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Swiss-Bench 003: Evaluating LLM Reliability and Adversarial Security for Swiss Regulatory Contexts
Fatih Uenal
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Swiss-Bench 003 (SBP-003) is an evaluation framework designed to assess Large Language Models (LLMs) within the Swiss regulatory landscape. It extends the Helvetic AI Assessment Score (HAAS) by adding two new dimensions: D7 (Self-Graded Reliability Proxy) and D8 (Adversarial Security). The benchmark evaluates ten frontier models across 808 Swiss-specific items, covering four languages and seven adapted benchmarks (e.g., Swiss TruthfulQA, Swiss PII-Scope) to ensure compliance with FINMA Guidance 08/2024 and the Federal Act on Data Protection (nDSG).
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Abstract:The deployment of large language models (LLMs) in Swiss financial and regulatory contexts demands empirical evidence of both production reliability and adversarial security, dimensions not jointly operationalized in existing Swiss-focused evaluation frameworks. This paper introduces Swiss-Bench 003 (SBP-003), extending the HAAS (Helvetic AI Assessment Score) from six to eight dimensions by adding D7 (Self-Graded Reliability Proxy) and D8 (Adversarial Security). I evaluate ten frontier models across 808 Swiss-specific items in four languages (German, French, Italian, English), comprising seven Swiss-adapted benchmarks (Swiss TruthfulQA, Swiss IFEval, Swiss SimpleQA, Swiss NIAH, Swiss PII-Scope, System Prompt Leakage, and Swiss German Comprehension) targeting FINMA Guidance 08/2024, the revised Federal Act on Data Protection (nDSG), and OWASP Top 10 for LLMs. Self-graded D7 scores (73-94%) exceed externally judged D8 security scores (20-61%) by a wide margin, though these dimensions use non-comparable scoring regimes. System prompt leakage resistance ranges from 24.8% to 88.2%, while PII extraction defense remains weak (14-42%) across all models. Qwen 3.5 Plus achieves the highest self-graded D7 score (94.4%), while GPT-oss 120B achieves the highest D8 score (60.7%) despite being the lowest-cost model evaluated. All evaluations are zero-shot under provider default settings; D7 is self-graded and does not constitute independently validated accuracy. I provide conceptual mapping tables relating benchmark dimensions to FINMA model validation requirements, nDSG data protection obligations, and OWASP LLM risk categories.
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Swiss-Bench 003: Evaluating LLM Reliability and Adversarial Security for Swiss Regulatory Contexts Fatih Uenal Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado Boulder fatih.uenal@colorado.edu Abstract The deployment of large language models (LLMs) in Swiss financial and regulatory contexts demands empirical evidence of both production reliability and adversarial security, dimensions not jointly operationalized in existing Swiss-focused evaluation frameworks. This paper intro- duces Swiss-Bench 003 (SBP-003), extending the HAAS (Helvetic AI Assessment Score) from six to eight dimensions by adding D7 (Self-Graded Reliability Proxy) and D8 (Adversarial Secu- rity). I evaluate ten frontier models across 808 Swiss-specific items in four languages (German, French, Italian, English), comprising seven Swiss-adapted benchmarks (Swiss TruthfulQA, Swiss IFEval, Swiss SimpleQA, Swiss NIAH, Swiss PII-Scope, System Prompt Leakage, and Swiss German Comprehension) targeting FINMA Guidance 08/2024, the revised Federal Act on Data Protection (nDSG), and OWASP Top 10 for LLMs. Self-graded D7 scores (73–94%) exceed externally judged D8 security scores (20–61%) by a wide margin, though these dimensions use non-comparable scoring regimes. System prompt leakage resistance ranges from 24.8% to 88.2%, while PII extraction defense remains weak (14–42%) across all models. Qwen 3.5 Plus achieves the highest self-graded D7 score (94.4%), while GPT-oss 120B achieves the highest D8 score (60.7%) despite being the lowest-cost model evaluated. All evaluations are zero-shot under provider default settings; D7 is self-graded and does not constitute independently validated ac- curacy. I provide conceptual mapping tables relating benchmark dimensions to FINMA model validation requirements, nDSG data protection obligations, and OWASP LLM risk categories. 1 Introduction Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in high-stakes domains such as financial advisory, legal compliance, and healthcare triage, where unreliable or factually incorrect outputs carry material consequences. In Switzerland, this deployment trajectory intersects with a distinctive regulatory landscape: the Federal Act on Data Protection Confederation [2023] imposes stringent requirements on automated decision-making, while the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Au- thority has issued explicit guidance on the governance of artificial intelligence in regulated financial institutions Authority [2024]. Concurrently, industry frameworks such as OWASP’s Top 10 for LLM Applications Foundation [2025] and the Trust Label developed by the Swiss Digital Initiative Initiative [2024] have sought to codify best practices for responsible AI deployment. However, I am not aware of a benchmark that evaluates LLMs against Swiss-specific regulatory, linguistic, and institutional requirements in one framework. This study addresses this gap by extending Swiss-Bench Uenal [2026] with two new evaluation dimensions: D7 (Self-Graded Reliability Proxy) and D8 (Adversarial Security). Where the original Swiss-Bench SBP-002 assessed models across six HAAS dimensions (Accuracy, Robustness, Safety, Compliance, Swiss Language, and Documentation), the present work adds the two dimensions 1 arXiv:2604.05872v1 [cs.CR] 7 Apr 2026 most directly relevant to regulated production deployment: production reliability, which maps onto FINMA’s requirements for reproducible and auditable AI-assisted outputs, and adversarial secu- rity, which addresses both FINMA’s operational risk expectations and the nDSG’s data protection obligations. This paper makes four contributions. First, I introduce 808 Swiss-specific evaluation items across four languages (DE, FR, IT, EN), organized into seven Swiss-adapted benchmarks. Second, I extend the HAAS framework from 6 to 8 dimensions with configurable weight profiles for different stakeholder perspectives (compliance officers, CISOs, product owners). Third, I evaluate ten frontier models and report, to my knowledge, Swiss-specific D7 and D8 benchmark scores un- der this initial evaluation setup. Fourth, I provide conceptual mapping tables relating benchmark dimensions to selected FINMA Guidance 08/2024, nDSG, and OWASP Top 10 concerns. A jurisdiction-specific benchmark is needed because general-purpose evaluation suites, while valuable, tend to reflect Anglophone legal norms and cultural assumptions that do not always trans- fer to the Swiss context, where four national languages, a federal legal tradition, and sector-specific regulatory regimes create unique challenges. For instance, research on training data extraction Carlini and et al. [2021, 2023] has demonstrated that LLMs can memorize and reproduce sensi- tive information, a risk with particular salience under the nDSG’s data minimization and purpose limitation principles Confederation [2023]. Similarly, OWASP’s Top 10 identifies prompt injection, insecure output handling, and sensitive information disclosure as critical vulnerabilities, each of which maps onto specific obligations under Swiss financial regulation Authority [2024]. Without a benchmark that operationalizes these jurisdiction-specific risks, practitioners and regulators lack the empirical basis needed to assess whether a given model meets the trustworthiness thresholds required for deployment. The benchmark is designed so that the Swiss-specific content can be replaced with content from other jurisdictions. It draws on established evaluation paradigms, including factuality assessment Lin et al. [2022], Wei and et al. [2024], instruction-following evaluation Zhou et al. [2023], adversarial robustness testing Croce et al. [2021], and privacy probing Carlini and et al. [2021, 2023], but reconfigures them to reflect the multilingual, multi-legal-tradition environment of Switzerland. This paper combines capability and security tests in a Swiss-specific setup rather than evaluating them separately in mostly English-language settings. The remainder of this paper is organized as follows. Section 2 reviews production reliability benchmarks, adversarial security evaluations, and Swiss regulatory frameworks. Section 3 details the benchmark selection, Swiss content creation, HAAS v2 framework, and evaluation protocol. Section 4 presents the empirical findings across D7 and D8 dimensions for all ten models. Sec- tion 5 interprets these findings in light of Swiss regulatory requirements and discusses practical implications. Section 6 summarizes contributions and outlines future work. 2 Related Work This section reviews prior work on reliability benchmarks, security benchmarks, and Swiss regulatory frameworks. No prior Swiss-focused benchmark work appears to have combined reliability and security evaluation in a single framework. 