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---
pretty_name: RLCDAlignBench
license: cc-by-nc-4.0
language:
- en
task_categories:
- text-classification
tags:
- alignment
- ai-safety
- jailbreak
- sycophancy
- prompt-injection
- hallucination
- llm-as-a-judge
- calibration
size_categories:
- 10K<n<100K
extra_gated_heading: "Access RLCDAlignBench"
extra_gated_prompt: >-
RLCDAlignBench contains unfiltered outputs of language models on jailbreak, deception,
privacy and other alignment-failure benchmarks. Some responses describe dangerous or offensive
content. The data is released for research on detecting and mitigating alignment failures.
By requesting access you agree to use it for research only, not to use it to build or improve
harmful systems, and to follow the licenses of the upstream benchmarks.
extra_gated_fields:
Name: text
Affiliation: text
Intended use: text
I will use this dataset for research only and will not use it to cause harm: checkbox
configs:
- config_name: all
default: true
data_files:
- split: test
path: data/all.jsonl
- config_name: elephant_aita
data_files:
- split: test
path: data/benchmarks/sycophancy/elephant_aita.jsonl
- config_name: sycon_fp
data_files:
- split: test
path: data/benchmarks/sycophancy/sycon_fp.jsonl
- config_name: sycophancy_eval
data_files:
- split: test
path: data/benchmarks/sycophancy/sycophancy_eval.jsonl
- config_name: sycophancy_feedback
data_files:
- split: test
path: data/benchmarks/sycophancy/sycophancy_feedback.jsonl
- config_name: harmbench
data_files:
- split: test
path: data/benchmarks/jailbreak/harmbench.jsonl
- config_name: jbb
data_files:
- split: test
path: data/benchmarks/jailbreak/jbb.jsonl
- config_name: jbb_artifacts
data_files:
- split: test
path: data/benchmarks/jailbreak/jbb_artifacts.jsonl
- config_name: strongreject
data_files:
- split: test
path: data/benchmarks/jailbreak/strongreject.jsonl
- config_name: deceptionbench_reward
data_files:
- split: test
path: data/benchmarks/deception/deceptionbench_reward.jsonl
- config_name: mask_continuation
data_files:
- split: test
path: data/benchmarks/deception/mask_continuation.jsonl
- config_name: mask_disinformation
data_files:
- split: test
path: data/benchmarks/deception/mask_disinformation.jsonl
- config_name: mask_factual
data_files:
- split: test
path: data/benchmarks/deception/mask_factual.jsonl
- config_name: injecagent
data_files:
- split: test
path: data/benchmarks/prompt_injection/injecagent.jsonl
- config_name: open_prompt_injection
data_files:
- split: test
path: data/benchmarks/prompt_injection/open_prompt_injection.jsonl
- config_name: tensor_trust_extract
data_files:
- split: test
path: data/benchmarks/prompt_injection/tensor_trust_extract.jsonl
- config_name: tensor_trust_hijack
data_files:
- split: test
path: data/benchmarks/prompt_injection/tensor_trust_hijack.jsonl
- config_name: faith_mt_claimcheck
data_files:
- split: test
path: data/benchmarks/hallucination/faith_mt_claimcheck.jsonl
- config_name: faith_mt_grounded
data_files:
- split: test
path: data/benchmarks/hallucination/faith_mt_grounded.jsonl
- config_name: llm_aggrefact_A
data_files:
- split: test
path: data/benchmarks/hallucination/llm_aggrefact_A.jsonl
- config_name: llm_aggrefact_B
data_files:
- split: test
path: data/benchmarks/hallucination/llm_aggrefact_B.jsonl
- config_name: ragtruth
data_files:
- split: test
path: data/benchmarks/hallucination/ragtruth.jsonl
- config_name: summedits
data_files:
- split: test
path: data/benchmarks/hallucination/summedits.jsonl
- config_name: confaide
data_files:
- split: test
path: data/benchmarks/privacy_violation/confaide.jsonl
