A Missing Slice Is a Missing Measurement: What Language-Level Audits of Safety Datasets Establish, Why the Multi-Turn Residual and Cross-Lingual Transfer Break the Step From Data Gaps to Model Behaviour, and the Contrasts That Would Price Native Data

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Mahendrakar, P. (2026). A Missing Slice Is a Missing Measurement: What Language-Level Audits of Safety Datasets Establish, Why the Multi-Turn Residual and Cross-Lingual Transfer Break the Step From Data Gaps to Model Behaviour, and the Contrasts That Would Price Native Data [Preprint]. Life of Research. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23965964

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@misc{lor1882026,
  title        = {A Missing Slice Is a Missing Measurement: What Language-Level Audits of Safety Datasets Establish, Why the Multi-Turn Residual and Cross-Lingual Transfer Break the Step From Data Gaps to Model Behaviour, and the Contrasts That Would Price Native Data},
  author       = {Pranay Mahendrakar},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Life of Research},
  doi          = {10.5281/zenodo.23965964},
  url          = {https://lifeofresearch.com/preprints/188},
  keywords     = {multilingual safety, low-resource languages, safety datasets, jailbreak evaluation, cross-lingual transfer, dataset documentation, evaluation validity, African languages},
  note         = {LOR-00188}
}

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