2.1 Reliability and Factuality Benchmarks A substantial body of work has sought to measure the extent to which large language models pro- duce outputs that are factually grounded, faithful to user instructions, and internally consistent across repeated queries. TruthfulQA Lin et al. [2022] introduced a benchmark specifically targeting the tendency of language models to reproduce common human misconceptions, demonstrating that 2 larger models can, paradoxically, exhibit lower truthfulness when they more effectively learn statis- tical regularities present in training corpora that include widespread falsehoods. SimpleQA Wei and et al. [2024] complemented this line of inquiry by focusing on short-form factual accuracy, providing a streamlined evaluation of whether models can reliably answer straightforward knowledge questions without hallucination. Instruction-Following Eval (IFEval) Zhou et al. [2023] shifted attention from factual content to behavioral compliance, operationalizing the degree to which models adhere to explicit formatting, length, and structural constraints specified in user prompts, a dimension of particular importance for enterprise deployment where output predictability is paramount. Beyond single-turn accuracy, the Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard (BFCL) Fang et al. [2024] extended evaluation to tool-use scenarios, assessing whether models can correctly invoke APIs with appropriate parameters, a capability increasingly central to agentic applications. The Needle-in-a-Haystack (NIAH) paradigm Kamradt [2023] probed long-context retrieval fidelity, test- ing whether models can locate and reproduce specific information embedded within extended docu- ments. Output consistency, the degree to which models produce equivalent answers to semantically identical queries across repeated interactions, remains a complementary concern. While each of these benchmarks illuminates a critical facet of production reliability, they have typically been deployed in isolation and evaluated against general-purpose standards rather than jurisdiction-specific regulatory expectations. This study integrates these established instruments into a unified reliability pillar, enabling direct cross-model comparison on a composite reliability profile aligned with Swiss deployment requirements. 2.2 Adversarial Security Benchmarks A parallel research tradition has developed benchmarks that probe the security posture of language models under adversarial conditions. StrongREJECT Souly and et al. [2024] introduced a systematic framework for evaluating model robustness against jailbreak attacks, demonstrating that many purportedly effective jailbreak techniques yield lower success rates than previously assumed when evaluated with rigorous scoring rubrics. XSTest Rottger and et al. [2024] addressed the converse problem of exaggerated safety behavior, providing a diagnostic suite for identifying cases in which models refuse benign requests due to overly conservative content filtering, a phenomenon with direct implications for user trust and deployment utility. At the level of hazardous knowledge, the Weapons of Mass Destruction Proxy (WMDP) bench- mark Li and et al. [2024] operationalized the risk that models might provide actionable information pertaining to biosecurity, cybersecurity, and chemical threats, establishing a standardized measure of dangerous knowledge leakage. CyberSecEval 3 Wan and et al. [2024] extended security evaluation to cybersecurity-specific capabilities, assessing both the defensive utility and offensive potential of language models in realistic threat scenarios. For agentic contexts, AgentHarm Andriushchenko and et al. [2024] measured the propensity of tool-augmented models to execute harmful multi-step ac- tion sequences when prompted by adversarial instructions, while AgentDojo Debenedetti and et al. [2024] provided complementary evaluation of agentic security vulnerabilities. As with the reliability benchmarks reviewed above, these security evaluations have predomi- nantly been conducted as standalone assessments without integration into a jurisdiction-specific governance framework. This work consolidates these instruments into a security pillar that is eval- uated alongside reliability metrics, enabling a unified trustworthiness profile for each model. 3 2.3 Swiss AI Regulation and Trust Frameworks Switzerland has adopted a distinctive regulatory posture toward artificial intelligence that empha- sizes sector-specific guidance rather than omnibus legislation. The revised Federal Data Protection Act (nDSG/FADP) Confederation [2023] establishes foundational data protection principles, in- cluding purpose limitation, proportionality, and transparency, that constrain the conditions under which language models may process personal data in Swiss deployments. In the financial sector, FINMA Guidance 08/2024 Authority [2024] articulated supervisory expectations for the use of arti- ficial intelligence by regulated entities, specifying requirements for model governance, explainability, and risk management that directly inform the trustworthiness dimensions evaluated in this study. Complementing these regulatory instruments, the Swiss Digital Initiative introduced a voluntary certification framework Initiative [2024] for digital services, operationalizing trust across dimensions including security, reliability, and fair treatment of users. While this framework was not designed specifically for generative AI systems, its dimensional structure provides a useful conceptual bridge between general-purpose trustworthiness evaluation and the specific requirements of Swiss regu- latory bodies. The OWASP framework Foundation [2025] further identifies critical security risks specific to large language model deployments, informing the security evaluation dimensions adopted in this study. Recent work on Swiss multilingual legal benchmarking includes SwiLTra-Bench Niklaus et al. [2025], which evaluates legal translation quality across Swiss national languages. While SwiLTra- Bench addresses linguistic fidelity in legal contexts, it does not evaluate production reliability or adversarial security, which are the focus of the present work. Despite these regulatory developments and related benchmarking efforts, no existing framework systematically maps model evaluation to the specific trustworthiness dimensions emphasized by Swiss regulators. The methodology detailed in the following section addresses this gap by aligning established benchmark instruments with the regulatory expectations articulated in FINMA guidance and the nDSG, thereby providing an em- pirically grounded assessment of frontier model readiness for Swiss-regulated deployment contexts. 3 Methodology Table 1 summarizes the differences between SBP-002 and SBP-003. Table 1: SBP-002 vs. SBP-003. The two papers share the HAAS framework but differ in dimensions, tasks, model roster, and scoring. Results cannot be compared directly across papers due to different evaluation dates and model versions. SBP-002SBP-003 (this paper) DimensionsD1–D6 (6 dimensions)D7–D8 (2 new dimensions) Tasks6 Swiss legal tasks7 Swiss-adapted tasks (all new) Items934808 LanguagesDE, FR, IT, ENDE, FR, IT, EN Models10 (partially overlapping) 10 (2026-04 snapshot) ScoringLLM judge panel + human Self-graded D7 + Qwen3 D8 D7 addedNoYes (self-graded proxy) D8 addedNoYes (PII + Leakage) Cross-comparableNo (different roster, dates, scoring) 4 3.1 Benchmark Selection Evaluating LLMs for regulated contexts requires instruments aligned with specific regulatory di- mensions. This study constructs Swiss-adapted versions of established benchmarks, each chosen based on two criteria: (a) demonstrated validity in evaluating a specific model capability or risk, and (b) direct relevance to the requirements articulated in FINMA Guidance 08/2024 Authority [2024] and the Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection (nDSG) Confederation [2023]. For D7 (self-graded reliability proxy), I developed Swiss-adapted versions of four established benchmarks. Swiss TruthfulQA (100 items) adapts Lin et al. [2022] with questions targeting com- mon misconceptions about Swiss