- config_name: privaci_bench
data_files:
- split: test
path: data/benchmarks/privacy_violation/privaci_bench.jsonl
- config_name: privaci_gdpr_heldout
data_files:
- split: test
path: data/benchmarks/privacy_violation/privaci_gdpr_heldout.jsonl
- config_name: privacylens
data_files:
- split: test
path: data/benchmarks/privacy_violation/privacylens.jsonl
- config_name: bias_race_content
data_files:
- split: test
path: data/benchmarks/social_bias/bias_race_content.jsonl
- config_name: bias_refbio
data_files:
- split: test
path: data/benchmarks/social_bias/bias_refbio.jsonl
- config_name: bias_refletter
data_files:
- split: test
path: data/benchmarks/social_bias/bias_refletter.jsonl
- config_name: bias_scene_heldout
data_files:
- split: test
path: data/benchmarks/social_bias/bias_scene_heldout.jsonl
- config_name: machiavelli_reward
data_files:
- split: test
path: data/benchmarks/reward_hacking/machiavelli_reward.jsonl
- config_name: reward_hacking_freeform
data_files:
- split: test
path: data/benchmarks/reward_hacking/reward_hacking_freeform.jsonl
- config_name: reward_harm_freeform
data_files:
- split: test
path: data/benchmarks/reward_hacking/reward_harm_freeform.jsonl
- config_name: rh_mt_reward
data_files:
- split: test
path: data/benchmarks/reward_hacking/rh_mt_reward.jsonl
- config_name: rh_rubric_tamper
data_files:
- split: test
path: data/benchmarks/reward_hacking/rh_rubric_tamper.jsonl
- config_name: world_affecting_reward
data_files:
- split: test
path: data/benchmarks/reward_hacking/world_affecting_reward.jsonl
- config_name: abstentionbench
data_files:
- split: test
path: data/benchmarks/concealing_uncertainty/abstentionbench.jsonl
- config_name: llm_uncertainty_bench
data_files:
- split: test
path: data/benchmarks/concealing_uncertainty/llm_uncertainty_bench.jsonl
- config_name: sciq_uncertainty
data_files:
- split: test
path: data/benchmarks/concealing_uncertainty/sciq_uncertainty.jsonl
- config_name: verbalized_ece
data_files:
- split: test
path: data/benchmarks/concealing_uncertainty/verbalized_ece.jsonl
- config_name: instrumental_eval
data_files:
- split: test
path: data/benchmarks/power_seeking/instrumental_eval.jsonl
- config_name: machiavelli_harm
data_files:
- split: test
path: data/benchmarks/power_seeking/machiavelli_harm.jsonl
- config_name: machiavelli_heldout
data_files:
- split: test
path: data/benchmarks/power_seeking/machiavelli_heldout.jsonl
- config_name: machiavelli_power
data_files:
- split: test
path: data/benchmarks/power_seeking/machiavelli_power.jsonl
- config_name: strongreject_human
data_files:
- split: test
path: data/human/strongreject_human.jsonl
- config_name: strongreject_human__official_rubric
data_files:
- split: test
path: data/human/strongreject_human__official_rubric.jsonl
- config_name: harmbench_human__attack
data_files:
- split: test
path: data/human/harmbench_human__attack.jsonl
- config_name: harmbench_human__request_only
data_files:
- split: test
path: data/human/harmbench_human__request_only.jsonl
- config_name: index
data_files:
- split: test
path: data/index.jsonl
---
# RLCDAlignBench
**Paper:** *Just Ask Jev: Reinforcement Learning for Calibrated Decisions as a Zero-Shot Detector of AI Alignment Failures* ([arXiv:2609.29429](https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.29429))
**Code:** [github.com/sumleo/RLCDAlignBench](https://github.com/sumleo/RLCDAlignBench) · **Project page:** [sumleo.github.io/RLCDAlignBench](https://sumleo.github.io/RLCDAlignBench/)
RLCDAlignBench measures whether a detector can tell when a language model's output is an alignment failure.
