CWRUSafetyLab/Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct-EASE

TEXT GENERATIONConcurrent Unit Cost:1Model Size:1.5BQuant:BF16Context Size:32kTool Calling:SupportedPublished:Jan 20, 2026License:apache-2.0Architecture:Transformer Open Weights Featherless Exclusive Cold

CWRUSafetyLab/Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct-EASE is a fine-tuned Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct model developed by CWRUSafetyLab. This model is specifically aligned for adaptive safety reasoning, activating explicit safety measures only under jailbreak-like prompts. It aims to maintain general task effectiveness and efficiency while enhancing robustness against jailbreak attacks. This makes it suitable for safety-oriented research in small language models and jailbreak robustness.

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Overview

CWRUSafetyLab/Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct-EASE is a specialized instruction-tuned language model based on Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct. Developed by CWRUSafetyLab, this model is fine-tuned on the EASE-SafetyReasoning dataset, which is part of the EASE framework for practical and efficient safety alignment in small language models.

Key Capabilities

  • Adaptive Safety Reasoning: The model is designed to activate explicit safety reasoning only when it detects jailbreak-like semantics in prompts.
  • Efficiency and Effectiveness: It avoids unnecessary safety reasoning on benign or general prompts, thereby preserving the model's general task performance and computational efficiency.
  • Jailbreak Robustness: A primary goal of this fine-tuning is to improve the model's resilience against various jailbreak attacks.

Intended Use Cases

This model is primarily intended for safety-oriented research, focusing on:

  • Safety Alignment: Investigating and developing methods for aligning language models with safety principles.
  • Small Language Models (SLMs): Researching the unique challenges and opportunities in safety for smaller models.
  • Jailbreak Robustness: Studying and enhancing the ability of models to resist malicious prompts designed to bypass safety filters.

For more details, refer to the associated paper: EASE: Practical and Efficient Safety Alignment for Small Language Models.