AfriScience-MT (Zero-Shot) - Yoruba to English: leaderboard

Zero-shot sentence-level translation of scientific summaries from Yoruba into English on the AfriScience-MT test split (Abdulmumin et al., 2026). SSA-COMET, the African-language-tuned COMET, on a 0-100 scale; higher is better.

Metric: SSA-COMET (0-100; sentence-level yor->eng on the test split; zero-shot). Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Around March 2027. 15 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1GPT-5.466.2#121
2Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite57.9#363
3GPT-4o57.8#741
4Gemini 1.5 Flash54.8#1671
5Tiny Aya Global41.6#6489
6Llama 3.1 8B Instruct40.6#4277
7Gemma 2 9B (IT)39.9#2275

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-zero-shot-yoruba-to-english · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-11-12.