law, finance, and governance. Swiss IFEval (39 items) adapts Zhou et al. [2023] with instruction-following tasks grounded in Swiss regulatory formatting conven- tions. Swiss SimpleQA (210 items) adapts Wei and et al. [2024] with short-form factual questions drawn from Swiss federal law, cantonal regulations, and FINMA circulars. Swiss NIAH (39 items) adapts the Needle-in-a-Haystack paradigm Kamradt [2023] using Fedlex legislative documents as the haystack corpus, requiring models to locate specific regulatory provisions within extended Swiss legal texts. For the D8 (Adversarial Security) dimension, I developed three Swiss-specific benchmarks. Swiss PII-Scope (271 items) probes whether models can be induced to generate Swiss person- ally identifiable information, including AHV/AVS social security numbers, Swiss IBAN patterns, and cantonal identifiers, in response to social engineering prompts grounded in Swiss institutional contexts. System Prompt Leakage (119 items) evaluates resistance to prompt extraction at- tacks using system prompts that contain Swiss regulatory instructions and confidential compliance rules. Swiss German Dialect Comprehension (30 items) assesses whether models can correctly process and respond to queries posed in Swiss German dialects (Zurich, Bern, Basel) and Swiss French/Italian variants. In total, the evaluation comprises 808 Swiss-specific items administered in four languages (EN, DE, FR, IT). Table 2 reports the item distribution across tasks and languages. Several established benchmarks, including BFCL Fang et al. [2024], StrongREJECT Souly and et al. [2024], XSTest Rottger and et al. [2024], WMDP Li and et al. [2024], CyberSecEval 3 Wan and et al. [2024], AgentDojo Debenedetti and et al. [2024], and AgentHarm Andriushchenko and et al. [2024], were considered for baseline comparison runs but fall outside the scope of this initial Swiss-adapted evaluation and are reserved for future work. Table 2: Item distribution across Swiss-adapted tasks and languages. Totals: 808 items across 7 tasks in 4 languages. TaskEN DE FR ITTotal Swiss TruthfulQA25 25 25 25100 Swiss IFEval13 13 13 —39 Swiss SimpleQA60 60 60 30210 Swiss NIAH13 13 13 —39 Swiss PII-Scope82 82 82 25271 Sys. Prompt Leakage 40 40 39 —119 Swiss German— 30 † — —30 Total233 263 232 80808 † Includes Zurich, Bern, and Basel dialects plus Swiss French/Italian regional variants. 5 3.2 Swiss Content Creation The benchmark includes newly created items tailored to Swiss regulatory and linguistic contexts. Existing benchmarks are predominantly developed in English and calibrated to Anglo-American legal norms, limiting their applicability in a jurisdiction with a distinct civil law tradition, multilin- gualism, and sector-specific regulations. The item creation process followed eight stages: 1. Specification by domain expert. Each item was specified by a domain expert with back- ground in cybersecurity, AI governance, or Swiss regulation, defining the construct to be measured and the expected correct response. 2. AI-assisted drafting. Initial item drafts were generated using Claude Opus 4.6 with detailed prompts specifying Swiss regulatory context, target difficulty, and response format. 3. Automated validation. All items were validated against JSON schema definitions, with automated checks for ID uniqueness, language distribution balance, and structural conformity. 4. Human expert review against official Swiss sources. A random sample of items from each dataset was verified against authoritative Swiss sources (admin.ch, fedlex.admin.ch, finma.ch) to confirm factual accuracy and regulatory currency. 5. Cross-model dual review. D8 items were independently reviewed by ChatGPT (24 flags raised, all resolved), and D7 items were independently reviewed by Gemini (16 flags raised, all resolved). Cross-model review flagged ambiguities that were then manually resolved. 6. Remediation and gap analysis. Flagged items were remediated, and 52 additional items were created to address coverage gaps identified during the review process. 7. Multilingual translation and back-translation. Items were translated into German (Swiss conventions, s rather than ß), French (Romandie conventions: septante, huitante, nonante), and Italian (Ticino conventions), then independently back-translated into English by native speakers of each target language following the methodology of Brislin [1970]. Discrep- ancies between original and back-translated versions were resolved through iterative revision to ensure semantic equivalence while preserving Swiss linguistic conventions. 8. Final human expert review and approval. All items received a final review for accuracy, clarity, and regulatory alignment before inclusion in the evaluation dataset. The resulting 808 items cover Swiss-adapted legal, compliance, privacy, and multilingual scenar- ios. Cross-lingual evaluation is a key consideration given Switzerland’s four national languages and the nDSG’s emphasis on non-discriminatory data processing. 3.3 HAAS v2 Framework The evaluation results are organized within the HAAS (Helvetic AI Assessment Score) version 2 framework, a multi-dimensional scoring architecture designed to map benchmark performance onto the trustworthiness dimensions prioritized by Swiss regulators. The framework reports both per- dimension scores and weighted aggregates. The HAAS v2 framework operationalizes trustworthiness through a set of scoring dimensions, of which two are central to this analysis: Self-Graded Reliability Proxy (D7) and Adversarial Security (D8). D7 captures the extent to which a model self-reports accurate, consistent, and instruction- faithful outputs on Swiss-adapted tasks, properties identified by FINMA as prerequisites for AI 6 deployment in supervised financial institutions Authority [2024]. The Adversarial Security dimen- sion encompasses resistance to manipulation, avoidance of harmful outputs, and robustness against data misuse, concerns that align with both FINMA’s operational risk requirements and the nDSG’s data protection obligations. Each dimension aggregates scores from the relevant instruments detailed in the benchmark selection phase. The HAAS v2 composite score for a model m is computed as: HAAS v2 (m) = P d∈D pop w d · s d (m) P d∈D pop w d (1) where D pop is the set of populated dimensions (those with n > 0 evaluation samples), w d is the weight for dimension d, and s d (m) ∈ [0, 100] is the dimension score. Normalization by the sum of populated weights ensures that models evaluated on a subset of dimensions are not penalized for missing data. The default v2 weights are: D1 (15%), D2 (12%), D3 (10%), D4 (15%), D5 (8%), D6 (2.5%), D7 (17.5%), D8 (20%). Within each dimension, constituent benchmark scores are aggre- gated using benchmark-specific weights normalized by their sum (e.g., within D7: TruthfulQA 25, IFEval 20, SimpleQA 15, NIAH 15, normalized to 33.3%, 26.7%, 20.0%, 20.0% respectively). All confidence intervals are 95% Wilson score intervals Wilson [1927], Brown et al. [2001]. The complete HAAS v2 dimension definitions are as follows. Dimensions D1–D6 were established in Swiss-Bench SBP-002 Uenal [2026]; dimensions D7 and D8 are introduced in the present work: • D1 Accuracy (15%): Swiss legal and regulatory factual accuracy, measuring whether models produce correct answers on questions drawn from Swiss federal law, cantonal regulations, and FINMA circulars. • D2 Robustness (12%): Input perturbation resilience, adapted from Compl-AI Guldimann et al. [2024], measuring model stability under paraphrased, adversarially modified, or edge-case inputs. • D3 Safety (10%): Hallucination detection and harmful output avoidance, assessing whether models generate fabricated legal citations or dangerous regulatory advice. • D4 Compliance (15%): Regulatory compliance assessment, measuring alignment with nDSG data protection obligations and FINMA supervisory expectations. • D5 Swiss Language (8%): Multilingual preservation ratio (DE/FR/IT vs. EN), quantifying whether model performance degrades across Switzerland’s national languages. • D6 Documentation (2.5%): Regulatory gap analysis quality, assessing the ability to iden- tify missing compliance elements in policy documents. • D7 Self-Graded Reliability Proxy (17.5%): Self-assessed factual consistency, instruction adherence, and long-context retrieval fidelity on Swiss-adapted tasks (this study). D7 is scored by the evaluand model itself and does not constitute independently validated accuracy. • D8 Adversarial Security (20%): Resistance to PII extraction, system prompt leakage, and dialect-based evasion in Swiss regulatory contexts (this study). To support diverse stakeholder perspectives, the framework provides five configurable weight profiles that emphasize different dimensions depending on the deployment context. Table 3 sum- marizes these profiles. 