SafetyFlow: An Agent-Flow System for Automated LLM Safety Benchmarking
This addresses the need for efficient and scalable safety evaluation for LLM developers and researchers, though it is incremental as it automates an existing process rather than introducing a new safety paradigm.
The authors tackled the problem of labor-intensive and limited LLM safety benchmarks by introducing SafetyFlow, an agent-flow system that automatically constructs comprehensive safety benchmarks in four days without human intervention, producing a dataset of 23,446 queries with low redundancy and strong discriminative power.
The rapid proliferation of large language models (LLMs) has intensified the requirement for reliable safety evaluation to uncover model vulnerabilities. To this end, numerous LLM safety evaluation benchmarks are proposed. However, existing benchmarks generally rely on labor-intensive manual curation, which causes excessive time and resource consumption. They also exhibit significant redundancy and limited difficulty. To alleviate these problems, we introduce SafetyFlow, the first agent-flow system designed to automate the construction of LLM safety benchmarks. SafetyFlow can automatically build a comprehensive safety benchmark in only four days without any human intervention by orchestrating seven specialized agents, significantly reducing time and resource cost. Equipped with versatile tools, the agents of SafetyFlow ensure process and cost controllability while integrating human expertise into the automatic pipeline. The final constructed dataset, SafetyFlowBench, contains 23,446 queries with low redundancy and strong discriminative power. Our contribution includes the first fully automated benchmarking pipeline and a comprehensive safety benchmark. We evaluate the safety of 49 advanced LLMs on our dataset and conduct extensive experiments to validate our efficacy and efficiency.