Benchmark Almanac

Safety mode controllability (Cohere)

Only in system cards

Models follow contextual or strict safety instructions. Accuracy averages correct answers on an over-refusal set and correct refusals on a control set.

In-house Cohere evaluation. The tasks are not public.

Made by
Cohere
Released
April 2025
Kind
Refusing harmful requests
Level
Everyday
Scored
Graded by a model
Answers
Open-ended
Tasks
Kept private
Last in a system card
April 2025
Last model added
April 2025
1
System card reports it, from 1 lab

No scores here yet

No lab, leaderboard or Epoch AI run has reported a score for Safety mode controllability (Cohere) yet.

Labs report it only in system cards

We read the headline results of 522 launch posts from 52 labs, and none of them list this benchmark. Some system cards do, below.

One system card reports it

Besides launch posts, we read the system cards, model cards and technical reports labs publish with a release. They report far more, including safety and frontier-risk tests.

DateDocumentScoreAs the document writes itSection
Apr 1, 2025 Cohere Command A technical report Safety mode performance, two modes with no overall (Table 27): Contextual Accuracy 75.4, Over-Refusal 8.3. Strict Accuracy 87.5, Over-Refusal 10.2 Safety

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