ArtECulture - English: leaderboard

Prediction of the emotion an artwork evokes in the English-speaking culture in ArtECulture (2026), zero-shot. Accuracy in percent, higher is better.

Metric: Accuracy (%; English-speaking culture labels; zero-shot prediction of the majority emotion (nine categories) that the target culture perceives in each of the 679 test artworks; original models without the authors retrieval knowledge or fine-tuning). Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Around 2031. 16 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1Gemma 4 31B (IT)59.35#343
2Claude Opus 4.859.2#56
3Gemini 3.5 Flash59.2#98
4Claude Sonnet 4.658.62#158
5GPT-5.558.62#48
6Gemini 3 Flash58.62#159
7Qwen 3.5 27B58.32#358
8Qwen 3.6 27B57.58#339
9Qwen 3.6 35B A3B55.38#461
10Qwen 3.5 9B55.23#803
11Gemma 3 12B (IT)53.76#1849
12Pixtral-12B52.72#2493

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

Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=arteculture-english · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-11-12.