| --- |
| license: apache-2.0 |
| pretty_name: EquityBench |
| language: |
| - en |
| tags: |
| - clinical-ai |
| - llm-security |
| - ai-agents |
| - healthcare |
| - haarf |
| - quokkaguard |
| - synthetic |
| size_categories: |
| - 100K<n<1M |
| task_categories: |
| - other |
| --- |
| |
| # EquityBench |
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| **An out-of-band subgroup fairness monitor that audits the guardrail's own deny and escalate decisions.** |
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| EquityBench is the benchmark corpus for *Equity-Aware Enforcement: When the Guardrail Itself Becomes a Fairness Hazard*, the `qufair` module of the QUOKKAGUARD program. It ships with the [`qufair`](https://github.com/quome-cloud/qufair) repository, which contains the `qfire` gateway layer under test, the experiment harness, and the paper. |
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| Synthetic, deterministic (seed 42) corpora: equitybench/matched.jsonl (1003 matched-counterfactual clinical requests, 59 templates x 5 protected axes, roughly 15% genuinely out-of-scope), matched_named.jsonl (real distinctive-name rendering), vulnerable.jsonl (60 scenarios across four vulnerable populations), intersectional.jsonl (attribute-pair records with a 2x2 antisymmetric interaction), and the gitignored ~45MB injected.jsonl (180,000 decision traces with injected disparity over a delta x per-group-N x seed grid); external/compas.jsonl holds 6,130 ProPublica COMPAS defendants converted to the monitor's decision-stream schema. |
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| **All data are synthetic.** No real patient data or protected health information (PHI) is included; clinical content is generated from templates with fixed seeds. |
| |
| ## Files |
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| | File | Size | Rows | |
| |---|---|---| |
| | `equitybench/injected.jsonl` | 44 MB | 180,000 rows | |
| | `equitybench/intersectional.jsonl` | 810 KB | 3,750 rows | |
| | `equitybench/matched.jsonl` | 265 KB | 1,003 rows | |
| | `equitybench/matched_named.jsonl` | 104 KB | 354 rows | |
| | `equitybench/vulnerable.jsonl` | 15 KB | 60 rows | |
| | `external/compas.jsonl` | 664 KB | 6,172 rows | |
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| ### Record schemas |
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| - `equitybench/injected.jsonl`: `case_id`, `cell`, `axis`, `group`, `score`, `label`, `action`, `fair_reference`, `disadvantaged`, `delta`, `n_per_group`, `seed` |
| - `equitybench/intersectional.jsonl`: `case_id`, `axes`, `group`, `score`, `label`, `action`, `fair_reference`, `disadvantaged_cell` |
| - `equitybench/matched.jsonl`: `case_id`, `set_id`, `axis`, `group`, `prompt`, `chain`, `fair_reference` |
| - `equitybench/matched_named.jsonl`: `case_id`, `set_id`, `axis`, `group`, `prompt`, `chain`, `fair_reference`, `name_source` |
| - `equitybench/vulnerable.jsonl`: `case_id`, `tag`, `group`, `prompt`, `unsafe_action`, `safe_action`, `is_unsafe_default` |
| - `external/compas.jsonl`: `case_id`, `group`, `action`, `label`, `score` |
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| ## How it was generated |
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| The corpus is produced by the generator in the paper repository and is fully deterministic (fixed seeds), so it can be regenerated byte-for-byte. |
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| ```bash |
| # from the qufair repository root (deterministic seeds) |
| python3 scripts/010-equity/gen_equity.py # rebuilds equitybench/ incl. the untracked injected.jsonl; python3 scripts/010-equity/prep_external.py re-downloads and converts COMPAS |
| ``` |
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| ## Intended use |
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| Evaluating the **equity** enforcement layer of a clinical-agent security gateway (HAARF control C7): A guardrail that denies or escalates clinical agent actions unevenly across protected groups is itself a fairness hazard, distinct from and invisible to the agent's own bias. |
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| The experiments that consume it (E-series in the paper) are reproduced from the repository: |
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| ```bash |
| git clone https://github.com/quome-cloud/qufair |
| cd qufair |
| cargo build --release |
| ``` |
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| then follow the *Reproduce the experiments* section of its README. |
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| ## Citation |
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| This benchmark was built to evaluate a control of the **Healthcare AI Agents Regulatory Framework (HAARF)**, the source framework for the QUOKKAGUARD program. Please cite both the paper and HAARF: |
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| ```bibtex |
| @unpublished{schwoebel2026qufair, |
| author = {Schwoebel, Jim and {QUOKKAGUARD Contributors}}, |
| title = {Equity-Aware Enforcement: When the Guardrail Itself Becomes a Fairness Hazard}, |
| note = {Preprint. Quome, QUOKKAGUARD program (qufair module)}, |
| year = {2026}, |
| url = {https://github.com/quome-cloud/qufair} |
| } |
| |
| @unpublished{schwoebel2026haarf, |
| author = {Schwoebel, Jim and Frasch, Martin and Spalding, Art and Sewell, Ed and Englert, Phil and Halpert, Ben and Overbay, Collin and Semenec, Ingrida and Shor, Joel}, |
| title = {{HAARF}: Healthcare {AI} agents regulatory framework --- a comprehensive security verification standard for autonomous {AI} systems in clinical environments}, |
| note = {medRxiv Preprint}, |
| year = {2026}, |
| month = {April}, |
| doi = {10.64898/2026.04.09.26350519}, |
| url = {https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.09.26350519v1} |
| } |
| ``` |
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| ## License |
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| Apache License 2.0. Copyright (c) 2026 Quome, Inc. |
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