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feat(benchmark): add content_safety_parity benchmark and unit tests - #2520
Renames file to content_safety_parity.py and places it under benchmark/content_safety_parity/
Adds 22 unit tests under benchmark/content_safety_parity/tests/ (no live API calls)
Adds benchmark/content_safety_parity/tests to pytest.ini testpaths
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Removed section delimiter banner comments
Added temperature=0 to NIM call for determinism
Fixed VLGuardEval docstring: images are sent as base64 content blocks, not skipped
Fixed run_guardrails_eval docstring: the full 3-stage pipeline (input rail → main model → output rail) runs for safe prompts, so Guardrails latency is higher than a direct NIM call even in stub mode
Fixed _stratified_sample to fill remaining slots from the larger class when the minority class is exhausted (e.g. 3 safe + 17 unsafe = 20 total, not 3 + 10)
Updated comparison output message to reflect the correct latency behaviour
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Review comments at @benchmark/content_safety_parity/content_safety_parity.py:
- Around line 189-191: Update _stratified_sample to recompute n_safe after
determining n_unsafe, assigning safe rows any remaining requested slots the
unsafe class cannot fill. Preserve the existing class balance when neither class
is exhausted.
- Around line 765-838: Update print_comparison to exclude samples with an
image_path in s.extra from valid agreement pairs, since the Guardrails
evaluation in eval_one sends only s.text. Keep errored-pair counts separate from
image exclusions, and report how many image samples were excluded so the
agreement denominator reflects only comparable, successful evaluations.
Walkthrough
Adds a benchmark harness for five content-safety datasets. It supports balanced sampling, direct NIM evaluation, optional Guardrails comparison, and reports classification metrics, latency, and dataset-specific breakdowns.
Changes: Content safety benchmark
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Summary
Sample and dataset preparation benchmark/content_safety_parity/content_safety_parity.py, benchmark/content_safety_parity/__init__.py, benchmark/content_safety_parity/tests/*, pytest.ini
Adds shared sample and verdict structures, stratified sampling, and loaders for Aegis, Nemotron Safety Guard, CoSApien, DynaGuardrail, and VLGuard. Dataset handling includes gated access, DynaGuardrail policies, and VLGuard image extraction. Adds license notices and includes the benchmark tests in pytest discovery.
NIM evaluation and verdict handling benchmark/content_safety_parity/content_safety_parity.py, benchmark/content_safety_parity/tests/test_content_safety_parity.py
Adds verdict parsing, classification metrics, text and image request construction, asynchronous NIM calls with retries, and direct and Guardrails evaluation. Tests cover parsing, metrics, and request content construction.
Reporting and command-line execution benchmark/content_safety_parity/content_safety_parity.py
Adds latency and classification reports, grouped and policy comparisons, CLI options, and the async entry point that loads samples, runs evaluations, and optionally compares Guardrails results.
sequenceDiagram
participant Main as main
participant Loaders as DATASET_LOADERS
participant DirectEval as run_direct_eval
participant CallNIM as _call_nim_once
participant NIM
participant Results as print_results
Main->>Loaders: Load selected dataset samples
Main->>DirectEval: Evaluate prompt samples
DirectEval->>CallNIM: Send sample text and optional image
CallNIM->>NIM: Submit content-safety request
NIM-->>CallNIM: Return verdict response
CallNIM-->>DirectEval: Return parsed verdict
DirectEval-->>Main: Return verdicts
Main->>Results: Report evaluation metrics and latency
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NVIDIA-NeMo/Guardrails#2442: Adds the related content-safety benchmark script, which this PR places under benchmark/content_safety_parity and supplements with unit tests.
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Requested sample counts can be missed, and VLGuard agreement figures can compare different inputs. Fix these benchmark results before merging.
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Add a regression test for an exhausted unsafe class.
No test covers the case where the unsafe class has fewer samples than its share. With 100 safe and 3 unsafe samples and n=20, _stratified_sample returns 13 samples instead of 20. Add the test below. It fails until the fill logic is in _stratified_sample, so keep it in the same change as that fix.
✅ Proposed test
assert safe_n == 3
assert unsafe_n == 17
++ def test_skewed_unsafe_dataset_fills_with_safe(self):+ # 100 safe, 3 unsafe → request 20; unsafe capped at 3, safe fills the rest+ samples = self._samples(100, 3)+ result = _stratified_sample(samples, n=20)+ safe_n = sum(1 for s in result if s.ground_truth == "safe")+ unsafe_n = sum(1 for s in result if s.ground_truth == "unsafe")+ assert unsafe_n == 3+ assert safe_n == 17
The original classification of a trivial nitpick understates this case. The test guards a path where the sampler currently returns too few samples.