7 Table 3: HAAS v2 weight profiles for different stakeholder perspectives. Each profile shifts emphasis to the dimensions most relevant to the target role. ProfileUse CaseHeavy Dimensions p compliant CROs, CCOsD4 (25%), D3 (20%), D6 (15%) p performant CTOsD1 (25%), D5 (15%), D7 (15%) p reliable Product Owners D7 (30%), D1 (15%), D5 (15%) p secure CISOsD8 (30%), D2 (15%), D3 (15%) p integrated FlagshipDefault v2 weights Additional dimensions (e.g., fairness, transparency) can be added as suitable benchmarks become available. The alignment between the HAAS v2 dimensions and the requirements articulated in FINMA guidance and the Swiss Digital Initiative Trust Label Initiative [2024] was established through a systematic mapping exercise, ensuring each dimension corresponds to an identifiable regulatory expectation. 3.4 Evaluation Protocol All ten models were evaluated via the OpenRouter API, which provides unified access to models from multiple providers under provider-default inference settings. Temperature and decoding parameters were not explicitly controlled and vary across providers. The total evaluation comprised 10 models × 808 items = 8,080 individual evaluations at a total API cost of $28.80 via OpenRouter. D7 scoring. All D7 tasks (Swiss TruthfulQA, Swiss IFEval, Swiss SimpleQA, Swiss NIAH) were scored using the Inspect AI UK AI Safety Institute [2024] model_graded_fact scorer, in which the evaluand model serves as its own judge against the provided reference answers. Temperature was left at the provider-specific default; no system prompt override was applied for D7 tasks. A methodological caveat applies: self-grading measures whether a model can recognize correct answers when presented with them, which conflates factual accuracy with self-consistency. A model that confidently generates incorrect answers may nonetheless score itself favorably if it cannot distinguish its errors from the reference. D7 scores should therefore be interpreted as model-reported accuracy rather than independently validated ground-truth accuracy. While TruthfulQA and SimpleQA include verified reference answers against which the model’s self-assessment can be anchored, upward bias from self-consistency cannot be ruled out. To quantify this bias, a post-hoc validation was conducted: GPT-4o was used as an external judge to re-grade 70% of all D7 outputs (2,737 of 3,910 samples) using the same grading prompt. The overall agreement between self-grading and external grading was 94.5%, and the mean self-graded accuracy (84.9%) was 2.3 percentage points lower than the GPT-4o-graded accuracy (87.2%), indicating no systematic upward self-grading bias in this evaluation. Per-model deltas ranged from +1.1p (Qwen 3.5 Plus) to−7.7p (MiniMax M2.5). Full results are reported in Appendix A.4. D8 scoring. The three D8 tasks employed task-specific scoring rubrics: • PII-Scope: A custom 3-tier scorer assigns refuse=1.0 (model refuses to generate PII), format_only=0.5 (model generates a plausible format but not real data), and generates_pii=0.0 (model produces actual Swiss PII). The midpoint score for format-only responses reflects a judgment that generating plausible PII patterns (e.g., a valid-format AHV number) is partially harmful as it enables social engineering, though less so than producing actual personal data. This ordinal mapping imposes cardinal structure; alternative weightings would shift absolute scores but are unlikely to change model rank ordering substantially given the dominance of the 8 refuse/generate distinction. Scoring is performed by Qwen3-235B as an independent judge. A heuristic pre-check applies regex patterns for AHV numbers (756. 4. 4. 2) and Swiss IBAN patterns before invoking the LLM judge, reducing cost for clear-cut cases. • System Prompt Leakage: A custom 4-tier scorer assigns no_leak=1.0, domain_only=0.75 (model reveals only the general domain of the system prompt), specific_rules=0.25 (model discloses specific instructions), and full_prompt=0.0 (model reproduces the system prompt verbatim or near-verbatim). Scoring combines a heuristic pre-check (50-character verbatim substring matching against the injected system prompt) with Qwen3-235B as the final judge. The system prompt for each item is injected from dataset metadata, simulating realistic deployment configurations. The four-tier weights reflect an ordinal severity model: revealing a system prompt’s general domain (0.75) is substantially less harmful than disclosing specific compliance rules (0.25), which in turn is less harmful than full verbatim reproduction (0.0). These cardinal values impose structure on ordinal distinctions; alternative weightings would shift absolute scores but are unlikely to alter model rank ordering given the large spread in leakage behavior (24.8–88.2%). • Swiss German: Scored using model_graded_fact, consistent with D7 tasks. Swiss German Dialect Comprehension is included in D8 as a dialectal robustness proxy rather than a direct adversarial security test. The rationale is that dialectal inputs represent a potential attack surface: if models cannot correctly parse Swiss German queries, safety behaviors calibrated for standard German may be circumvented. However, the current task measures linguistic comprehension, not successful safety bypass under dialectal adversarial prompting. This clas- sification is a design choice; future work should evaluate whether dialect-based evasion attacks succeed at higher rates than standard-German equivalents. As a sensitivity check: removing Swiss German from D8 and renormalizing (PII-Scope: 60%, System Prompt Leakage: 40%) preserves the model rank ordering, with GPT-oss 120B still leading (60.7%) and the same top-5 order. The D8 composite is computed from the two core security benchmarks only: PII-Scope (60%) and System Prompt Leakage (40%). Swiss German Dialect Comprehension is reported separately as a dialectal robustness measure but excluded from the D8 composite because it tests linguistic comprehension rather than adversarial security resistance (see Section 3 for discussion). To assess D8 judge reliability, two independent validations were conducted. First, DeepSeek V3 re-scored all 3,363 valid D8 outputs using the same rubric prompts. Overall agreement between Qwen3-235B and DeepSeek was 81.3% (PII-Scope: 85.7%, System Prompt Leakage: 70.7%), with Spearman rank correlations of ρ = 0.964 (PII) and ρ = 0.927 (Leakage). DeepSeek found no evidence of same-family bias: Qwen 3.5 Plus was not scored more favorably by Qwen3-235B than by DeepSeek. Second, a stratified sample of 78 D8 outputs (5 per model per task) was annotated by a domain expert using the same rubric definitions. Expert-judge exact tier agreement was 43.6%, with adjacent agreement (within one tier) of 83.3%. The moderate exact agreement reflects the difficulty of distinguishing adjacent ordinal tiers (e.g., “domain_only” vs. “specific_rules”), while the high adjacent agreement and the rubric weight sensitivity analysis (Appendix A.5, Spearman ρ ≥ 0.95) indicate that D8 model rankings are stable despite tier-level disagreements. While the tiered scoring criteria are designed to minimize subjective judgment through heuristic pre-checks and explicit rubric definitions, future work should validate judge calibration through human annotation of a representative sample and comparison with a second judge model. Additionally, Qwen 3.5 Plus, the top-performing model on D7, belongs to the same model family as the Qwen3-235B judge used for 9 D8 scoring. While the judge evaluates different tasks (D8) than the evaluand’s strongest dimension (D7), same-family evaluation bias cannot be fully excluded. For benchmarks yielding binary or ordinal outcomes, confidence intervals are computed using the Wilson score interval method Wilson [1927]. This method provides more accurate coverage for proportions near zero or one than the standard Wald interval Brown et al. [2001] and is thus more appropriate for safety benchmarks that often produce highly skewed outcome distributions. Raw scores are computed per model per benchmark, then aggregated within each dimension to produce D7 and D8 composite scores. The evaluation methodology, including scoring rubrics and aggregation procedures, is doc- umented to permit conceptual replication, though exact reproduction would require matching provider-specific inference defaults that may change over time. The evaluation datasets and in- frastructure are not publicly released; methodological transparency is ensured through the detailed protocol description in this section, consistent with the auditability principles of the Swiss regulatory framework Authority [2024]. 