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OpenAI releases IH-Challenge RL dataset and reports instruction hierarchy gains on injection benchmarks

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OpenAI describes IH-Challenge, a reinforcement learning dataset of simple, programmatically graded conflicts between higher- and lower-privilege instructions designed to avoid shortcuts such as over-refusal. A GPT-5 Mini variant trained on it (GPT-5 Mini-R) improved on instruction-hierarchy benchmarks and on CyberSecEval 2 and an internal prompt injection benchmark, with little capability loss; the dataset is publicly released.

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It is an open training resource for model-level prompt injection robustness from a frontier lab.

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  • GPT-5 Mini vs GPT-5 Mini-R: TensorTrust (dev-user) 0.76 to 0.91; Developer<>User conflict 0.83 to 0.95; IH-Challenge over-refusal 0.79 to 1.00; GPQA Diamond unchanged at 0.83.Results tables
  • Prompt injection robustness improved on CyberSecEval 2 and an internal static benchmark; exact scores shown only in charts.Prompt injection robustness section

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