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IH-Challenge: A Training Dataset to Improve Instruction Hierarchy on Frontier LLMs
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IH failures can be confounded with instruction-following failures, conflicts can be nuanced, and models can learn shortcuts such as overrefusing. We introduce IH-Challenge, a reinforcement learning training dataset, to address these difficulties. Fine-tuning GPT-5-Mini on IH-Challenge with online adversarial example generation improves IH robustness by +10.0% on average across 16 in-distribution, out-of-distribution, and human red-teaming benchmarks (84.1% to 94.1%),
Chuan Guo, Juan Felipe Ceron Uribe, Sicheng Zhu, Christopher A. Choquette-Choo, Steph Lin, Nikhil Kandpal, Milad Nasr, Rai (Michael Pokorny), Sam Toyer, Miles Wang, Yaodong Yu, Alex Beutel, Kai Xiao