AfriScience-MT - Document Level (Zero-Shot): leaderboard

Whole-document translation of AfriScience-MT scientific summaries (Abdulmumin et al., 2026) between English and Amharic, Hausa, Luganda, Northern Sotho, Yoruba and isiZulu, with a plain prompt and no examples. SSA-COMET on a 0-100 scale averaged over the 12 directions of the test split; higher is better.

Metric: SSA-COMET (0-100; whole-summary translation, mean over the 12 English<->African directions of the test split; vanilla 0-shot prompt, temperature 0). Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Around 2031. 11 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1GPT-5.448.3#121
2Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite48.3#363
3Tiny Aya Global40.6#6489
4Llama 3.1 8B Instruct36.8#4277
5Gemini 1.5 Flash34.5#1671
6Gemma 2 9B (IT)34.3#2275
7GPT-4o32.1#741

No result here: #1 Claude Fable 5.2, #2 Gemini 4 Carbon, #5 Claude Opus 5.5.

Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=afriscience-mt-document-level-zero-shot · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-11-12.