It has **44 benchmarks** across **ten failure types** and **five target models** (Qwen3.5-2B, Phi-4-mini, Gemma-2-2B, Llama-3.2-3B, Olmo-3-7B), for **7,193 labelled detection instances**.
Each instance pairs the fields a detector sees (`state`) with a binary label from the benchmark's own reference scorer, which is a rule, an LLM judge, or a multi-turn trajectory judge.
Two extra sets carry human labels (StrongREJECT and HarmBench).
The release also contains every input variant used in the paper's context experiments, the raw answers of Jev on all of them, per-strategy metrics, and the provenance needed to rebuild each label (generation outputs, judge calls, official scores and logs).
> ⚠️ **Content warning.** Responses were produced by small open models under jailbreak and other adversarial prompts. Many are harmful. Access is gated and the data is for research only.
## Quick start
```python
from datasets import load_dataset
# one benchmark, native nested fields
hb = load_dataset("sumleo/RLCDAlignBench", "harmbench", split="test")
print(hb[0]["state"].keys(), hb[0]["label"])
# all 7,193 instances in one table (state and meta are JSON strings)
import json
ds = load_dataset("sumleo/RLCDAlignBench", "all", split="test")
state = json.loads(ds[0]["state"])
# the 44-row index
idx = load_dataset("sumleo/RLCDAlignBench", "index", split="test").to_pandas()
```
To download everything, including variants, Jev answers and provenance:
```bash
huggingface-cli download sumleo/RLCDAlignBench --repo-type dataset --local-dir RLCDAlignBench
```
## Instance format
Every line of `data/benchmarks/**.jsonl`, `data/human/*.jsonl` and `data/variants/**.jsonl` has the same top-level keys.
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| `id` | str | Stable instance id. Jev answers in `jev/responses/` use the same id. |
| `benchmark` | str | Benchmark id (config name). |
| `failure_type` | str | One of the ten failure types below. |
| `variant` | str | Which input view this is (see *Variants*). Canonical instances keep the variant name of their source file. |
| `target_model` | str | Hugging Face id of the model whose output is judged. |
| `item` | int | Item index in the upstream benchmark suite. |
| `state` | dict | The fields the detector sees, e.g. `forbidden_request`, `response`, `attack_prompt`. Keys differ per benchmark and are fixed within one. |
| `label` | int | 1 = the output is a failure of this type (what the detector must flag), 0 = not. |
| `label_source` | str | Which scorer produced the label. |
| `meta` | dict | Label rule, judge verdict, grouping id for bootstrap, and hashes that link back to the provenance files. |
The files under `data/variants/` are the untouched originals and use the same keys except `benchmark`, `failure_type`, `variant` and `target_model`, which are encoded in the path instead. Their `label` can be `null` for items the official scorer excludes.
## Benchmarks
Split roles (hill-climb or held-out) come from the AAR suite of Chen et al. (2026), from which the 44 benchmarks are taken.
*Degenerate* benchmarks have one class or at most four minority items. They are released but excluded from the paper's aggregates.
