Prompt-Induced Score Variance in Zero-Shot Binary Vision-Language Safety Classification

arXiv:2605.00326 · cs.CL, cs.CV · Submitted 2026-05-01 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL, cs.CV

Submitted: 2026-05-01

Updated: 2026-10-26

Terminology

• AUROC — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Calibration — 2× in this paper · explained in 9 episodes
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Vision-Language Model (VLM) — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

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