BanglaShield: A Script-Robust Safety Classifier and Benchmark for Bangla Native, Romanized, and Code-Mixed Prompts

Mohsinul Kabir, Md. Tariquzzaman, Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat +2

Safety classifiers for large language models (LLMs) are typically built and evaluated on standard-script text, yet Bangla, like many lower-resource languages, is routinely written…