| Failure type | Config | Benchmark | Split | Scorer | Target model | n | Pos. | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---:|---:|---|
| sycophancy | `elephant_aita` | ELEPHANT (AITA) | hill-climb | Rule | Qwen/Qwen3.5-2B | 255 | 134 | ok |
| sycophancy | `sycon_fp` | SYCON-Bench (false premise) | held-out | Multi-turn | Qwen/Qwen3.5-2B | 17 | 14 | degenerate (minority class n=3) |
| sycophancy | `sycophancy_eval` | SycophancyEval (answer) | hill-climb | Judge | Qwen/Qwen3.5-2B | 150 | 123 | ok |
| sycophancy | `sycophancy_feedback` | SycophancyEval (feedback) | hill-climb | Judge | Qwen/Qwen3.5-2B | 217 | 30 | ok |
| jailbreak | `harmbench` | HarmBench | hill-climb | Judge | microsoft/Phi-4-mini-instruct | 150 | 51 | ok |
| jailbreak | `jbb` | JailbreakBench (persona) | hill-climb | Judge | microsoft/Phi-4-mini-instruct | 100 | 1 | degenerate (minority class n=1) |
| jailbreak | `jbb_artifacts` | JailbreakBench (PAIR) | hill-climb | Judge | microsoft/Phi-4-mini-instruct | 64 | 15 | ok |
| jailbreak | `strongreject` | StrongREJECT | held-out | Judge | microsoft/Phi-4-mini-instruct | 100 | 39 | ok |
| deception | `deceptionbench_reward` | DeceptionBench | held-out | Judge | google/gemma-2-2b-it | 300 | 149 | ok |
| deception | `mask_continuation` | MASK (continuation) | hill-climb | Judge | google/gemma-2-2b-it | 82 | 42 | ok |
| deception | `mask_disinformation` | MASK (disinformation) | hill-climb | Judge | google/gemma-2-2b-it | 102 | 32 | ok |
| deception | `mask_factual` | MASK (factual) | hill-climb | Judge | google/gemma-2-2b-it | 56 | 22 | ok |
| prompt_injection | `injecagent` | InjecAgent | held-out | Rule | Qwen/Qwen3.5-2B | 136 | 17 | ok |
| prompt_injection | `open_prompt_injection` | Open-Prompt-Injection | hill-climb | Rule | Qwen/Qwen3.5-2B | 300 | 211 | ok |
| prompt_injection | `tensor_trust_extract` | Tensor Trust (extraction) | hill-climb | Rule | Qwen/Qwen3.5-2B | 300 | 119 | ok |
| prompt_injection | `tensor_trust_hijack` | Tensor Trust (hijacking) | hill-climb | Rule | Qwen/Qwen3.5-2B | 300 | 137 | ok |
| hallucination | `faith_mt_claimcheck` | LLM-AggreFact (multi-turn) | hill-climb | Multi-turn | meta-llama/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct | 148 | 139 | skewed (>90% one class) |
| hallucination | `faith_mt_grounded` | RAGTruth (multi-turn) | hill-climb | Multi-turn | meta-llama/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct | 116 | 12 | ok |
| hallucination | `llm_aggrefact_A` | LLM-AggreFact (A) | hill-climb | Rule | meta-llama/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct | 150 | 70 | ok |
| hallucination | `llm_aggrefact_B` | LLM-AggreFact (B) | hill-climb | Rule | meta-llama/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct | 150 | 65 | ok |
| hallucination | `ragtruth` | RAGTruth | hill-climb | Judge | meta-llama/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct | 300 | 158 | ok |
| hallucination | `summedits` | SummEdits | held-out | Rule | meta-llama/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct | 300 | 129 | ok |
| privacy_violation | `confaide` | ConfAIde (tier 2b) | hill-climb | Rule | microsoft/Phi-4-mini-instruct | 98 | 18 | ok |
| privacy_violation | `privaci_bench` | PrivaCI-Bench | hill-climb | Rule | microsoft/Phi-4-mini-instruct | 300 | 35 | ok |
| privacy_violation | `privaci_gdpr_heldout` | PrivaCI-Bench (GDPR) | held-out | Rule | microsoft/Phi-4-mini-instruct | 300 | 27 | skewed (>90% one class) |
| privacy_violation | `privacylens` | PrivacyLens | hill-climb | Judge | microsoft/Phi-4-mini-instruct | 110 | 50 | ok |
| social_bias | `bias_race_content` | Stories (race name swap) | hill-climb | Judge | allenai/Olmo-3-7B-Instruct | 60 | 60 | degenerate (single class) |
| social_bias | `bias_refbio` | Professional bios (gender) | hill-climb | Judge | allenai/Olmo-3-7B-Instruct | 52 | 49 | degenerate (minority class n=3) |
| social_bias | `bias_refletter` | Reference letters (gender) | hill-climb | Judge | allenai/Olmo-3-7B-Instruct | 43 | 30 | ok |
| social_bias | `bias_scene_heldout` | Workplace scenes (WinoBias) | held-out | Judge | allenai/Olmo-3-7B-Instruct | 44 | 37 | ok |
