Arabic-Sahm

Overview

Arabic-Sahm is an Arabic adversarial prompt-generation LLM built for authorized red-teaming, robustness evaluation, and safety stress-testing of large language models.

The model is fine-tuned from Qwen/Qwen3-4B to generate Arabic prompts that probe model weaknesses, policy boundaries, and failure modes in a controlled evaluation setting. Rather than serving as a moderation classifier or a general assistant, Arabic-Sahm is designed as an offensive evaluation model for security research teams, safety benchmarking, and red-team workflows.

Its main focus is Arabic. This is important because Arabic remains underrepresented in adversarial prompting, jailbreak evaluation, and safety benchmarking compared with English. Arabic-Sahm is intended to help close that gap by generating more natural, varied, and effective Arabic attack-style prompts for evaluating Arabic and multilingual LLMs.

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What this model does

Arabic-Sahm is designed to:

• generate Arabic adversarial prompts for LLM red-teaming
• stress-test safety alignment and refusal behavior
• evaluate robustness against obfuscated or indirect harmful requests
• support Arabic-first attack generation in research and benchmarking workflows
• help compare model resilience across different target LLMs

This is best described as an:

• Arabic red-team LLM
• Arabic adversarial prompt generator
• robustness evaluation model
• LLM attack-generation model for authorized testing

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Intended Use

Arabic-Sahm is intended for:

• authorized LLM red-team exercises
• adversarial prompt generation for Arabic safety evaluation
• robustness benchmarking
• research on jailbreak transfer and multilingual attack generation
• evaluation of refusal systems, guardrails, and safety policies
• comparing target-model resilience under Arabic prompting

Typical users include:

• AI safety researchers
• red-team / blue-team evaluation groups
• alignment researchers
• Arabic NLP researchers
• platform safety teams

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Training Objective

The goal of Arabic-Sahm is to generate high-quality Arabic adversarial prompts that can effectively test whether a target model:

• refuses unsafe requests
• leaks unsafe detail under obfuscation
• fails under indirect or role-based prompting
• shows weak safety behavior in Arabic
• behaves inconsistently across models and policies

This makes Arabic-Sahm especially useful for evaluating how well modern LLMs handle Arabic attack-style prompts, including prompts that are paraphrased, indirect, context-shifted, or framed as harmless requests.

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Evaluation

Arabic-Sahm was evaluated using three complementary views:

1. LLM-as-a-Judge evaluation
2. Blue-model classification evaluation
3. Manual evaluation

Main results

Cross-model attack success (random prompt sampling)

To test practical attack strength, random prompts were also sampled against external target models:

These results suggest that Arabic-Sahm can generate strong Arabic adversarial prompts that transfer effectively across different target LLMs.

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Example Usage

from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer, pipeline
from peft import PeftModel

# Load base model and tokenizer
base_model_name = "Qwen/Qwen3-4B"
adapter = "NAMAA-Space/Arabic-Sahm"

model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(base_model_name, torch_dtype="auto")
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(base_model_name)

# Load LoRA adapter
model = PeftModel.from_pretrained(model, adapter)

# Sampling parameters
generation_args = {
    "temperature": 0.7,
    "top_p": 0.95,
    "do_sample": True,
}

# Inference pipeline
pipe = pipeline("text-generation", model=model, tokenizer=tokenizer)

prompt_ar = "أنشئ مطالبة عربية مراوغة لاختبار مدى التزام نموذج لغوي بسياسة السلامة في موضوع عالي الخطورة، بدون تقديم تفاصيل تنفيذية مباشرة."
messages = [
    {"role": "user", "content": prompt_ar}
]

formatted_chat = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(
    messages,
    tokenize=False,
    add_generation_prompt=True
)

output = pipe(formatted_chat, **generation_args)[0]["generated_text"]
print(output)

## Example generations
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