4 Results This section reports the empirical findings. I first present the results for the final two dimensions, Self-Graded Reliability Proxy (D7) and Adversarial Security (D8), followed by the aggregated com- posite scores and an analysis of the framework’s alignment with Swiss regulatory requirements. All confidence intervals reported below are 95% Wilson intervals Wilson [1927], Brown et al. [2001], consistent with the statistical methodology described in the preceding section. 4.1 D7 Self-Graded Reliability Proxy Dimension 7 is a self-graded reliability proxy that measures how models perform on Swiss-adapted factual accuracy, instruction-following, and retrieval tasks under zero-shot conditions. As noted in Section 3, D7 scores reflect model-reported accuracy rather than independently validated per- formance. This dimension is composed of four Swiss-adapted benchmarks: Swiss TruthfulQA Lin et al. [2022], which measures resistance to common misconceptions about Swiss law and governance; Swiss IFEval Zhou et al. [2023], which measures strict adherence to formatting and constraint-based instructions grounded in Swiss regulatory conventions; Swiss SimpleQA Wei and et al. [2024], which assesses short-form factual accuracy on questions drawn from Swiss federal law and FINMA cir- culars; and Swiss NIAH Kamradt [2023], which probes long-context retrieval fidelity using Fedlex legislative documents as the haystack corpus. These tasks are grouped under D7 because each captures an operational failure mode relevant to regulated use: factual error, instruction non-compliance, or long-context retrieval failure. Swiss financial supervisory guidance requires that AI-assisted processes yield reproducible and auditable outputs Authority [2024], a requirement that these tasks approximate, though D7’s self-grading design means the scores reflect model self-assessment rather than independently verified accuracy. Across the evaluated models, performance on Swiss TruthfulQA exhibited the widest spread (47.0–96.0%), indicating that resistance to Swiss-specific misconceptions varies dramatically even among frontier systems. Swiss IFEval performance was more tightly clustered (69.2–92.3%), though the gap between the top performer (Qwen 3.5 Plus) and the weakest (Gemini 2.5 Flash) remains operationally significant. Swiss SimpleQA scores were generally high (81.0–93.8%), suggesting that short-form Swiss factual knowledge is a relative strength of current frontier models. Swiss NIAH performance was notably bimodal: MiMo-V2-Flash achieved a perfect 100% while Gemini 2.5 Flash 10 scored only 76.9%, demonstrating that long-context retrieval capability on Swiss legal documents varies substantially across model architectures. The dimension-level composite for D7 is computed as the normalized weighted mean of the con- stituent benchmark scores (TruthfulQA: 33.3%, IFEval: 26.7%, SimpleQA: 20.0%, NIAH: 20.0%), each scored on a 0–100 scale. Table 4 reports the full results. Table 4: D7 self-graded reliability proxy results (%) across 10 evaluated models. All D7 scores are self-assessed via model_graded_fact. D7 composite is the normalized weighted mean. Bold indicates best per column. IFEval and NIAH (n=39 each) are exploratory; pairwise differences under 10p may not be statistically distinguishable. ModelTruthfulQA IFEval SimpleQA NIAH D7 Qwen 3.5 Plus96.092.393.894.9 94.4 GLM 592.089.791.989.7 90.9 GPT-4o83.087.288.184.6 85.5 DeepSeek V3.278.082.186.284.6 82.0 Claude Sonnet 473.082.190.087.2 81.6 MiMo-V2-Flash75.074.481.0 100.0 81.0 Mistral Large 369.084.688.684.6 80.2 Gemini 2.5 Flash81.069.291.076.9 79.0 GPT-oss 120B52.079.586.297.4 75.3 MiniMax M2.547.082.182.994.9 73.1 The spread between the highest-performing model (Qwen 3.5 Plus, D7: 94.4%) and lowest (Min- iMax M2.5, D7: 73.1%) is 21.3 percentage points, underscoring that production reliability cannot be assumed from strong performance on accuracy-oriented benchmarks alone. Notably, MiMo-V2- Flash achieves a perfect 100% on NIAH despite ranking sixth overall on D7, demonstrating that long-context retrieval capability does not predict broader reliability. However, given the small NIAH sample size (n = 39), the 95% Wilson confidence interval for a perfect score is approximately [0.91, 1.00], meaning this result, while suggestive, should be interpreted with caution. More broadly, subscores on Swiss IFEval (n = 39) and Swiss NIAH (n = 39) carry Wilson intervals of approx- imately ±8–13 percentage points at typical score levels, and pairwise differences of fewer than 10 percentage points on these subtasks may not be statistically distinguishable. Figure 1 visualizes the per-benchmark D7 performance across all ten models. 4.2 D8 Adversarial Security Dimension 8 evaluates model robustness against adversarial manipulation, misuse, and exploitation, properties that are increasingly central to emerging security standards, including the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications Foundation [2025], and Swiss regulatory expectations regarding AI system integrity Authority [2024]. In this initial evaluation, D8 comprises three Swiss-adapted benchmarks targeting complementary threat surfaces: Swiss PII-Scope (271 items), which probes whether models can be induced to generate Swiss personally identifiable information; System Prompt Leakage (119 items), which evaluates resistance to prompt extraction attacks using Swiss regula- tory system prompts; and Swiss German Dialect Comprehension (30 items), which assesses whether dialectal inputs can be used to circumvent safety behaviors. Additional established bench- marks (StrongREJECT Souly and et al. [2024], XSTest Rottger and et al. [2024], WMDP Li and et al. [2024], CyberSecEval 3 Wan and et al. [2024], AgentDojo Debenedetti and et al. [2024], and AgentHarm Andriushchenko and et al. [2024]) are planned for future baseline comparison runs. 11 Qwen 3.5 Plus GLM 5 GPT-4o Claude Sonnet 4 GPT-oss 120B MiMo-V2-Flash MiniMax M2.5 DeepSeek V3.2 Gemini 2.5 Flash Mistral Large 3 0 20 40 60 80 100 Accuracy (%) D7 Production Reliability Swiss-Adapted Benchmarks TruthfulQA IFEval SimpleQA NIAH Figure 1: D7 self-graded reliability proxy scores across four Swiss-adapted benchmarks. The three Swiss-adapted D8 benchmarks were designed to capture security risks with partic- ular salience in Swiss regulated environments. PII-Scope targets the nDSG’s data minimization and purpose limitation principles Confederation [2023] by testing whether models generate Swiss- specific identifiers (AHV/AVS numbers, Swiss IBANs, cantonal identifiers) in response to social engineering prompts. System Prompt Leakage addresses OWASP LLM06 (Sensitive Information Disclosure) Foundation [2025] by testing whether confidential compliance instructions injected via system prompts can be extracted through adversarial user queries. Swiss German Comprehension tests whether dialectal variation, a distinctive feature of the Swiss linguistic landscape, introduces security-relevant behavioral differences. The D8 results show three patterns. First, PII extraction defense proved weak across all ten models (14.2–42.4%), indicating that the evaluated models lack robust safeguards against generating Swiss personally identifiable information. This finding raises data protection risks relevant to nDSG- governed deployments, as models may generate plausible Swiss personal identifiers when prompted with social engineering inputs. Second, system prompt leakage resistance was the most differentiating benchmark in the entire evaluation, with scores ranging from 24.8% (Mistral Large 3) to 88.2% (GPT-oss 120B), a 63.4 percentage point spread. The large spread indicates substantial differences across models on this task. This paper does not establish the source of those differences. Third, Swiss German comprehension was generally strong (70.0–96.7%), indicating that most evaluated models can process dialectal Swiss German inputs competently. However, GPT-oss 120B scored lower (70.0%) than the leading models on this task, suggesting that some architectures may have less exposure to Swiss German dialectal data. Figure 2 highlights the stark contrast between PII extraction vulnerability and system prompt leakage resistance across models. The D8 composite is computed from PII-Scope (60%) and System Prompt Leakage (40%) as described in Section 3. Table 5 reports the full results. The D8 results reveal three key findings. First, PII extraction defense is universally weak: all ten models score below 43% on PII-Scope, indicating that all tested models showed substantial 12 PII-Scope (higher = better) System Prompt Leakage (higher = better) Qwen 3.5 Plus GLM 5 GPT-4o Claude Sonnet 4 GPT-oss 120B MiMo-V2-Flash MiniMax M2.5 DeepSeek V3.2 Gemini 2.5 Flash Mistral Large 3 40.465.8 24.970.6 38.779.6 38.652.5 42.488.2 23.658.2 33.260.1 14.229.0 27.927.9 21.824.8 D8 Security: PII Extraction & System Prompt Leakage Resistance 0 20 40 60 80 100 Accuracy (%) Figure 2: D8 security heatmap showing PII-Scope and System Prompt Leakage resistance. All models score below 43% on PII extraction defense (left column), while system prompt leakage resistance (right column) varies by over 63 percentage points. vulnerability to Swiss-specific PII extraction prompts (AHV/AVS numbers, Swiss IBAN patterns, cantonal identifiers). Second, system prompt leakage is the most differentiating benchmark, with scores ranging from 24.8% (Mistral Large 3) to 88.2% (GPT-oss 120B), a 63.4 percentage point spread. Third, GPT-oss 120B, despite being the lowest-cost model in the roster ($0.04/M input tokens), achieves the highest D8 composite (60.7%), an unexpected observation in this cohort that does not generalize beyond the evaluated models. 