TukaBench extends JailbreakBench to African languages via human translation, cultural adaptation, curated prompts, and code-switching, finding lower refusal rates for culturally grounded prompts and surfacing comprehension and judging limitations.
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African languages incur a median 1.88x tokenization premium over English across 11 frontier tokenizers, reaching 8.92x for N'Ko, with proportional effects on cost, latency, and effective context window.
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TukaBench: A Culturally Grounded Jailbreak Benchmark for African Languages
TukaBench extends JailbreakBench to African languages via human translation, cultural adaptation, curated prompts, and code-switching, finding lower refusal rates for culturally grounded prompts and surfacing comprehension and judging limitations.
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The African Language Tax: Quantifying the Cost, Latency, and Context Penalty of Tokenizing African Languages in Frontier LLMs
African languages incur a median 1.88x tokenization premium over English across 11 frontier tokenizers, reaching 8.92x for N'Ko, with proportional effects on cost, latency, and effective context window.
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