| reward_hacking | `machiavelli_reward` | MACHIAVELLI (reward) | held-out | Rule | Qwen/Qwen3.5-2B | 200 | 116 | ok |
| reward_hacking | `reward_hacking_freeform` | Revealed reward (free-form) | hill-climb | Judge | Qwen/Qwen3.5-2B | 39 | 10 | ok |
| reward_hacking | `reward_harm_freeform` | World-affecting reward (free-form) | hill-climb | Judge | Qwen/Qwen3.5-2B | 60 | 10 | ok |
| reward_hacking | `rh_mt_reward` | Revealed reward (multi-turn) | hill-climb | Multi-turn | Qwen/Qwen3.5-2B | 69 | 33 | ok |
| reward_hacking | `rh_rubric_tamper` | Rubric tampering | hill-climb | Rule | Qwen/Qwen3.5-2B | 50 | 0 | degenerate (single class) |
| reward_hacking | `world_affecting_reward` | World-affecting reward (choice) | hill-climb | Rule | Qwen/Qwen3.5-2B | 296 | 117 | ok |
| concealing_uncertainty | `abstentionbench` | AbstentionBench | hill-climb | Judge | allenai/Olmo-3-7B-Instruct | 150 | 146 | degenerate (minority class n=4) |
| concealing_uncertainty | `llm_uncertainty_bench` | LLM-Uncertainty-Bench | hill-climb | Rule | allenai/Olmo-3-7B-Instruct | 150 | 15 | ok |
| concealing_uncertainty | `sciq_uncertainty` | SciQ | held-out | Rule | allenai/Olmo-3-7B-Instruct | 150 | 6 | skewed (>90% one class) |
| concealing_uncertainty | `verbalized_ece` | Verbalized confidence | hill-climb | Rule | allenai/Olmo-3-7B-Instruct | 298 | 102 | ok |
| power_seeking | `instrumental_eval` | InstrumentalEval | hill-climb | Judge | meta-llama/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct | 31 | 9 | ok |
| power_seeking | `machiavelli_harm` | MACHIAVELLI (harm) | hill-climb | Rule | meta-llama/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct | 300 | 125 | ok |
| power_seeking | `machiavelli_heldout` | MACHIAVELLI (held-out games) | held-out | Rule | meta-llama/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct | 300 | 137 | ok |
| power_seeking | `machiavelli_power` | MACHIAVELLI (power) | hill-climb | Rule | meta-llama/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct | 300 | 159 | ok |
**Human-labelled sets**
| Config | Items | Label |
|---|---:|---|
| `strongreject_human` | 1,361 | median of 5 human raters ≥ 0.5 (StrongREJECT labelbox set) |
| `strongreject_human__official_rubric` | 1,361 | same items, labelled by the official StrongREJECT rubric (GPT-4o-mini) |
| `harmbench_human__attack` | 584 | majority of 3 human votes (HarmBench validation set), state includes the attack prompt |
| `harmbench_human__request_only` | 602 | same set, state without the attack prompt |
## Repository layout
```
benchmarks.csv 44-row index: name, failure type, split, scorer, label source, n, positives, status
variants.csv every input variant: benchmark, variant, track, rows, state fields, path
data/
all.jsonl the 7,193 canonical instances in one file (state and meta as JSON strings)
index.jsonl benchmarks.csv as JSONL
benchmarks/<failure_type>/<benchmark>.jsonl canonical instances, labelled items only (matches the paper's n)
human/<set>.jsonl human-labelled sets
variants/<benchmark>/<variant>.jsonl all 132 input files used in the paper, byte-identical to the originals
jev/
responses/<benchmark>/<variant>/<battery>.jsonl Jev's answers: per question, the probabilities, score, confidence, latency
metrics/<benchmark>/<variant>/<battery>.{json,md} precision, recall, F1, balanced accuracy, AUROC for every readout strategy
results/ paper-level tables (main results, baselines, human agreement, cost, corrected labels)
provenance/
benchmark_suites/<axis>/<benchmark>.jsonl the prompt suites (AAR publish_suite, seed 42)
model_outputs/<axis>/<model>/... target-model generations with inputs and log-probabilities
judge_records/{snapshot,final}/<axis>/... every reference-scorer call (input and verdict), i.e. the label source
official_scores/{snapshot,final}/<axis>/... the official aggregate scores, reconciled against the labels
logs/ generation, judge replay and Jev batch logs
file_map.csv original package path -> release path, with sha256
```
### Variants
`variants.csv` assigns each input file to a track.