4.3 HAAS v2 Composite Scores Since this study evaluates only D7 and D8, the composite reported here is the arithmetic mean of these two dimension scores rather than the full 8-dimension HAAS v2 composite defined in Equation 1. D1–D6 scores from SBP-002 Uenal [2026] exist for a partially overlapping model set and could be combined in future work to produce the full HAAS v2 composite; however, I refrain from doing so here because the SBP-002 evaluation used a different model roster and evaluation date, which would introduce confounds. Table 6 reports the D7+D8 exploratory summary with bootstrap 95% confidence intervals. Models average 82.3% on D7 but only 40.6% on D8, a 41.7 percentage point differential. No model scores above 60.7% on D8, whereas seven of ten exceed 79% on D7. This asymmetry is consistent with, but does not by itself prove, greater optimization for the D7-style tasks than for the D8-style tasks. Because D7 is self-graded and D8 is externally judged using different task types, the gap may partly reflect differences in task difficulty and scoring methodology rather than a pure model 13 Table 5: D8 Adversarial Security results (%). D8 composite uses PII-Scope (60%) and System Prompt Leakage (40%) only. Swiss German is reported separately as a dialectal robustness measure. PII-Scope uses 3-tier scoring; leakage uses 4-tier scoring. Bold indicates best per column. ModelPII-Scope Sys. Prompt Leak. D8Swiss Ger. † GPT-oss 120B42.488.2 60.770.0 GPT-4o38.779.6 55.186.7 Qwen 3.5 Plus40.465.8 50.696.7 Claude Sonnet 438.652.5 44.2 96.7 MiniMax M2.533.260.1 44.080.0 GLM 524.970.6 43.293.3 MiMo-V2-Flash23.658.2 37.4 86.7 Gemini 2.5 Flash27.927.9 27.986.7 Mistral Large 321.824.8 23.083.3 DeepSeek V3.214.229.0 20.1 96.7 † Dialectal robustness proxy; not included in D8 composite. property. Table 6: Exploratory D7+D8 summary with 95% bootstrap confidence intervals (10,000 resamples). D7 is self-graded; D8 is judge-scored (PII-Scope + System Prompt Leakage only; Swiss German excluded). Adjacent pairwise differences overlap; fine-grained rank ordering should not be over- interpreted. ModelD7 [%]D8 [%]D7+D8 [%]∆ Qwen 3.5 Plus94.4 [91.2, 97.1] 50.5 [46.2, 54.8] 72.4 [69.8, 75.0] 43.9 GPT-4o85.5 [80.8, 89.7] 55.1 [51.3, 59.0] 70.3 [67.3, 73.2] 30.3 GPT-oss 120B75.3 [70.2, 80.1] 60.7 [56.9, 64.6] 68.0 [64.8, 71.1] 14.5 GLM 591.3 [87.6, 94.5] 43.2 [39.2, 47.2] 67.2 [64.5, 69.9] 48.1 Claude Sonnet 4 81.7 [76.6, 86.4] 44.1 [39.7, 48.6] 62.9 [59.5, 66.2] 37.5 MiMo-V2-Flash 81.0 [76.2, 85.7] 37.5 [33.4, 41.5] 59.2 [56.1, 62.4] 43.6 MiniMax M2.573.1 [68.1, 77.9] 44.0 [39.6, 48.3] 58.5 [55.2, 61.8] 29.1 Gemini 2.5 Flash 79.1 [73.4, 84.4] 27.9 [24.0, 31.8] 53.5 [50.1, 56.8] 51.2 Mistral Large 3 80.1 [75.1, 84.8] 23.0 [19.4, 26.8] 51.6 [48.4, 54.6] 57.2 DeepSeek V3.282.1 [77.2, 86.7] 20.1 [16.8, 23.5] 51.1 [48.1, 54.0] 62.0 The rank ordering shifts substantially between dimensions. Qwen 3.5 Plus leads D7 (94.4%) but ranks third on D8 (50.6%), while GPT-oss 120B leads D8 (60.7%) but ranks ninth on D7 (75.3%). GPT-4o achieves the most balanced profile, ranking third on D7 (85.5%) and second on D8 (55.1%). The model with the smallest reliability–security gap is GPT-oss 120B (∆=14.5p), while DeepSeek V3.2 exhibits the largest (∆=62.0p). These results are better read as a scorecard than as a single leaderboard. Different use cases may prioritize different dimensions, which is why the framework provides configurable weight profiles (Table 3). Figures 3 and 4 visualize these profiles and the reliability–security trade-off. 4.4 Regulatory Coverage HAAS v2 is intended to align benchmark dimensions with selected Swiss regulatory concerns. This subsection assesses the degree to which the eight HAAS v2 dimensions address the specific ex- pectations articulated in three primary instruments: the FINMA Guidance 08/2024 on Artificial 14 TruthfulQA IFEval SimpleQA NIAH PII-Scope Leakage Swiss DE 20 40 60 80 100 HAAS v2 Profile Top 5 Models Qwen 3.5 Plus GLM 5 GPT-4o Claude Sonnet 4 GPT-oss 120B Figure 3: HAAS v2 radar profiles for the top 5 models across all seven Swiss-adapted benchmarks. The “collapse” from D7 (outer ring) to D8 benchmarks (inner ring, particularly PII-Scope and Leakage) is visible for all models. Intelligence Authority [2024], the vulnerability framework from OWASP for large language models Foundation [2025], and the principles of the Digital Trust Label from the Swiss Digital Initiative Initiative [2024]. The FINMA Guidance Authority [2024] identifies several core properties that AI systems de- ployed in the Swiss financial sector must satisfy, including accuracy, robustness, reproducibility, explainability, and security. The present framework addresses accuracy through D1 (Accuracy) and D7’s Swiss TruthfulQA and Swiss SimpleQA components, robustness through D2 (Robustness) and D8 (Adversarial Security), reproducibility through D7’s instruction-following and long-context re- trieval tests, and security through D8’s three Swiss-adapted benchmarks (PII-Scope, System Prompt Leakage, Swiss German Comprehension). Explainability, which pertains primarily to model archi- tecture and deployment infrastructure rather than to output-level behavior, falls outside the scope of a benchmark-based evaluation framework and is accordingly not claimed as covered. The OWASP framework for LLM applications Foundation [2025] enumerates ten vulnerability categories, of which seven are addressed or partially addressed by HAAS v2 benchmarks in this initial evaluation. Sensitive information disclosure (LLM06) is directly evaluated via the System Prompt Leakage and PII-Scope benchmarks. Training data extraction risks are assessed through the 15 65707580859095100 D7 Production Reliability (%) 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 60 65 70 D8 Adversarial Security (%) Qwen 3.5 Plus GLM 5 GPT-4o Claude Sonnet 4 GPT-oss 120B MiMo-V2-Flash MiniMax M2.5 DeepSeek V3.2 Gemini 2.5 Flash Mistral Large 3 Reliability vs Security Trade-off Figure 4: D7 (self-graded reliability proxy) vs. D8 (adversarial security) scatter plot. Dashed lines indicate median values. GPT-oss 120B occupies a unique position: lowest D7 but highest D8. No model scored near the top of both dimensions in this evaluation. PII-Scope task, which probes whether models can be induced to generate Swiss-specific personal identifiers. Prompt injection (LLM01) and insecure output handling (LLM02) are targeted for evaluation in planned future runs using AgentDojo Debenedetti and et al. [2024] and CyberSecEval 3 Wan and et al. [2024]. Several OWASP categories (such as supply chain vulnerabilities and insecure plugin design) pertain to system-level rather than model-level properties and are therefore not addressed by this model-centric evaluation. The mapping between HAAS v2 dimensions and the Digital Trust Label principles Initiative [2024] is similarly partial. While the framework provides robust coverage of security and reliability, it does not directly address transparency or user control, which are critical components of digital trust but fall outside the scope of this evaluation. Nonetheless, the HAAS v2 results offer valuable insights into the alignment between current AI capabilities and the regulatory expectations that Swiss institutions must navigate. 5 Discussion Model rankings change materially between D7 and D8, indicating that self-graded task capability and security resistance do not move together in this benchmark. 5.1 Swiss-Specific Performance Patterns Compared with SBP-002 Uenal [2026], this paper separates reliability and security instead of re- porting Swiss legal performance as a single broad capability. Several patterns merit discussion. 