained and evaluated under a fixed safety policy, implicitly treating safety as an intrinsic property of an image. Real deployments are different: the same image may be allowed in one product, restricted in another, and newly disallowed when a poli…