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lines 178 - 185:
Update _stratified_sample to fill the requested sample count from the safe class
when the unsafe class has fewer samples than its allocation; add a regression
test alongside test_skewed_dataset_capped_at_available that checks 100 safe and
3 unsafe samples requested at n=20 produce 17 safe and 3 unsafe samples.
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Left items to be addressed, can you address the Greptile and Code Rabbit feedback also?
Code Coverage on the PR by CodeCov since it doesn't run under benchmark. I checked it locally and it's 38%, the parity path is untested. Please add tests to cover the gaps.
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Can you use the same verdict parsing in the direct-case as Guardrails uses? There can be discrepancies due to the parsing rather than any integration-related differences. We also need to check whether Safety Categories is included to make sure the chat_template_kwargs is being used with non-default settings.
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┬────────────────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Raw reply │ Direct side now │ With the shared parser │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────┤
│ User Safety: Safe │ unsafe │ safe │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────┤
│ User Safety: unsafe\nSafety Categories: Violence, Criminal │ unsafe (categories never │ [False, 'Violence', 'Criminal │
│ Planning │ compared) │ Planning'] │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────┤
│ User Safety: (truncated) │ unsafe │ ValueError, so error │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────┤
│ User Safety: unsafe\nUser Safety: safe │ safe │ ValueError, so error │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────┤
│ empty │ error │ ValueError, so error │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┴────────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────────────┘
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Having a second parser that's similar but not exactly the same as the Guardrails production nemotron-3.5-content-safety parser defeats the purpose of an integration-test. The nemotron_content_safety_parse_prompt_safety() is the one used in production. Can you import and use this parser for the direct-testing code?
Moves examples/e2e_tests/test_content_safety_rail.py to
benchmark/content_safety_parity/content_safety_parity.py per Tim Gasser's
review request on PR #2442.
Changes:
- Removed section delimiter banner comments
- Added temperature=0 to NIM call for determinism
- Fixed VLGuard docstring: images are sent as base64, not skipped
- Fixed run_guardrails_eval docstring: 3-stage pipeline runs for safe
prompts, not just the input rail (latency is higher than a direct NIM
call even in stub mode)
- Fixed _stratified_sample to fill slack from the larger class when one
class is capped (3 safe + 17 unsafe = 20, not 3 + 10)
- Updated comparison output message to reflect correct behaviour
- Added 22 unit tests covering parse_verdict, compute_metrics,
_stratified_sample, and _build_content (no live API calls)
- Added benchmark/content_safety_parity/tests to pytest.ini testpaths
Signed-off-by: Sven Chilton <schilton@nvidia.com>
- parse_verdict: case-insensitive "User Safety:" / "Safety Categories:"
matching so "Safe" (capital S) is no longer parsed as unsafe
- run_direct_eval: warn when no Safety Categories lines appear in any
non-error response (validates chat_template_kwargs propagation)
- _stratified_sample: refill spare slots from either class when the
other is exhausted (fixes reverse-skew undersampling)
- run_guardrails_eval: replace generate_async() with
check_async(rail_types=[RailType.INPUT]) for 1:1 input-rail
comparison with direct NIM calls; uses RailStatus enum so HTTP 500
strings returned by Guardrails are never silently recorded as safe
- tests: add capital-S safe/unsafe verdict cases; add reverse-skew
stratified sample test (100 safe, 3 unsafe, n=20 → 17+3=20)
Signed-off-by: Sven Chilton <schilton@nvidia.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Sven Chilton <schilton@nvidia.com>
- parse_verdict: require complete "safe"/"unsafe" value after the
marker; a bare "User Safety:" (truncated response) now sets
error=True instead of being silently counted as unsafe
- load_vlguard: use a _extraction_complete sentinel file so an
interrupted extraction doesn't leave a partial directory that
silently skips re-extraction on the next run
- print_comparison: exclude image-bearing samples from the
Guardrails agreement figure; the check_async path is text-only
so those pairs compare different inputs
- print_policy_comparison: skip error pairs in the disagreement
breakdown and report the count, matching print_comparison behavior
- tests: add test_truncated_verdict_line_is_error
Signed-off-by: Sven Chilton <schilton@nvidia.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Sven Chilton <schilton@nvidia.com>
fix: safe-run warning fires on all-safe datasets (line 747)
Nemotron omits "Safety Categories:" for safe verdicts by design, so
checking all non-error verdicts caused the warning to fire whenever
every sample was classified as safe — a healthy, expected result.
Now only unsafe non-error verdicts are checked; an all-safe run is
not warned on (category output cannot be confirmed but is not broken).
fix: remove dead main_nim_url / main_model_name parameters (line 770)
After switching to check_async(rail_types=[RailType.INPUT]) the main
model is never invoked, making --main-nim-url and --main-model-name
dead code. Remove both CLI flags and function parameters, simplify
_build_rails() to always stub main as the content safety NIM, and
update the docstring to accurately describe input-rail-only operation.