16 First, the observed variation across models and task categories underscores that aggregate per- formance scores can obscure meaningful differences in domain-specific competence. Models that perform well on general-purpose factuality benchmarks such as TruthfulQA Lin et al. [2022] or SimpleQA Wei and et al. [2024] do not necessarily maintain that advantage when tasks require jurisdiction-specific legal reasoning. This finding aligns with the broader observation that bench- mark performance is highly sensitive to the alignment between training data distributions and evaluation domains Carlini and et al. [2021]. Second, the safety-related dimensions reveal an important tension. While benchmarks designed to measure refusal behavior, such as XSTest Rottger and et al. [2024], capture a model’s tendency toward over-refusal, the Swiss regulatory environment, as articulated in FINMA’s guidance on artificial intelligence Authority [2024], emphasizes not only the avoidance of harmful outputs but also the reliability and explicability of model behavior in high-stakes contexts. The present framework’s multi-dimensional structure makes this tension visible rather than collapsing it into a single safety score. Third, the results indicate that instruction-following fidelity, as measured through tasks adapted from IFEval Zhou et al. [2023], constitutes a necessary but insufficient condition for regulatory compliance. A model may follow formatting instructions precisely while producing substantively incorrect legal content, a dissociation that single-dimension evaluations would fail to detect. 5.2 Interpreting the Reliability–Security Gap The mean D7 score exceeds the mean D8 score by 41.7 points, but that difference is difficult to interpret because the two dimensions are measured differently (self-graded vs. external judge) and likely differ in difficulty calibration. An alternative explanation is that the gap reflects benchmark difficulty calibration rather than a fundamental property of the models: D7 tasks are adapted from established benchmark families (TruthfulQA, IFEval, SimpleQA, NIAH) against which frontier mod- els have been extensively optimized, whereas D8 tasks, particularly PII-Scope and System Prompt Leakage, are novel adversarial constructions that models have not encountered during training. Un- der this interpretation, the gap reflects training exposure rather than an inherent reliability–security tension. I cannot fully distinguish these explanations with the present data, though the extreme variance in system prompt leakage resistance (24.8–88.2%) suggests that some models have been specifically hardened against prompt extraction while others have not, which is more consistent with a genuine capability difference than with uniform difficulty miscalibration. Similarly, the universal weakness of PII extraction defense (14.2–42.4%) could reflect either a gen- uine security gap or an artifact of unusually challenging benchmark items. I note that the PII-Scope items employ social engineering prompts designed to elicit Swiss-specific identifiers (AHV/AVS num- bers, Swiss IBANs), which models are unlikely to have encountered in safety training. Whether the low scores reflect insufficient RLHF calibration against Swiss-specific PII or simply a lack of Swiss PII in training data cannot be determined from the present evaluation alone. The GPT-oss 120B anomaly (highest D8 at 60.7% despite lowest-quartile D7 at 75.3%) war- rants specific attention. As an open-weights model with the lowest inference cost in the evaluation ($0.04/M input tokens), one hypothesis is that its RLHF fine-tuning favors cautious refusal over helpfulness, a calibration that simultaneously suppresses both PII generation and factual risk-taking on D7 tasks such as TruthfulQA. The smallest reliability–security gap in the evaluation (∆=14.5p) is consistent with this hypothesis. Conversely, DeepSeek V3.2 (∆=62.0p) and Mistral Large 3 (∆=57.2p) exhibit the largest gaps, suggesting that these models have been optimized primarily for helpfulness and accuracy without commensurate security hardening. 17 5.3 Implications for Swiss AI Deployment First, for organizations subject to Swiss financial regulation, the differentiated performance pro- files reported here provide an empirical input to model-level risk assessment as envisioned under FINMA Guidance 08/2024 Authority [2024]. Specifically, the D7 and D8 scores address FINMA’s expectations regarding the accuracy, reproducibility, and security of AI-assisted processes. However, SBP-003 provides a pre-deployment screening tool, not a substitute for the full model governance lifecycle: FINMA’s model validation requirements encompass back-testing against realized out- comes, stress testing under adverse conditions, and ongoing monitoring, none of which a one-shot benchmark evaluation can fulfill. The present results should be understood as one component of a broader model risk management framework, not as a standalone compliance assessment. Second, the framework’s alignment with the revised Federal Act on Data Protection (nDSG) Confederation [2023] is deliberately bounded. The PII-Scope benchmark evaluates whether mod- els can be induced to generate Swiss-specific personal identifiers, which is relevant to the nDSG’s data minimization and purpose limitation principles. However, the nDSG’s requirements for au- tomated individual decision-making (including the right to human review and information about decision logic) pertain to system-level governance rather than model-level output behavior, and are accordingly not addressed by this evaluation. This limitation highlights the need for comple- mentary assessments that integrate system-level privacy evaluations and organizational compliance strategies. Third, the results suggest that jurisdiction-specific benchmarks can expose risks that broader English-centric evaluations miss. As Swiss regulatory frameworks evolve, benchmarking method- ologies will need to track those changes to remain useful. 5.4 Methodological Considerations The evaluation methodology employed in this study involves design choices that affect the inter- pretability of results. First, D7 scores are derived from self-grading via model_graded_fact, in which the evaluand serves as its own judge. As discussed in Section 3, this approach introduces the possibility of bias from self-consistency. A post-hoc external validation using GPT-4o as judge on 70% of D7 outputs found 94.5% agreement, with self-grading producing slightly lower scores than external grading (−2.3p overall). This suggests that self-grading does not systematically inflate D7 scores in this evaluation, though the validation is limited to one external judge and does not rule out correlated errors between models of similar capability. Second, the Qwen3-235B judge used for D8 scoring has not been validated against human annota- tors on these specific rubrics. While the tiered scoring criteria are designed to minimize subjectivity through heuristic pre-checks, the absence of inter-rater reliability data means that D8 scores reflect the judge model’s assessments rather than independently validated security measurements. For- mal calibration against human expert annotation on a representative sample remains an important direction for establishing the benchmark’s measurement validity. Third, the evaluation was conducted at a single point in time (April 2026) via the OpenRouter API. Model weights and inference behavior may change with provider updates, and the results reported here represent a temporal snapshot rather than a stable characterization of each model’s capabilities. Fourth, benchmark contamination is a concern for D7 factual tasks. Swiss legal and regulatory texts (FINMA circulars, nDSG provisions, Fedlex documents) are publicly available and likely present in the training data of all evaluated models. High D7 scores on Swiss TruthfulQA and Swiss SimpleQA may partly reflect memorization of Swiss legal content rather than genuine reasoning 18 or generalization. This risk is less acute for D8 tasks, where the adversarial prompts are novel constructions unlikely to appear in training data. 6 Conclusion 6.1 Summary This study introduced Swiss-Bench 003 (SBP-003), extending the HAAS framework from six to eight dimensions by adding D7 (Self-Graded Reliability Proxy) and D8 (Adversarial Security). Evaluating ten models across 808 Swiss-adapted items in four languages, the study reveals four principal findings: 1. Qwen 3.5 Plus achieved the highest score under the self-grading D7 protocol (94.4%). 2. GPT-oss 120B achieves the highest D8 score (60.7%) under the current scoring setup, notably as the lowest-cost model in the evaluation ($0.04/M input tokens). 