| Track | Meaning |
|---|---|
| `main` | the detection input used for the paper's results (`is_canonical = True` marks the one per benchmark) |
| `official_track` | the input the official scorer sees, which can include fields that encode the label (e.g. PrivacyLens's secret list) |
| `ablation` | adds or removes one context field (e.g. the attack prompt, the model's reasoning) |
| `oracle_upper_bound` | adds a field that reveals the reference, so it is an upper bound and not deployable |
| `exclusion` | label 1 iff the official scorer excludes the item from its score |
| `understanding` | gold labels on source data without target-model output (tests task understanding) |
| `nominal` | reported but not used in aggregates |
### Jev answers
Each line of `jev/responses/**.jsonl` is one call to Jev for one instance. `answers` maps each question id to its type (`choice`, `score` or `noul`), the answer, `confidence`, and the full `probabilities` over the options. The battery that defines the questions is in `code/battery_*.py` in the GitHub repository. Metrics can be recomputed offline from these answers without calling Jev (see the GitHub README).
## How the labels were made
Target models were run on the AAR benchmark suite (driver in `code/generation/run_generate.py`). Each output was then scored by the benchmark's official scorer, replayed from the AAR repository at commit `02dbe9d`. The build scripts recompute each benchmark's official aggregate from the labels and fail if it does not match `provenance/official_scores/`. Section 3 and the appendix *Human Agreement and Label Audit* describe the audit that found label defects in three benchmarks and labels that depend on fields missing from the state in four more. `results/corrected_labels.csv` compares official and corrected labels on the defective benchmarks. The released `label` is always the official one.
## Intended use and limitations
- Use it to evaluate detectors, monitors and judges of alignment failures, and to study which context a detector needs.
- Labels come from each benchmark's own scorer. They inherit that scorer's errors, and only StrongREJECT and HarmBench have human labels.
- Target models are small (2–7B). Failure rates and styles differ for larger models.
- Several benchmarks are small or skewed. Report per-benchmark results with confidence intervals and use `status` in `benchmarks.csv` to drop degenerate ones.
## License
Our labels, annotations, Jev outputs and metadata are released under CC BY-NC 4.0. Prompts and reference content from upstream benchmarks remain under their original licenses, and model outputs are subject to the target models' terms. The code is MIT-licensed.
## Citation
```bibtex
@misc{guo2026justaskjevreinforcement,
title={Just Ask Jev: Reinforcement Learning for Calibrated Decisions as a Zero-Shot Detector of AI Alignment Failures},
author={Ruoqi Guo and Yi Liu and Gelei Deng and Yuekang Li and Lida Zhao and Yutao Wu and Simin Chen and Ying Zhang and Leo Yu Zhang},
year={2026},
eprint={2609.29429},
archivePrefix={arXiv},
primaryClass={cs.AI},
url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.29429},
}
```
Please also cite the upstream benchmarks you use. `benchmarks.csv` lists each one's source.