TF-RefusalBench - Summarization Refusal: leaderboard

Over-refusal on legitimate court work (Wuhrmann et al., 2026): 2,800 summarization prompts over severe criminal-law passages of public Swiss Federal Supreme Court rulings in German, French, Italian and English. Share of responses that decline the task, by majority of three LLM judges, in percent; lower is better.

Metric: Refusal rate (%; share of 2,800 summarization prompts over Swiss Federal Supreme Court criminal-law passages in which the model declines the task for content or ethical reasons; 3 samples per prompt at temperature 0.7, 2-of-3 majority of three LLM judges). Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Estimated already saturated. 5 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1Qwen 3 32B0#960
2Gemma 4 31B (IT)0#343
3Llama 3.3 70B Instruct7.2#1353
4GPT-OSS-20B14.7#1150

No result here: #1 Claude Fable 5.2, #2 Gemini 4 Carbon, #5 Claude Opus 5.5.

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