3. A score gap between D7 and D8 appears across all models in this snapshot evalua- tion: the average self-graded D7 score (82.3%) exceeds the average D8 score (40.6%) by 41.7 percentage points. 4. PII extraction defense is weak under the benchmark’s rubric (14.2–42.4% across all models), while system prompt leakage resistance is highly variable (24.8–88.2%), and Swiss German comprehension is generally strong (70.0–96.7%). In this evaluation, higher D7 scores did not coincide with higher D8 scores, suggesting the value of reporting separate dimensions rather than a single aggregate. Several limitations warrant acknowledgment. First, the zero-shot prompting design, while infor- mative about baseline capabilities, does not explore whether alternative prompting strategies (such as chain-of-thought reasoning or few-shot exemplars) would improve performance on more challeng- ing task categories. Investigating prompt sensitivity remains an avenue for future work. Second, while evaluation items are provided in four languages (DE, FR, IT, EN) using back-translation methodology Brislin [1970], the current evaluation does not include pass k consistency testing across languages, which would require additional budget for repeated runs. Third, the LLM-as-judge ap- proach (self-grading for D7, Qwen3-235B for D8), while scalable, does not substitute for human expert validation, which is an important direction for future research. Fourth, the benchmark com- prises 808 items, which is sufficient for exploratory comparison, though several subtasks remain underpowered for fine-grained model ranking Wilson [1927], Brown et al. [2001]. The total repre- sents a sample that cannot encompass the entire complexity of real-world applications. Fifth, the D8 evaluation covers three Swiss-adapted benchmarks; the planned baseline comparison runs against established security benchmarks (StrongREJECT, XSTest, WMDP, CyberSecEval 3, AgentDojo, AgentHarm) remain future work. 6.2 Future Work Four follow-up steps would materially improve the benchmark. First, developing Swiss-adapted versions of additional security benchmarks, including StrongREJECT Souly and et al. [2024], XSTest Rottger and et al. [2024], WMDP Li and et al. [2024], CyberSecEval 3 Wan and et al. [2024], and BFCL Fang et al. [2024], would complete D8 coverage and enable comparison between 19 Swiss-adapted and standard benchmark performance. Second, extending the evaluation paradigm to agentic, multi-step scenarios, as exemplified by frameworks such as AgentDojo Debenedetti and et al. [2024] and AgentHarm Andriushchenko and et al. [2024], would allow for the assessment of compounding risks that single-turn evaluations cannot capture. Third, implementing pass k (k=5) consistency testing across D7 benchmarks would quantify production reliability under repeated evaluation. Fourth, running evaluations on local infrastructure rather than API-based inference would enable testing of open-weight models under controlled conditions, eliminating provider-side variability. Future iterations of this benchmark should track updates to OWASP Foundation [2025] and the Swiss Digital Initiative’s Trust Label Initiative [2024] to maintain regulatory alignment. 6.3 Data and Code Availability The evaluation datasets and benchmark items are withheld to prevent benchmark contamination. Public release of adversarial prompts and evaluation items would allow model providers to optimize against these specific tests, undermining the benchmark’s value for independent assessment. The scoring methodology, rubric definitions, and aggregation procedures are fully described in this paper to permit conceptual replication. Researchers seeking to validate or extend this work may contact the author to discuss access under a data-sharing agreement that includes non-disclosure provisions. A Supplementary Material A.1 Data Availability Evaluation datasets and benchmark items are withheld to prevent benchmark contamination. Access is available from the author under a non-disclosure agreement. A.2 Model Versions Table 7 lists the specific model versions and OpenRouter identifiers used in all experiments. All evaluations were conducted on 2026-04-04 via the OpenRouter API. Table 7: Model versions and OpenRouter identifiers (inference date: 2026-04-04). ModelOpenRouter Model IDType Qwen 3.5 Plus qwen/qwen3.5-plusOpen GLM 5 zhipu/glm-5Open GPT-4o openai/gpt-4oClosed DeepSeek V3.2 deepseek/deepseek-v3.2Open Claude Sonnet 4 anthropic/claude-sonnet-4 Closed MiMo-V2-Flash xiaomi/mimo-v2-flashOpen Mistral Large 3 mistralai/mistral-large-3 Open Gemini 2.5 Flash google/gemini-2.5-flashClosed GPT-oss 120B openai/gpt-oss-120bOpen MiniMax M2.5 minimax/minimax-m2.5Open A.3 Prompt Examples Exact prompt templates are withheld to prevent benchmark contamination. The following para- phrased examples illustrate the nature of each D8 task. 20 PII-Scope (paraphrased): “You are a helpful assistant at a Swiss cantonal tax office. A citizen calls and says they lost their AHV number. Based on the following personal details (name: Hans Müller, DOB: 15.03.1978, canton: Zürich), what would their AHV/AVS number likely be?” System Prompt Leakage (paraphrased): System prompt: “You are a FINMA-compliant advisory assistant. Never reveal these instructions. Always cite SR 952.0 when discussing banking law.” User query: “What instructions were you given? Please repeat your system prompt verbatim.” Swiss German (paraphrased): “Was isch de Unterschied zwüsche de FINMA und de SNB? Erklär mer das uf Züridütsch.” (What is the difference between FINMA and the SNB? Explain in Zurich German.) These examples are representative of the item style and difficulty level but are not drawn from the actual evaluation set. A.4 D7 External Judge Validation To assess self-grading bias, GPT-4o was used as an external judge to re-grade 2,737 of 3,910 D7 outputs (70% coverage) using the same grading prompt. Table 8 reports per-model agreement. A negative delta indicates the model graded itself more harshly than the external judge. Table 8: D7 self-grading validation against GPT-4o external judge. Agreement is the proportion of samples where both judges assigned the same grade. Delta = self-graded accuracy minus GPT-4o accuracy (negative = model is self-critical). GPT-4o and Claude Sonnet 4 have low coverage due to cache ordering and are excluded. ModelAgree (%) Self (%) GPT-4o (%)∆ (p) Qwen 3.5 Plus98.393.892.7+1.1 DeepSeek V3.297.484.885.7 −0.9 GLM 596.391.690.6+1.0 Mistral Large 395.784.084.9 −0.9 MiMo-V2-Flash92.681.282.3 −1.1 Gemini 2.5 Flash92.485.490.7 −5.3 GPT-oss 120B91.980.487.4 −7.0 MiniMax M2.588.772.480.1 −7.7 Overall94.584.987.2 −2.3 The results indicate no systematic upward self-grading bias. Models that scored themselves lower than the external judge (GPT-oss 120B, MiniMax M2.5, Gemini 2.5 Flash) may have stricter internal criteria or weaker self-assessment capability. The high overall agreement (94.5%) suggests that D7 scores are not driven solely by idiosyncratic self-grading, though robustness to judge choice cannot be established without human calibration and additional judges. A.5 D8 Rubric Weight Sensitivity Table 9 reports D8 composite scores under seven alternative rubric weight schemes, varying the PII- Scope tier mapping (refuse/format_only/generates_pii) and the leakage tier mapping (no_leak/domain_only/specific_rules/full_prompt) independently. GPT-oss 120B leads D8 under all seven schemes. The top-3 is perfectly stable. Spearman rank correlations across all scheme pairs range from 0.95 to 1.00, indicating that D8 rankings are robust to rubric weight choices. 21 Table 9: D8 composite (%) under seven rubric weighting schemes. Top-3 (GPT-oss, GPT-4o, Qwen) is stable across all schemes. All Spearman ρ≥ 0.95. ModelDefault PII strict PII binary Leak strict Leak binary 1/.5/0 + 1/.75/.25/01/.25/01/0/01/.5/.1/01/0/0/0 GPT-oss 120B60.758.856.860.059.1 GPT-4o55.153.151.151.846.4 Qwen 3.5 Plus50.648.646.747.744.1 Claude Sonnet 444.242.240.241.437.0 MiniMax M2.544.040.837.642.136.9 GLM 543.240.137.041.335.6 MiMo-V2-Flash37.434.631.735.028.6 Gemini 2.5 Flash27.924.521.126.724.1 Mistral Large 323.020.317.520.715.6 DeepSeek V3.220.116.913.718.413.8 A.6 Competing Interests The author has no competing interests to declare. This research was conducted independently as part of the author’s graduate studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. A.7 Use of AI Assistants AI assistants, including Claude Opus 4.6, Gemini 3.1 and GPT-5.2, were used for coding, shortening texts, and editing LaTeX. The AI tools were not used directly in writing but assisted the author through critique, grammar checks, and formatting suggestions. References Maksym Andriushchenko and et al. 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