The other five greptile comments (parse_verdict truncation, stratified
sampling, sentinel file, print_comparison image exclusion,
print_policy_comparison error pairs) were already fixed in prior commits.
Signed-off-by: Sven Chilton <schilton@nvidia.com>
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Having a second parser that's similar but not exactly the same as the Guardrails production nemotron-3.5-content-safety parser defeats the purpose of an integration-test. The nemotron_content_safety_parse_prompt_safety() is the one used in production. Can you import and use this parser for the direct-testing code?
…async in Guardrails eval
Address Tim Gasser's review comments on PR #2520:
- parse_verdict: replace custom substring matching with a call to
nemotron_content_safety_parse_prompt_safety() so verdict extraction
stays in sync with the Guardrails runtime; ValueError (truncated,
missing, duplicate verdict) maps to error=True.
- run_guardrails_eval: switch from check_async(RailType.INPUT) to
generate_async with rails.input=True, dialog=False and
log.activated_rails=True. The new _extract_rail_outcome() helper
walks the activated rail log to retrieve the RailOutcome, which
carries both the block decision and the policy_violations category
list. This also verifies that chat_template_kwargs propagates
correctly through the Guardrails layer.
- Tests: add TestExtractRailOutcome (5 cases) and
TestParseVerdictProductionParser (3 cases); update capital-S/U tests
to reflect confirmed production-parser behaviour (case-insensitive).
Coverage improves from 41% to 47%.
Signed-off-by: Sven Chilton <schilton@nvidia.com>
…ls_eval
IORails (NEMO_GUARDRAILS_IORAILS_ENGINE=true) stores action log entries
as verdict dicts rather than RailOutcome objects, so _extract_rail_outcome
returns None for every sample and marks them all as errors. IORails also
ignores dialog=False, causing an extra main-model call for every safe
input and inflating latency figures.
Force NEMO_GUARDRAILS_IORAILS_ENGINE=false at the start of
run_guardrails_eval, since the function relies on legacy-engine log
format throughout.
Addresses Greptile P1 comments on PR #2520.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Sven Chilton <schilton@nvidia.com>
…ent_safety_parity
Adds test classes for all previously uncovered code paths in
benchmark/content_safety_parity/content_safety_parity.py:
- Dataset loaders (load_aegis, load_nemotron_sg, load_cosapien,
load_dynaguardrail, load_vlguard) via sys.modules patching so
optional HuggingFace/pandas deps are not required in CI
- _call_nim_once: happy path, retries, permanent 400 error,
retry-after header (valid and invalid), exhausted retries
- run_direct_eval: response text_type ValueError, no-categories warning
- run_guardrails_eval: block/allow outcomes, failed outcome, None
outcome, generate_async exception, image sample warning, model
config wiring (nim_base_url present and absent)
- print_results, print_group_breakdown, print_policy_comparison,
print_comparison: all branches including error counts, single-group
early return, >10 disagreement truncation, image exclusion
- build_parser: return type and all flags
- main: all branches including dataset-specific paths, compare-guardrails
with missing and present config
Also adds `# pragma: no cover` to the if __name__ == "__main__" guard
so the asyncio.run(main()) entry point is correctly excluded from the
coverage requirement.
Signed-off-by: Sven Chilton <schilton@nvidia.com>
Addresses Greptile P2 finding: two tests leaked environment mutations
to subsequent tests in the same process.
- TestLoadVlguard.test_requires_hf_token: wrapped os.environ.pop with
patch.dict so HF_TOKEN is restored on exit
- TestRunGuardrailsEval: added setup_method/teardown_method using
patch.dict(os.environ, {}) so NEMO_GUARDRAILS_IORAILS_ENGINE=false
(set by the production run_guardrails_eval) does not persist across
tests
No functional change to the benchmark code.
Signed-off-by: Sven Chilton <schilton@nvidia.com>
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Closes #2442 (split per Tim Gasser's review request). Part of NGR-972.
Summary
examples/e2e_tests/test_content_safety_rail.pytobenchmark/content_safety_parity/content_safety_parity.pyper Tim's review on PR feat(docs,examples): migrate tutorials and notebooks to nemotron-3.5-content-safety (NGUARD-972, NGUARD-980) #2442content_safety_parity.pyand places it underbenchmark/content_safety_parity/benchmark/content_safety_parity/tests/(no live API calls)benchmark/content_safety_parity/teststopytest.initestpathsChanges applied
temperature=0to NIM call for determinismVLGuardEvaldocstring: images are sent as base64 content blocks, not skippedrun_guardrails_evaldocstring: the full 3-stage pipeline (input rail → main model → output rail) runs for safe prompts, so Guardrails latency is higher than a direct NIM call even in stub mode_stratified_sampleto fill remaining slots from the larger class when the minority class is exhausted (e.g. 3 safe + 17 unsafe = 20 total, not 3 + 10)Related Items
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