UNITYAI-GUARD: Pioneering Toxicity Detection Across Low-Resource Indian Languages

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2503.23088v2
• Date: Sat, 05 Jul 2025 09:52:11 GMT
• Title: UNITYAI-GUARD: Pioneering Toxicity Detection Across Low-Resource Indian Languages
• Abstract summary: UnityAI-Guard is a framework for binary toxicity classification targeting low-resource Indian languages.<n>Our approach achieves an impressive average F1-score of 84.23% across seven languages.
• Score: 1.8482570829180918
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: This work introduces UnityAI-Guard, a framework for binary toxicity classification targeting low-resource Indian languages. While existing systems predominantly cater to high-resource languages, UnityAI-Guard addresses this critical gap by developing state-of-the-art models for identifying toxic content across diverse Brahmic/Indic scripts. Our approach achieves an impressive average F1-score of 84.23% across seven languages, leveraging a dataset of 567k training instances and 30k manually verified test instances. By advancing multilingual content moderation for linguistically diverse regions, UnityAI-Guard also provides public API access to foster broader adoption and application.

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