Kuldeep


2025

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UnityAI Guard: Pioneering Toxicity Detection Across Low-Resource Indian Languages
Himanshu Beniwal | Reddybathuni Venkat | Rohit Kumar | Birudugadda Srivibhav | Daksh Jain | Pavan Deekshith Doddi | Eshwar Dhande | Adithya Ananth | Kuldeep | Mayank Singh
Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations

This work introduces UnityAI-Guard, a framework for binary toxicity classification targeting low-resource Indian languages. While existing systems predominantly cater to high-resource languages, UnityAI-Guard addresses this critical gap by developing state-of-the-art models for identifying toxic content across diverse Brahmic/Indic scripts. Our approach achieves an impressive average F1-score of 84.23% across seven languages, leveraging a dataset of 567k training instances and 30k manually verified test instances. By advancing multilingual content moderation for linguistically diverse regions, UnityAI-Guard also provides public API access to foster broader adoption and application.